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The future of physical money is at stake, and the discussion about DREX, the new digital currency planned by the Central Bank of Brazil, is gaining momentum. In a candid and intense conversation, Federal Deputy Julia Zanatta (PL/SC) discussed the challenges and risks of this digital transition, also addressing her Bill No. 3,341/2024, which aims to prevent the extinction of physical currency. This bill emerges as a direct response to legislative initiatives seeking to replace physical money with digital alternatives, limiting citizens' options and potentially compromising individual freedom. Let's delve into the main points of this conversation.

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What is a CBDC?

Before discussing the specifics of DREX, it’s important to understand what a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) is. CBDCs are digital currencies issued by central banks, similar to a digital version of physical money. Unlike cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, which operate in a decentralized manner, CBDCs are centralized and regulated by the government. In other words, they are digital currencies created and controlled by the Central Bank, intended to replace physical currency.

A prominent feature of CBDCs is their programmability. This means that the government can theoretically set rules about how, where, and for what this currency can be used. This aspect enables a level of control over citizens' finances that is impossible with physical money. By programming the currency, the government could limit transactions by setting geographical or usage restrictions. In practice, money within a CBDC could be restricted to specific spending or authorized for use in a defined geographical area.

In countries like China, where citizen actions and attitudes are also monitored, a person considered to have a "low score" due to a moral or ideological violation may have their transactions limited to essential purchases, restricting their digital currency use to non-essential activities. This financial control is strengthened because, unlike physical money, digital currency cannot be exchanged anonymously.

Practical Example: The Case of DREX During the Pandemic

To illustrate how DREX could be used, an example was given by Eric Altafim, director of Banco Itaú. He suggested that, if DREX had existed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government could have restricted the currency’s use to a 5-kilometer radius around a person’s residence, limiting their economic mobility. Another proposed use by the executive related to the Bolsa Família welfare program: the government could set up programming that only allows this benefit to be used exclusively for food purchases. Although these examples are presented as control measures for safety or organization, they demonstrate how much a CBDC could restrict citizens' freedom of choice.

To illustrate the potential for state control through a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), such as DREX, it is helpful to look at the example of China. In China, the implementation of a CBDC coincides with the country’s Social Credit System, a governmental surveillance tool that assesses citizens' and companies' behavior. Together, these technologies allow the Chinese government to monitor, reward, and, above all, punish behavior deemed inappropriate or threatening to the government.

How Does China's Social Credit System Work?

Implemented in 2014, China's Social Credit System assigns every citizen and company a "score" based on various factors, including financial behavior, criminal record, social interactions, and even online activities. This score determines the benefits or penalties each individual receives and can affect everything from public transport access to obtaining loans and enrolling in elite schools for their children. Citizens with low scores may face various sanctions, including travel restrictions, fines, and difficulty in securing loans.

With the adoption of the CBDC — or “digital yuan” — the Chinese government now has a new tool to closely monitor citizens' financial transactions, facilitating the application of Social Credit System penalties. China’s CBDC is a programmable digital currency, which means that the government can restrict how, when, and where the money can be spent. Through this level of control, digital currency becomes a powerful mechanism for influencing citizens' behavior.

Imagine, for instance, a citizen who repeatedly posts critical remarks about the government on social media or participates in protests. If the Social Credit System assigns this citizen a low score, the Chinese government could, through the CBDC, restrict their money usage in certain areas or sectors. For example, they could be prevented from buying tickets to travel to other regions, prohibited from purchasing certain consumer goods, or even restricted to making transactions only at stores near their home.

Another example of how the government can use the CBDC to enforce the Social Credit System is by monitoring purchases of products such as alcohol or luxury items. If a citizen uses the CBDC to spend more than the government deems reasonable on such products, this could negatively impact their social score, resulting in additional penalties such as future purchase restrictions or a lowered rating that impacts their personal and professional lives.

In China, this kind of control has already been demonstrated in several cases. Citizens added to Social Credit System “blacklists” have seen their spending and investment capacity severely limited. The combination of digital currency and social scores thus creates a sophisticated and invasive surveillance system, through which the Chinese government controls important aspects of citizens’ financial lives and individual freedoms.

Deputy Julia Zanatta views these examples with great concern. She argues that if the state has full control over digital money, citizens will be exposed to a level of economic control and surveillance never seen before. In a democracy, this control poses a risk, but in an authoritarian regime, it could be used as a powerful tool of repression.

DREX and Bill No. 3,341/2024

Julia Zanatta became aware of a bill by a Workers' Party (PT) deputy (Bill 4068/2020 by Deputy Reginaldo Lopes - PT/MG) that proposes the extinction of physical money within five years, aiming for a complete transition to DREX, the digital currency developed by the Central Bank of Brazil. Concerned about the impact of this measure, Julia drafted her bill, PL No. 3,341/2024, which prohibits the elimination of physical money, ensuring citizens the right to choose physical currency.

“The more I read about DREX, the less I want its implementation,” says the deputy. DREX is a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), similar to other state digital currencies worldwide, but which, according to Julia, carries extreme control risks. She points out that with DREX, the State could closely monitor each citizen’s transactions, eliminating anonymity and potentially restricting freedom of choice. This control would lie in the hands of the Central Bank, which could, in a crisis or government change, “freeze balances or even delete funds directly from user accounts.”

Risks and Individual Freedom

Julia raises concerns about potential abuses of power that complete digitalization could allow. In a democracy, state control over personal finances raises serious questions, and EddieOz warns of an even more problematic future. “Today we are in a democracy, but tomorrow, with a government transition, we don't know if this kind of power will be used properly or abused,” he states. In other words, DREX gives the State the ability to restrict or condition the use of money, opening the door to unprecedented financial surveillance.

EddieOz cites Nigeria as an example, where a CBDC was implemented, and the government imposed severe restrictions on the use of physical money to encourage the use of digital currency, leading to protests and clashes in the country. In practice, the poorest and unbanked — those without regular access to banking services — were harshly affected, as without physical money, many cannot conduct basic transactions. Julia highlights that in Brazil, this situation would be even more severe, given the large number of unbanked individuals and the extent of rural areas where access to technology is limited.

The Relationship Between DREX and Pix

The digital transition has already begun with Pix, which revolutionized instant transfers and payments in Brazil. However, Julia points out that Pix, though popular, is a citizen’s choice, while DREX tends to eliminate that choice. The deputy expresses concern about new rules suggested for Pix, such as daily transaction limits of a thousand reais, justified as anti-fraud measures but which, in her view, represent additional control and a profit opportunity for banks. “How many more rules will banks create to profit from us?” asks Julia, noting that DREX could further enhance control over personal finances.

International Precedents and Resistance to CBDC

The deputy also cites examples from other countries resisting the idea of a centralized digital currency. In the United States, states like New Hampshire have passed laws to prevent the advance of CBDCs, and leaders such as Donald Trump have opposed creating a national digital currency. Trump, addressing the topic, uses a justification similar to Julia’s: in a digitalized system, “with one click, your money could disappear.” She agrees with the warning, emphasizing the control risk that a CBDC represents, especially for countries with disadvantaged populations.

Besides the United States, Canada, Colombia, and Australia have also suspended studies on digital currencies, citing the need for further discussions on population impacts. However, in Brazil, the debate on DREX is still limited, with few parliamentarians and political leaders openly discussing the topic. According to Julia, only she and one or two deputies are truly trying to bring this discussion to the Chamber, making DREX’s advance even more concerning.

Bill No. 3,341/2024 and Popular Pressure

For Julia, her bill is a first step. Although she acknowledges that ideally, it would prevent DREX's implementation entirely, PL 3341/2024 is a measure to ensure citizens' choice to use physical money, preserving a form of individual freedom. “If the future means control, I prefer to live in the past,” Julia asserts, reinforcing that the fight for freedom is at the heart of her bill.

However, the deputy emphasizes that none of this will be possible without popular mobilization. According to her, popular pressure is crucial for other deputies to take notice and support PL 3341. “I am only one deputy, and we need the public’s support to raise the project’s visibility,” she explains, encouraging the public to press other parliamentarians and ask them to “pay attention to PL 3341 and the project that prohibits the end of physical money.” The deputy believes that with a strong awareness and pressure movement, it is possible to advance the debate and ensure Brazilians’ financial freedom.

What’s at Stake?

Julia Zanatta leaves no doubt: DREX represents a profound shift in how money will be used and controlled in Brazil. More than a simple modernization of the financial system, the Central Bank’s CBDC sets precedents for an unprecedented level of citizen surveillance and control in the country. For the deputy, this transition needs to be debated broadly and transparently, and it’s up to the Brazilian people to defend their rights and demand that the National Congress discuss these changes responsibly.

The deputy also emphasizes that, regardless of political or partisan views, this issue affects all Brazilians. “This agenda is something that will affect everyone. We need to be united to ensure people understand the gravity of what could happen.” Julia believes that by sharing information and generating open debate, it is possible to prevent Brazil from following the path of countries that have already implemented a digital currency in an authoritarian way.

A Call to Action

The future of physical money in Brazil is at risk. For those who share Deputy Julia Zanatta’s concerns, the time to act is now. Mobilize, get informed, and press your representatives. PL 3341/2024 is an opportunity to ensure that Brazilian citizens have a choice in how to use their money, without excessive state interference or surveillance.

In the end, as the deputy puts it, the central issue is freedom. “My fear is that this project will pass, and people won’t even understand what is happening.” Therefore, may every citizen at least have the chance to understand what’s at stake and make their voice heard in defense of a Brazil where individual freedom and privacy are respected values.

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Imagine sending a private message to a friend, only to learn that authorities could be scanning its contents without your knowledge. This isn't a scene from a dystopian novel but a potential reality under the European Union's proposed "Chat Control" measures. Aimed at combating serious crimes like child exploitation and terrorism, these proposals could significantly impact the privacy of everyday internet users. As encrypted messaging services become the norm for personal and professional communication, understanding Chat Control is essential. This article delves into what Chat Control entails, why it's being considered, and how it could affect your right to private communication.

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Sections:

• Introduction
• What Is Chat Control?
• Why Is the EU Pushing for Chat Control?
• The Privacy Concerns and Risks
• The Technical Debate: Encryption and Backdoors
• Global Reactions and the Debate in Europe
• Possible Consequences for Messaging Services
• What Happens Next? The Future of Chat Control
• Conclusion

What Is Chat Control?

"Chat Control" refers to a set of proposed measures by the European Union aimed at monitoring and scanning private communications on messaging platforms. The primary goal is to detect and prevent the spread of illegal content, such as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and to combat terrorism. While the intention is to enhance security and protect vulnerable populations, these proposals have raised significant privacy concerns.

At its core, Chat Control would require messaging services to implement automated scanning technologies that can analyze the content of messages—even those that are end-to-end encrypted. This means that the private messages you send to friends, family, or colleagues could be subject to inspection by algorithms designed to detect prohibited content.

Origins of the Proposal

The initiative for Chat Control emerged from the EU's desire to strengthen its digital security infrastructure. High-profile cases of online abuse and the use of encrypted platforms by criminal organizations have prompted lawmakers to consider more invasive surveillance tactics. The European Commission has been exploring legislation that would make it mandatory for service providers to monitor communications on their platforms.

How Messaging Services Work

Most modern messaging apps, like Signal, Session, SimpleX, Veilid, Protonmail and Tutanota (among others), use end-to-end encryption (E2EE). This encryption ensures that only the sender and the recipient can read the messages being exchanged. Not even the service providers can access the content. This level of security is crucial for maintaining privacy in digital communications, protecting users from hackers, identity thieves, and other malicious actors.

Key Elements of Chat Control

• Automated Content Scanning: Service providers would use algorithms to scan messages for illegal content.
• Circumvention of Encryption: To scan encrypted messages, providers might need to alter their encryption methods, potentially weakening security.
• Mandatory Reporting: If illegal content is detected, providers would be required to report it to authorities.
• Broad Applicability: The measures could apply to all messaging services operating within the EU, affecting both European companies and international platforms.

Why It Matters

Understanding Chat Control is essential because it represents a significant shift in how digital privacy is handled. While combating illegal activities online is crucial, the methods proposed could set a precedent for mass surveillance and the erosion of privacy rights. Everyday users who rely on encrypted messaging for personal and professional communication might find their conversations are no longer as private as they once thought.

Why Is the EU Pushing for Chat Control?

The European Union's push for Chat Control stems from a pressing concern to protect its citizens, particularly children, from online exploitation and criminal activities. With the digital landscape becoming increasingly integral to daily life, the EU aims to strengthen its ability to combat serious crimes facilitated through online platforms.

Protecting Children and Preventing Crime

One of the primary motivations behind Chat Control is the prevention of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) circulating on the internet. Law enforcement agencies have reported a significant increase in the sharing of illegal content through private messaging services. By implementing Chat Control, the EU believes it can more effectively identify and stop perpetrators, rescue victims, and deter future crimes.

Terrorism is another critical concern. Encrypted messaging apps can be used by terrorist groups to plan and coordinate attacks without detection. The EU argues that accessing these communications could be vital in preventing such threats and ensuring public safety.

Legal Context and Legislative Drivers

The push for Chat Control is rooted in several legislative initiatives:

• ePrivacy Directive: This directive regulates the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in electronic communications. The EU is considering amendments that would allow for the scanning of private messages under specific circumstances.

• Temporary Derogation: In 2021, the EU adopted a temporary regulation permitting voluntary detection of CSAM by communication services. The current proposals aim to make such measures mandatory and more comprehensive.

• Regulation Proposals: The European Commission has proposed regulations that would require service providers to detect, report, and remove illegal content proactively. This would include the use of technologies to scan private communications.

Balancing Security and Privacy

EU officials argue that the proposed measures are a necessary response to evolving digital threats. They emphasize the importance of staying ahead of criminals who exploit technology to harm others. By implementing Chat Control, they believe law enforcement can be more effective without entirely dismantling privacy protections.

However, the EU also acknowledges the need to balance security with fundamental rights. The proposals include provisions intended to limit the scope of surveillance, such as:

• Targeted Scanning: Focusing on specific threats rather than broad, indiscriminate monitoring.

• Judicial Oversight: Requiring court orders or oversight for accessing private communications.

• Data Protection Safeguards: Implementing measures to ensure that data collected is handled securely and deleted when no longer needed.

The Urgency Behind the Push

High-profile cases of online abuse and terrorism have heightened the sense of urgency among EU policymakers. Reports of increasing online grooming and the widespread distribution of illegal content have prompted calls for immediate action. The EU posits that without measures like Chat Control, these problems will continue to escalate unchecked.

Criticism and Controversy

Despite the stated intentions, the push for Chat Control has been met with significant criticism. Opponents argue that the measures could be ineffective against savvy criminals who can find alternative ways to communicate. There is also concern that such surveillance could be misused or extended beyond its original purpose.

The Privacy Concerns and Risks

While the intentions behind Chat Control focus on enhancing security and protecting vulnerable groups, the proposed measures raise significant privacy concerns. Critics argue that implementing such surveillance could infringe on fundamental rights and set a dangerous precedent for mass monitoring of private communications.

Infringement on Privacy Rights

At the heart of the debate is the right to privacy. By scanning private messages, even with automated tools, the confidentiality of personal communications is compromised. Users may no longer feel secure sharing sensitive information, fearing that their messages could be intercepted or misinterpreted by algorithms.

Erosion of End-to-End Encryption

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a cornerstone of digital security, ensuring that only the sender and recipient can read the messages exchanged. Chat Control could necessitate the introduction of "backdoors" or weaken encryption protocols, making it easier for unauthorized parties to access private data. This not only affects individual privacy but also exposes communications to potential cyber threats.

Concerns from Privacy Advocates

Organizations like Signal and Tutanota, which offer encrypted messaging services, have voiced strong opposition to Chat Control. They warn that undermining encryption could have far-reaching consequences:

• Security Risks: Weakening encryption makes systems more vulnerable to hacking, espionage, and cybercrime.
• Global Implications: Changes in EU regulations could influence policies worldwide, leading to a broader erosion of digital privacy.
• Ineffectiveness Against Crime: Determined criminals might resort to other, less detectable means of communication, rendering the measures ineffective while still compromising the privacy of law-abiding citizens.

Potential for Government Overreach

There is a fear that Chat Control could lead to increased surveillance beyond its original scope. Once the infrastructure for scanning private messages is in place, it could be repurposed or expanded to monitor other types of content, stifling free expression and dissent.

Real-World Implications for Users

• False Positives: Automated scanning technologies are not infallible and could mistakenly flag innocent content, leading to unwarranted scrutiny or legal consequences for users.
• Chilling Effect: Knowing that messages could be monitored might discourage people from expressing themselves freely, impacting personal relationships and societal discourse.
• Data Misuse: Collected data could be vulnerable to leaks or misuse, compromising personal and sensitive information.

Legal and Ethical Concerns

Privacy advocates also highlight potential conflicts with existing laws and ethical standards:

• Violation of Fundamental Rights: The European Convention on Human Rights and other international agreements protect the right to privacy and freedom of expression.
• Questionable Effectiveness: The ethical justification for such invasive measures is challenged if they do not significantly improve safety or if they disproportionately impact innocent users.

Opposition from Member States and Organizations

Countries like Germany and organizations such as the European Digital Rights (EDRi) have expressed opposition to Chat Control. They emphasize the need to protect digital privacy and caution against hasty legislation that could have unintended consequences.

The Technical Debate: Encryption and Backdoors

The discussion around Chat Control inevitably leads to a complex technical debate centered on encryption and the potential introduction of backdoors into secure communication systems. Understanding these concepts is crucial to grasping the full implications of the proposed measures.

What Is End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)?

End-to-end encryption is a method of secure communication that prevents third parties from accessing data while it's transferred from one end system to another. In simpler terms, only the sender and the recipient can read the messages. Even the service providers operating the messaging platforms cannot decrypt the content.

• Security Assurance: E2EE ensures that sensitive information—be it personal messages, financial details, or confidential business communications—remains private.
• Widespread Use: Popular messaging apps like Signal, Session, SimpleX, Veilid, Protonmail and Tutanota (among others) rely on E2EE to protect user data.

How Chat Control Affects Encryption

Implementing Chat Control as proposed would require messaging services to scan the content of messages for illegal material. To do this on encrypted platforms, providers might have to:

• Introduce Backdoors: Create a means for third parties (including the service provider or authorities) to access encrypted messages.
• Client-Side Scanning: Install software on users' devices that scans messages before they are encrypted and sent, effectively bypassing E2EE.

The Risks of Weakening Encryption

1. Compromised Security for All Users

Introducing backdoors or client-side scanning tools can create vulnerabilities:

• Exploitable Gaps: If a backdoor exists, malicious actors might find and exploit it, leading to data breaches.
• Universal Impact: Weakening encryption doesn't just affect targeted individuals; it potentially exposes all users to increased risk.

2. Undermining Trust in Digital Services

• User Confidence: Knowing that private communications could be accessed might deter people from using digital services or push them toward unregulated platforms.
• Business Implications: Companies relying on secure communications might face increased risks, affecting economic activities.

3. Ineffectiveness Against Skilled Adversaries

• Alternative Methods: Criminals might shift to other encrypted channels or develop new ways to avoid detection.
• False Sense of Security: Weakening encryption could give the impression of increased safety while adversaries adapt and continue their activities undetected.

Signal’s Response and Stance

Signal, a leading encrypted messaging service, has been vocal in its opposition to the EU's proposals:

• Refusal to Weaken Encryption: Signal's CEO Meredith Whittaker has stated that the company would rather cease operations in the EU than compromise its encryption standards.
• Advocacy for Privacy: Signal emphasizes that strong encryption is essential for protecting human rights and freedoms in the digital age.

Understanding Backdoors

A "backdoor" in encryption is an intentional weakness inserted into a system to allow authorized access to encrypted data. While intended for legitimate use by authorities, backdoors pose several problems:

• Security Vulnerabilities: They can be discovered and exploited by unauthorized parties, including hackers and foreign governments.
• Ethical Concerns: The existence of backdoors raises questions about consent and the extent to which governments should be able to access private communications.

The Slippery Slope Argument

Privacy advocates warn that introducing backdoors or mandatory scanning sets a precedent:

• Expanded Surveillance: Once in place, these measures could be extended to monitor other types of content beyond the original scope.
• Erosion of Rights: Gradual acceptance of surveillance can lead to a significant reduction in personal freedoms over time.

Potential Technological Alternatives

Some suggest that it's possible to fight illegal content without undermining encryption:

• Metadata Analysis: Focusing on patterns of communication rather than content.
• Enhanced Reporting Mechanisms: Encouraging users to report illegal content voluntarily.
• Investing in Law Enforcement Capabilities: Strengthening traditional investigative methods without compromising digital security.

Conclusion of the Technical Debate

The technical community largely agrees that weakening encryption is not the solution:

• Consensus on Security: Strong encryption is essential for the safety and privacy of all internet users.
• Call for Dialogue: Technologists and privacy experts advocate for collaborative approaches that address security concerns without sacrificing fundamental rights.

Global Reactions and the Debate in Europe

The proposal for Chat Control has ignited a heated debate across Europe and beyond, with various stakeholders weighing in on the potential implications for privacy, security, and fundamental rights. The reactions are mixed, reflecting differing national perspectives, political priorities, and societal values.

Support for Chat Control

Some EU member states and officials support the initiative, emphasizing the need for robust measures to combat online crime and protect citizens, especially children. They argue that:

• Enhanced Security: Mandatory scanning can help law enforcement agencies detect and prevent serious crimes.
• Responsibility of Service Providers: Companies offering communication services should play an active role in preventing their platforms from being used for illegal activities.
• Public Safety Priorities: The protection of vulnerable populations justifies the implementation of such measures, even if it means compromising some aspects of privacy.

Opposition within the EU

Several countries and organizations have voiced strong opposition to Chat Control, citing concerns over privacy rights and the potential for government overreach.

Germany

• Stance: Germany has been one of the most vocal opponents of the proposed measures.
• Reasons:
• Constitutional Concerns: The German government argues that Chat Control could violate constitutional protections of privacy and confidentiality of communications.
• Security Risks: Weakening encryption is seen as a threat to cybersecurity.
• Legal Challenges: Potential conflicts with national laws protecting personal data and communication secrecy.

Netherlands

• Recent Developments: The Dutch government decided against supporting Chat Control, emphasizing the importance of encryption for security and privacy.
• Arguments:
• Effectiveness Doubts: Skepticism about the actual effectiveness of the measures in combating crime.
• Negative Impact on Privacy: Concerns about mass surveillance and the infringement of citizens' rights.

Table reference: Patrick Breyer - Chat Control in 23 September 2024

Privacy Advocacy Groups

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

• Role: A network of civil and human rights organizations working to defend rights and freedoms in the digital environment.
• Position:
• Strong Opposition: EDRi argues that Chat Control is incompatible with fundamental rights.
• Awareness Campaigns: Engaging in public campaigns to inform citizens about the potential risks.
• Policy Engagement: Lobbying policymakers to consider alternative approaches that respect privacy.

Politicians and Activists

Patrick Breyer

• Background: A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany, representing the Pirate Party.
• Actions:
• Advocacy: Actively campaigning against Chat Control through speeches, articles, and legislative efforts.
• Public Outreach: Using social media and public events to raise awareness.
• Legal Expertise: Highlighting the legal inconsistencies and potential violations of EU law.

Global Reactions

International Organizations

• Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International: These organizations have expressed concerns about the implications for human rights, urging the EU to reconsider.

Technology Companies

• Global Tech Firms: Companies like Apple and Microsoft are monitoring the situation, as EU regulations could affect their operations and user trust.
• Industry Associations: Groups representing tech companies have issued statements highlighting the risks to innovation and competitiveness.

The Broader Debate

The controversy over Chat Control reflects a broader struggle between security interests and privacy rights in the digital age. Key points in the debate include:

• Legal Precedents: How the EU's decision might influence laws and regulations in other countries.
• Digital Sovereignty: The desire of nations to control digital spaces within their borders.
• Civil Liberties: The importance of protecting freedoms in the face of technological advancements.

Public Opinion

• Diverse Views: Surveys and public forums show a range of opinions, with some citizens prioritizing security and others valuing privacy above all.
• Awareness Levels: Many people are still unaware of the potential changes, highlighting the need for public education on the issue.

Conclusion of the Debate

The EU is at a crossroads, facing the challenge of addressing legitimate security concerns without undermining the fundamental rights that are central to its values. The outcome of this debate will have significant implications for the future of digital privacy and the balance between security and freedom in society.

Possible Consequences for Messaging Services

The implementation of Chat Control could have significant implications for messaging services operating within the European Union. Both large platforms and smaller providers might need to adapt their technologies and policies to comply with the new regulations, potentially altering the landscape of digital communication.

Impact on Encrypted Messaging Services

Signal and Similar Platforms

• Compliance Challenges: Encrypted messaging services like Signal rely on end-to-end encryption to secure user communications. Complying with Chat Control could force them to weaken their encryption protocols or implement client-side scanning, conflicting with their core privacy principles.

• Operational Decisions: Some platforms may choose to limit their services in the EU or cease operations altogether rather than compromise on encryption. Signal, for instance, has indicated that it would prefer to withdraw from European markets than undermine its security features.

Potential Blocking or Limiting of Services

• Regulatory Enforcement: Messaging services that do not comply with Chat Control regulations could face fines, legal action, or even be blocked within the EU.

• Access Restrictions: Users in Europe might find certain services unavailable or limited in functionality if providers decide not to meet the regulatory requirements.

Effects on Smaller Providers

• Resource Constraints: Smaller messaging services and startups may lack the resources to implement the required scanning technologies, leading to increased operational costs or forcing them out of the market.

• Innovation Stifling: The added regulatory burden could deter new entrants, reducing competition and innovation in the messaging service sector.

User Experience and Trust

• Privacy Concerns: Users may lose trust in messaging platforms if they know their communications are subject to scanning, leading to a decline in user engagement.

• Migration to Unregulated Platforms: There is a risk that users might shift to less secure or unregulated services, including those operated outside the EU or on the dark web, potentially exposing them to greater risks.

Technical and Security Implications

• Increased Vulnerabilities: Modifying encryption protocols to comply with Chat Control could introduce security flaws, making platforms more susceptible to hacking and data breaches.

• Global Security Risks: Changes made to accommodate EU regulations might affect the global user base of these services, extending security risks beyond European borders.

Impact on Businesses and Professional Communications

• Confidentiality Issues: Businesses that rely on secure messaging for sensitive communications may face challenges in ensuring confidentiality, affecting sectors like finance, healthcare, and legal services.

• Compliance Complexity: Companies operating internationally will need to navigate a complex landscape of differing regulations, increasing administrative burdens.

Economic Consequences

• Market Fragmentation: Divergent regulations could lead to a fragmented market, with different versions of services for different regions.

• Loss of Revenue: Messaging services might experience reduced revenue due to decreased user trust and engagement or the costs associated with compliance.

Responses from Service Providers

• Legal Challenges: Companies might pursue legal action against the regulations, citing conflicts with privacy laws and user rights.

• Policy Advocacy: Service providers may increase lobbying efforts to influence policy decisions and promote alternatives to Chat Control.

Possible Adaptations

• Technological Innovation: Some providers might invest in developing new technologies that can detect illegal content without compromising encryption, though the feasibility remains uncertain.

• Transparency Measures: To maintain user trust, companies might enhance transparency about how data is handled and what measures are in place to protect privacy.

Summary of Consequences

The potential consequences of Chat Control for messaging services are profound, affecting not only the companies that provide these services but also the users who rely on them daily. The balance between complying with legal requirements and maintaining user privacy and security presents a significant challenge that could reshape the digital communication landscape.

What Happens Next? The Future of Chat Control

The future of Chat Control remains uncertain as the debate continues among EU member states, policymakers, technology companies, and civil society organizations. Several factors will influence the outcome of this contentious proposal, each carrying significant implications for digital privacy, security, and the regulatory environment within the European Union.

Current Status of Legislation

• Ongoing Negotiations: The proposed Chat Control measures are still under discussion within the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. Amendments and revisions are being considered in response to the feedback from various stakeholders.

• Timeline: While there is no fixed date for the final decision, the EU aims to reach a consensus to implement effective measures against online crime without undue delay.

Key Influencing Factors

1. Legal Challenges and Compliance with EU Law

• Fundamental Rights Assessment: The proposals must be evaluated against the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, ensuring that any measures comply with rights to privacy, data protection, and freedom of expression.

• Court Scrutiny: Potential legal challenges could arise, leading to scrutiny by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which may impact the feasibility and legality of Chat Control.

2. Technological Feasibility

• Development of Privacy-Preserving Technologies: Research into methods that can detect illegal content without compromising encryption is ongoing. Advances in this area could provide alternative solutions acceptable to both privacy advocates and security agencies.

• Implementation Challenges: The practical aspects of deploying scanning technologies across various platforms and services remain complex, and technical hurdles could delay or alter the proposed measures.

3. Political Dynamics

• Member State Positions: The differing stances of EU countries, such as Germany's opposition, play a significant role in shaping the final outcome. Consensus among member states is crucial for adopting EU-wide regulations.

• Public Opinion and Advocacy: Growing awareness and activism around digital privacy can influence policymakers. Public campaigns and lobbying efforts may sway decisions in favor of stronger privacy protections.

4. Industry Responses

• Negotiations with Service Providers: Ongoing dialogues between EU authorities and technology companies may lead to compromises or collaborative efforts to address concerns without fully implementing Chat Control as initially proposed.

• Potential for Self-Regulation: Messaging services might propose self-regulatory measures to combat illegal content, aiming to demonstrate effectiveness without the need for mandatory scanning.

Possible Scenarios

Optimistic Outcome:

• Balanced Regulation: A revised proposal emerges that effectively addresses security concerns while upholding strong encryption and privacy rights, possibly through innovative technologies or targeted measures with robust oversight.

Pessimistic Outcome:

• Adoption of Strict Measures: Chat Control is implemented as initially proposed, leading to weakened encryption, reduced privacy, and potential withdrawal of services like Signal from the EU market.

Middle Ground:

• Incremental Implementation: Partial measures are adopted, focusing on voluntary cooperation with service providers and emphasizing transparency and user consent, with ongoing evaluations to assess effectiveness and impact.

How to Stay Informed and Protect Your Privacy

• Follow Reputable Sources: Keep up with news from reliable outlets, official EU communications, and statements from privacy organizations to stay informed about developments.

• Engage in the Dialogue: Participate in public consultations, sign petitions, or contact representatives to express your views on Chat Control and digital privacy.

• Utilize Secure Practices: Regardless of legislative outcomes, adopting good digital hygiene—such as using strong passwords and being cautious with personal information—can enhance your online security.

The Global Perspective

• International Implications: The EU's decision may influence global policies on encryption and surveillance, setting precedents that other countries might follow or react against.

• Collaboration Opportunities: International cooperation on developing solutions that protect both security and privacy could emerge, fostering a more unified approach to addressing online threats.

Looking Ahead

The future of Chat Control is a critical issue that underscores the challenges of governing in the digital age. Balancing the need for security with the protection of fundamental rights is a complex task that requires careful consideration, open dialogue, and collaboration among all stakeholders.

As the situation evolves, staying informed and engaged is essential. The decisions made in the coming months will shape the digital landscape for years to come, affecting how we communicate, conduct business, and exercise our rights in an increasingly connected world.

Conclusion

The debate over Chat Control highlights a fundamental challenge in our increasingly digital world: how to protect society from genuine threats without eroding the very rights and freedoms that define it. While the intention to safeguard children and prevent crime is undeniably important, the means of achieving this through intrusive surveillance measures raise critical concerns.

Privacy is not just a personal preference but a cornerstone of democratic societies. End-to-end encryption has become an essential tool for ensuring that our personal conversations, professional communications, and sensitive data remain secure from unwanted intrusion. Weakening these protections could expose individuals and organizations to risks that far outweigh the proposed benefits.

The potential consequences of implementing Chat Control are far-reaching:

• Erosion of Trust: Users may lose confidence in digital platforms, impacting how we communicate and conduct business online.
• Security Vulnerabilities: Introducing backdoors or weakening encryption can make systems more susceptible to cyberattacks.
• Stifling Innovation: Regulatory burdens may hinder technological advancement and competitiveness in the tech industry.
• Global Implications: The EU's decisions could set precedents that influence digital policies worldwide, for better or worse.

As citizens, it's crucial to stay informed about these developments. Engage in conversations, reach out to your representatives, and advocate for solutions that respect both security needs and fundamental rights. Technology and policy can evolve together to address challenges without compromising core values.

The future of Chat Control is not yet decided, and public input can make a significant difference. By promoting open dialogue, supporting privacy-preserving innovations, and emphasizing the importance of human rights in legislation, we can work towards a digital landscape that is both safe and free.

In a world where digital communication is integral to daily life, striking the right balance between security and privacy is more important than ever. The choices made today will shape the digital environment for generations to come, determining not just how we communicate, but how we live and interact in an interconnected world.

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Thank you for reading this article. We hope it has provided you with a clear understanding of Chat Control and its potential impact on your privacy and digital rights. Stay informed, stay engaged, and let's work together towards a secure and open digital future.

Read more:

• https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
• https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/new-eu-push-for-chat-control-will-messenger-services-be-blocked-in-europe/
• https://edri.org/our-work/dutch-decision-puts-brakes-on-chat-control/
• https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf
• https://tuta.com/blog/germany-stop-chat-control
• https://cointelegraph.com/news/signal-president-slams-revised-eu-encryption-proposal
• https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters

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O que é Cwtch? Cwtch (/kʊtʃ/ - uma palavra galesa que pode ser traduzida aproximadamente como “um abraço que cria um lugar seguro”) é um protocolo de mensagens multipartidário descentralizado, que preserva a privacidade, que pode ser usado para construir aplicativos resistentes a metadados.

Como posso pronunciar Cwtch? Como "kutch", para rimar com "butch".

Descentralizado e Aberto : Não existe “serviço Cwtch” ou “rede Cwtch”. Os participantes do Cwtch podem hospedar seus próprios espaços seguros ou emprestar sua infraestrutura para outras pessoas que buscam um espaço seguro. O protocolo Cwtch é aberto e qualquer pessoa é livre para criar bots, serviços e interfaces de usuário e integrar e interagir com o Cwtch.

Preservação de privacidade : toda a comunicação no Cwtch é criptografada de ponta a ponta e ocorre nos serviços cebola Tor v3.

Resistente a metadados : O Cwtch foi projetado de forma que nenhuma informação seja trocada ou disponibilizada a ninguém sem seu consentimento explícito, incluindo mensagens durante a transmissão e metadados de protocolo

Uma breve história do bate-papo resistente a metadados Nos últimos anos, a conscientização pública sobre a necessidade e os benefícios das soluções criptografadas de ponta a ponta aumentou com aplicativos como Signal , Whatsapp e Wire. que agora fornecem aos usuários comunicações seguras.

No entanto, essas ferramentas exigem vários níveis de exposição de metadados para funcionar, e muitos desses metadados podem ser usados ​​para obter detalhes sobre como e por que uma pessoa está usando uma ferramenta para se comunicar.

Uma ferramenta que buscou reduzir metadados é o Ricochet lançado pela primeira vez em 2014. Ricochet usou os serviços cebola Tor v2 para fornecer comunicação criptografada segura de ponta a ponta e para proteger os metadados das comunicações.

Não havia servidores centralizados que auxiliassem no roteamento das conversas do Ricochet. Ninguém além das partes envolvidas em uma conversa poderia saber que tal conversa está ocorrendo.

Ricochet tinha limitações; não havia suporte para vários dispositivos, nem existe um mecanismo para suportar a comunicação em grupo ou para um usuário enviar mensagens enquanto um contato está offline.

Isto tornou a adoção do Ricochet uma proposta difícil; mesmo aqueles em ambientes que seriam melhor atendidos pela resistência aos metadados, sem saber que ela existe.

Além disso, qualquer solução para comunicação descentralizada e resistente a metadados enfrenta problemas fundamentais quando se trata de eficiência, privacidade e segurança de grupo conforme definido pelo consenso e consistência da transcrição.

Alternativas modernas ao Ricochet incluem Briar , Zbay e Ricochet Refresh - cada ferramenta procura otimizar para um conjunto diferente de compensações, por exemplo, Briar procura permitir que as pessoas se comuniquem mesmo quando a infraestrutura de rede subjacente está inoperante, ao mesmo tempo que fornece resistência à vigilância de metadados.

O projeto Cwtch começou em 2017 como um protocolo de extensão para Ricochet, fornecendo conversas em grupo por meio de servidores não confiáveis, com o objetivo de permitir aplicativos descentralizados e resistentes a metadados como listas compartilhadas e quadros de avisos.

Uma versão alfa do Cwtch foi lançada em fevereiro de 2019 e, desde então, a equipe do Cwtch dirigida pela OPEN PRIVACY RESEARCH SOCIETY conduziu pesquisa e desenvolvimento em cwtch e nos protocolos, bibliotecas e espaços de problemas subjacentes.

Modelo de Risco.

Sabe-se que os metadados de comunicações são explorados por vários adversários para minar a segurança dos sistemas, para rastrear vítimas e para realizar análises de redes sociais em grande escala para alimentar a vigilância em massa. As ferramentas resistentes a metadados estão em sua infância e faltam pesquisas sobre a construção e a experiência do usuário de tais ferramentas.

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O Cwtch foi originalmente concebido como uma extensão do protocolo Ricochet resistente a metadados para suportar comunicações assíncronas de grupos multiponto por meio do uso de infraestrutura anônima, descartável e não confiável.

Desde então, o Cwtch evoluiu para um protocolo próprio. Esta seção descreverá os vários riscos conhecidos que o Cwtch tenta mitigar e será fortemente referenciado no restante do documento ao discutir os vários subcomponentes da Arquitetura Cwtch.

Modelo de ameaça.

É importante identificar e compreender que os metadados são omnipresentes nos protocolos de comunicação; é de facto necessário que tais protocolos funcionem de forma eficiente e em escala. No entanto, as informações que são úteis para facilitar peers e servidores também são altamente relevantes para adversários que desejam explorar tais informações.

Para a definição do nosso problema, assumiremos que o conteúdo de uma comunicação é criptografado de tal forma que um adversário é praticamente incapaz de quebrá-lo veja tapir e cwtch para detalhes sobre a criptografia que usamos, e como tal nos concentraremos em o contexto para os metadados de comunicação.

Procuramos proteger os seguintes contextos de comunicação:

• Quem está envolvido em uma comunicação? Pode ser possível identificar pessoas ou simplesmente identificadores de dispositivos ou redes. Por exemplo, “esta comunicação envolve Alice, uma jornalista, e Bob, um funcionário público”.

• Onde estão os participantes da conversa? Por exemplo, “durante esta comunicação, Alice estava na França e Bob estava no Canadá”.

• Quando ocorreu uma conversa? O momento e a duração da comunicação podem revelar muito sobre a natureza de uma chamada, por exemplo, “Bob, um funcionário público, conversou com Alice ao telefone por uma hora ontem à noite. Esta é a primeira vez que eles se comunicam.” *Como a conversa foi mediada? O fato de uma conversa ter ocorrido por meio de um e-mail criptografado ou não criptografado pode fornecer informações úteis. Por exemplo, “Alice enviou um e-mail criptografado para Bob ontem, enquanto eles normalmente enviam apenas e-mails de texto simples um para o outro”.

• Sobre o que é a conversa? Mesmo que o conteúdo da comunicação seja criptografado, às vezes é possível derivar um contexto provável de uma conversa sem saber exatamente o que é dito, por exemplo, “uma pessoa ligou para uma pizzaria na hora do jantar” ou “alguém ligou para um número conhecido de linha direta de suicídio na hora do jantar”. 3 horas da manhã."

Além das conversas individuais, também procuramos defender-nos contra ataques de correlação de contexto, através dos quais múltiplas conversas são analisadas para obter informações de nível superior:

• Relacionamentos: Descobrir relações sociais entre um par de entidades analisando a frequência e a duração de suas comunicações durante um período de tempo. Por exemplo, Carol e Eve ligam uma para a outra todos os dias durante várias horas seguidas.

• Cliques: Descobrir relações sociais entre um grupo de entidades que interagem entre si. Por exemplo, Alice, Bob e Eva se comunicam entre si.

• Grupos vagamente conectados e indivíduos-ponte: descobrir grupos que se comunicam entre si através de intermediários, analisando cadeias de comunicação (por exemplo, toda vez que Alice fala com Bob, ela fala com Carol quase imediatamente depois; Bob e Carol nunca se comunicam).

• Padrão de Vida: Descobrir quais comunicações são cíclicas e previsíveis. Por exemplo, Alice liga para Eve toda segunda-feira à noite por cerca de uma hora. Ataques Ativos

Ataques de deturpação.

O Cwtch não fornece registro global de nomes de exibição e, como tal, as pessoas que usam o Cwtch são mais vulneráveis ​​a ataques baseados em declarações falsas, ou seja, pessoas que fingem ser outras pessoas:

O fluxo básico de um desses ataques é o seguinte, embora também existam outros fluxos:

•Alice tem um amigo chamado Bob e outro chamado Eve

• Eve descobre que Alice tem um amigo chamado Bob

• Eve cria milhares de novas contas para encontrar uma que tenha uma imagem/chave pública semelhante à de Bob (não será idêntica, mas pode enganar alguém por alguns minutos)

• Eve chama essa nova conta de "Eve New Account" e adiciona Alice como amiga.

• Eve então muda seu nome em "Eve New Account" para "Bob"

• Alice envia mensagens destinadas a "Bob" para a conta falsa de Bob de Eve Como os ataques de declarações falsas são inerentemente uma questão de confiança e verificação, a única maneira absoluta de evitá-los é os usuários validarem absolutamente a chave pública. Obviamente, isso não é o ideal e, em muitos casos, simplesmente não acontecerá .

Como tal, pretendemos fornecer algumas dicas de experiência do usuário na interface do usuário para orientar as pessoas na tomada de decisões sobre confiar em contas e/ou distinguir contas que possam estar tentando se representar como outros usuários.

Uma nota sobre ataques físicos A Cwtch não considera ataques que exijam acesso físico (ou equivalente) à máquina do usuário como praticamente defensáveis. No entanto, no interesse de uma boa engenharia de segurança, ao longo deste documento ainda nos referiremos a ataques ou condições que exigem tal privilégio e indicaremos onde quaisquer mitigações que implementámos falharão.

Um perfil Cwtch.

Os usuários podem criar um ou mais perfis Cwtch. Cada perfil gera um par de chaves ed25519 aleatório compatível com Tor.

Além do material criptográfico, um perfil também contém uma lista de Contatos (outras chaves públicas do perfil Cwtch + dados associados sobre esse perfil, como apelido e (opcionalmente) mensagens históricas), uma lista de Grupos (contendo o material criptográfico do grupo, além de outros dados associados, como apelido do grupo e mensagens históricas).

Conversões entre duas partes: ponto a ponto

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Para que duas partes participem de uma conversa ponto a ponto, ambas devem estar on-line, mas apenas uma precisa estar acessível por meio do serviço Onion. Por uma questão de clareza, muitas vezes rotulamos uma parte como “ponto de entrada” (aquele que hospeda o serviço cebola) e a outra parte como “ponto de saída” (aquele que se conecta ao serviço cebola).

Após a conexão, ambas as partes adotam um protocolo de autenticação que:

• Afirma que cada parte tem acesso à chave privada associada à sua identidade pública.

• Gera uma chave de sessão efêmera usada para criptografar todas as comunicações futuras durante a sessão.

Esta troca (documentada com mais detalhes no protocolo de autenticação ) é negável offline , ou seja, é possível para qualquer parte falsificar transcrições desta troca de protocolo após o fato e, como tal - após o fato - é impossível provar definitivamente que a troca aconteceu de forma alguma.

Após o protocolo de autenticação, as duas partes podem trocar mensagens livremente.

Conversas em Grupo e Comunicação Ponto a Servidor

Ao iniciar uma conversa em grupo, é gerada uma chave aleatória para o grupo, conhecida como Group Key. Todas as comunicações do grupo são criptografadas usando esta chave. Além disso, o criador do grupo escolhe um servidor Cwtch para hospedar o grupo. Um convite é gerado, incluindo o Group Key, o servidor do grupo e a chave do grupo, para ser enviado aos potenciais membros.

Para enviar uma mensagem ao grupo, um perfil se conecta ao servidor do grupo e criptografa a mensagem usando a Group Key, gerando também uma assinatura sobre o Group ID, o servidor do grupo e a mensagem. Para receber mensagens do grupo, um perfil se conecta ao servidor e baixa as mensagens, tentando descriptografá-las usando a Group Key e verificando a assinatura.

Detalhamento do Ecossistema de Componentes

O Cwtch é composto por várias bibliotecas de componentes menores, cada uma desempenhando um papel específico. Algumas dessas bibliotecas incluem:

• abertoprivacidade/conectividade: Abstração de rede ACN, atualmente suportando apenas Tor.
• cwtch.im/tapir: Biblioteca para construção de aplicativos p2p em sistemas de comunicação anônimos.
• cwtch.im/cwtch: Biblioteca principal para implementação do protocolo/sistema Cwtch.
• cwtch.im/libcwtch-go: Fornece ligações C para Cwtch para uso em implementações de UI.

TAPIR: Uma Visão Detalhada

Projetado para substituir os antigos canais de ricochete baseados em protobuf, o Tapir fornece uma estrutura para a construção de aplicativos anônimos.

Está dividido em várias camadas:

• Identidade - Um par de chaves ed25519, necessário para estabelecer um serviço cebola Tor v3 e usado para manter uma identidade criptográfica consistente para um par.

• Conexões – O protocolo de rede bruto que conecta dois pares. Até agora, as conexões são definidas apenas através do Tor v3 Onion Services.

• Aplicativos - As diversas lógicas que permitem um determinado fluxo de informações em uma conexão. Os exemplos incluem transcrições criptográficas compartilhadas, autenticação, proteção contra spam e serviços baseados em tokens. Os aplicativos fornecem recursos que podem ser referenciados por outros aplicativos para determinar se um determinado peer tem a capacidade de usar um determinado aplicativo hospedado.

• Pilhas de aplicativos - Um mecanismo para conectar mais de um aplicativo, por exemplo, a autenticação depende de uma transcrição criptográfica compartilhada e o aplicativo peer cwtch principal é baseado no aplicativo de autenticação.

Identidade.

Um par de chaves ed25519, necessário para estabelecer um serviço cebola Tor v3 e usado para manter uma identidade criptográfica consistente para um peer.

InitializeIdentity - de um par de chaves conhecido e persistente:i,I

InitializeEphemeralIdentity - de um par de chaves aleatório: ie,Ie

Aplicativos de transcrição.

Inicializa uma transcrição criptográfica baseada em Merlin que pode ser usada como base de protocolos baseados em compromisso de nível superior

O aplicativo de transcrição entrará em pânico se um aplicativo tentar substituir uma transcrição existente por uma nova (aplicando a regra de que uma sessão é baseada em uma e apenas uma transcrição).

Merlin é uma construção de transcrição baseada em STROBE para provas de conhecimento zero. Ele automatiza a transformação Fiat-Shamir, para que, usando Merlin, protocolos não interativos possam ser implementados como se fossem interativos.

Isto é significativamente mais fácil e menos sujeito a erros do que realizar a transformação manualmente e, além disso, também fornece suporte natural para:

• protocolos multi-round com fases alternadas de commit e desafio;

• separação natural de domínios, garantindo que os desafios estejam vinculados às afirmações a serem provadas;

• enquadramento automático de mensagens, evitando codificação ambígua de dados de compromisso;

• e composição do protocolo, usando uma transcrição comum para vários protocolos.

Finalmente, o Merlin também fornece um gerador de números aleatórios baseado em transcrição como defesa profunda contra ataques de entropia ruim (como reutilização de nonce ou preconceito em muitas provas). Este RNG fornece aleatoriedade sintética derivada de toda a transcrição pública, bem como dos dados da testemunha do provador e uma entrada auxiliar de um RNG externo.

Conectividade Cwtch faz uso do Tor Onion Services (v3) para todas as comunicações entre nós.

Fornecemos o pacote openprivacy/connectivity para gerenciar o daemon Tor e configurar e desmontar serviços cebola através do Tor.

Criptografia e armazenamento de perfil.

Os perfis são armazenados localmente no disco e criptografados usando uma chave derivada de uma senha conhecida pelo usuário (via pbkdf2).

Observe que, uma vez criptografado e armazenado em disco, a única maneira de recuperar um perfil é recuperando a senha - como tal, não é possível fornecer uma lista completa de perfis aos quais um usuário pode ter acesso até inserir uma senha.

Perfis não criptografados e a senha padrão Para lidar com perfis "não criptografados" (ou seja, que não exigem senha para serem abertos), atualmente criamos um perfil com uma senha codificada de fato .

Isso não é o ideal, preferiríamos confiar no material de chave fornecido pelo sistema operacional, de modo que o perfil fosse vinculado a um dispositivo específico, mas esses recursos são atualmente uma colcha de retalhos - também notamos, ao criar um perfil não criptografado, pessoas que usam Cwtch estão explicitamente optando pelo risco de que alguém com acesso ao sistema de arquivos possa descriptografar seu perfil.

Vulnerabilidades Relacionadas a Imagens e Entrada de Dados

Imagens Maliciosas

O Cwtch enfrenta desafios na renderização de imagens, com o Flutter utilizando Skia, embora o código subjacente não seja totalmente seguro para a memória.

Realizamos testes de fuzzing nos componentes Cwtch e encontramos um bug de travamento causado por um arquivo GIF malformado, levando a falhas no kernel. Para mitigar isso, adotamos a política de sempre habilitar cacheWidth e/ou cacheHeight máximo para widgets de imagem.

Identificamos o risco de imagens maliciosas serem renderizadas de forma diferente em diferentes plataformas, como evidenciado por um bug no analisador PNG da Apple.

Riscos de Entrada de Dados

Um risco significativo é a interceptação de conteúdo ou metadados por meio de um Input Method Editor (IME) em dispositivos móveis. Mesmo aplicativos IME padrão podem expor dados por meio de sincronização na nuvem, tradução online ou dicionários pessoais.

Implementamos medidas de mitigação, como enableIMEPersonalizedLearning: false no Cwtch 1.2, mas a solução completa requer ações em nível de sistema operacional e é um desafio contínuo para a segurança móvel.

Servidor Cwtch.

O objetivo do protocolo Cwtch é permitir a comunicação em grupo através de infraestrutura não confiável .

Ao contrário dos esquemas baseados em retransmissão, onde os grupos atribuem um líder, um conjunto de líderes ou um servidor confiável de terceiros para garantir que cada membro do grupo possa enviar e receber mensagens em tempo hábil (mesmo que os membros estejam offline) - infraestrutura não confiável tem o objetivo de realizar essas propriedades sem a suposição de confiança.

O artigo original do Cwtch definia um conjunto de propriedades que se esperava que os servidores Cwtch fornecessem:

• O Cwtch Server pode ser usado por vários grupos ou apenas um.

• Um servidor Cwtch, sem a colaboração de um membro do grupo, nunca deve aprender a identidade dos participantes de um grupo.

• Um servidor Cwtch nunca deve aprender o conteúdo de qualquer comunicação.

• Um servidor Cwtch nunca deve ser capaz de distinguir mensagens como pertencentes a um grupo específico. Observamos aqui que essas propriedades são um superconjunto dos objetivos de design das estruturas de Recuperação de Informações Privadas.

Melhorias na Eficiência e Segurança

Eficiência do Protocolo

Atualmente, apenas um protocolo conhecido, o PIR ingênuo, atende às propriedades desejadas para garantir a privacidade na comunicação do grupo Cwtch. Este método tem um impacto direto na eficiência da largura de banda, especialmente para usuários em dispositivos móveis. Em resposta a isso, estamos ativamente desenvolvendo novos protocolos que permitem negociar garantias de privacidade e eficiência de maneiras diversas.

Os servidores, no momento desta escrita, permitem o download completo de todas as mensagens armazenadas, bem como uma solicitação para baixar mensagens específicas a partir de uma determinada mensagem. Quando os pares ingressam em um grupo em um novo servidor, eles baixam todas as mensagens do servidor inicialmente e, posteriormente, apenas as mensagens novas.

Mitigação de Análise de Metadados

Essa abordagem permite uma análise moderada de metadados, pois o servidor pode enviar novas mensagens para cada perfil suspeito exclusivo e usar essas assinaturas de mensagens exclusivas para rastrear sessões ao longo do tempo. Essa preocupação é mitigada por dois fatores:

1. Os perfis podem atualizar suas conexões a qualquer momento, resultando em uma nova sessão do servidor.
2. Os perfis podem ser "ressincronizados" de um servidor a qualquer momento, resultando em uma nova chamada para baixar todas as mensagens. Isso é comumente usado para buscar mensagens antigas de um grupo.

Embora essas medidas imponham limites ao que o servidor pode inferir, ainda não podemos garantir resistência total aos metadados. Para soluções futuras para esse problema, consulte Niwl.

Proteção contra Pares Maliciosos

Os servidores enfrentam o risco de spam gerado por pares, representando uma ameaça significativa à eficácia do sistema Cwtch. Embora tenhamos implementado um mecanismo de proteção contra spam no protótipo do Cwtch, exigindo que os pares realizem alguma prova de trabalho especificada pelo servidor, reconhecemos que essa não é uma solução robusta na presença de um adversário determinado com recursos significativos.

Pacotes de Chaves

Os servidores Cwtch se identificam por meio de pacotes de chaves assinados, contendo uma lista de chaves necessárias para garantir a segurança e resistência aos metadados na comunicação do grupo Cwtch. Esses pacotes de chaves geralmente incluem três chaves: uma chave pública do serviço Tor v3 Onion para o Token Board, uma chave pública do Tor v3 Onion Service para o Token Service e uma chave pública do Privacy Pass.

Para verificar os pacotes de chaves, os perfis que os importam do servidor utilizam o algoritmo trust-on-first-use (TOFU), verificando a assinatura anexada e a existência de todos os tipos de chave. Se o perfil já tiver importado o pacote de chaves do servidor anteriormente, todas as chaves são consideradas iguais.

Configuração prévia do aplicativo para ativar o Relé do Cwtch.

No Android, a hospedagem de servidor não está habilitada, pois essa opção não está disponível devido às limitações dos dispositivos Android. Essa funcionalidade está reservada apenas para servidores hospedados em desktops.

No Android, a única forma direta de importar uma chave de servidor é através do grupo de teste Cwtch, garantindo assim acesso ao servidor Cwtch.

Primeiro passo é Habilitar a opção de grupo no Cwtch que está em fase de testes. Clique na opção no canto superior direito da tela de configuração e pressione o botão para acessar as configurações do Cwtch.

Você pode alterar o idioma para Português do Brasil.Depois, role para baixo e selecione a opção para ativar os experimentos. Em seguida, ative a opção para habilitar o chat em grupo e a pré-visualização de imagens e fotos de perfil, permitindo que você troque sua foto de perfil.

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Próximo passo é Criar um perfil.

Pressione o + botão de ação no canto inferior direito e selecione "Novo perfil" ou aberta no botão + adicionar novo perfil.

• Selecione um nome de exibição

• Selecione se deseja proteger

este perfil e salvo localmente com criptografia forte: Senha: sua conta está protegida de outras pessoas que possam usar este dispositivo

Sem senha: qualquer pessoa que tenha acesso a este dispositivo poderá acessar este perfil.

Preencha sua senha e digite-a novamente

Os perfis são armazenados localmente no disco e criptografados usando uma chave derivada de uma senha conhecida pelo usuário (via pbkdf2).

Observe que, uma vez criptografado e armazenado em disco, a única maneira de recuperar um perfil é recuperando a chave da senha - como tal, não é possível fornecer uma lista completa de perfis aos quais um usuário pode ter acesso até inserir um senha.

https://link.storjshare.io/raw/jxqbqmur2lcqe2eym5thgz4so2ya/production/8f9df1372ec7e659180609afa48be22b12109ae5e1eda9ef1dc05c1325652507.MP4

O próximo passo é adicionar o FuzzBot, que é um bot de testes e de desenvolvimento.

Contato do FuzzBot: 4y2hxlxqzautabituedksnh2ulcgm2coqbure6wvfpg4gi2ci25ta5ad.

Ao enviar o comando "testgroup-invite" para o FuzzBot, você receberá um convite para entrar no Grupo Cwtch Test. Ao ingressar no grupo, você será automaticamente conectado ao servidor Cwtch. Você pode optar por sair do grupo a qualquer momento ou ficar para conversar e tirar dúvidas sobre o aplicativo e outros assuntos. Depois, você pode configurar seu próprio servidor Cwtch, o que é altamente recomendável.

https://link.storjshare.io/raw/jvji25zclkoqcouni5decle7if7a/production/ee3de3540a3e3dca6e6e26d303e12c2ef892a5d7769029275b8b95ffc7468780.MP4

Agora você pode utilizar o aplicativo normalmente. Algumas observações que notei: se houver demora na conexão com outra pessoa, ambas devem estar online. Se ainda assim a conexão não for estabelecida, basta clicar no ícone de reset do Tor para restabelecer a conexão com a outra pessoa.

Uma introdução aos perfis Cwtch.

Com Cwtch você pode criar um ou mais perfis . Cada perfil gera um par de chaves ed25519 aleatório compatível com a Rede Tor.

Este é o identificador que você pode fornecer às pessoas e que elas podem usar para entrar em contato com você via Cwtch.

Cwtch permite criar e gerenciar vários perfis separados. Cada perfil está associado a um par de chaves diferente que inicia um serviço cebola diferente.

Gerenciar Na inicialização, o Cwtch abrirá a tela Gerenciar Perfis. Nessa tela você pode:

• Crie um novo perfil.
• Desbloquear perfis.
• Criptografados existentes.
• Gerenciar perfis carregados.
• Alterando o nome de exibição de um perfil.
• Alterando a senha de um perfil Excluindo um perfil.
• Alterando uma imagem de perfil.

Backup ou exportação de um perfil.

Na tela de gerenciamento de perfil:

1. Selecione o lápis ao lado do perfil que você deseja editar

2. Role para baixo até a parte inferior da tela.

3. Selecione "Exportar perfil"

4. Escolha um local e um nome de arquivo.

5.confirme.

Uma vez confirmado, o Cwtch colocará uma cópia do perfil no local indicado. Este arquivo é criptografado no mesmo nível do perfil.

Este arquivo pode ser importado para outra instância do Cwtch em qualquer dispositivo.

Importando um perfil.

1. Pressione o +botão de ação no canto inferior direito e selecione "Importar perfil"

2. Selecione um arquivo de perfil Cwtch exportado para importar

3. Digite a senha associada ao perfil e confirme.

Uma vez confirmado, o Cwtch tentará descriptografar o arquivo fornecido usando uma chave derivada da senha fornecida. Se for bem-sucedido, o perfil aparecerá na tela Gerenciamento de perfil e estará pronto para uso.

OBSERVAÇÃO Embora um perfil possa ser importado para vários dispositivos, atualmente apenas uma versão de um perfil pode ser usada em todos os dispositivos ao mesmo tempo. As tentativas de usar o mesmo perfil em vários dispositivos podem resultar em problemas de disponibilidade e falhas de mensagens.

Qual é a diferença entre uma conexão ponto a ponto e um grupo cwtch?

As conexões ponto a ponto Cwtch permitem que 2 pessoas troquem mensagens diretamente. As conexões ponto a ponto nos bastidores usam serviços cebola Tor v3 para fornecer uma conexão criptografada e resistente a metadados. Devido a esta conexão direta, ambas as partes precisam estar online ao mesmo tempo para trocar mensagens.

Os Grupos Cwtch permitem que várias partes participem de uma única conversa usando um servidor não confiável (que pode ser fornecido por terceiros ou auto-hospedado). Os operadores de servidores não conseguem saber quantas pessoas estão em um grupo ou o que está sendo discutido. Se vários grupos estiverem hospedados em um único servidor, o servidor não conseguirá saber quais mensagens pertencem a qual grupo sem a conivência de um membro do grupo. Ao contrário das conversas entre pares, as conversas em grupo podem ser conduzidas de forma assíncrona, para que todos num grupo não precisem estar online ao mesmo tempo.

Por que os grupos cwtch são experimentais? Mensagens em grupo resistentes a metadados ainda são um problema em aberto . Embora a versão que fornecemos no Cwtch Beta seja projetada para ser segura e com metadados privados, ela é bastante ineficiente e pode ser mal utilizada. Como tal, aconselhamos cautela ao usá-lo e apenas o fornecemos como um recurso opcional.

Como posso executar meu próprio servidor Cwtch? A implementação de referência para um servidor Cwtch é de código aberto . Qualquer pessoa pode executar um servidor Cwtch, e qualquer pessoa com uma cópia do pacote de chaves públicas do servidor pode hospedar grupos nesse servidor sem que o operador tenha acesso aos metadados relacionados ao grupo .

https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/server

https://docs.openprivacy.ca/cwtch-security-handbook/server.html

Como posso desligar o Cwtch? O painel frontal do aplicativo possui um ícone do botão "Shutdown Cwtch" (com um 'X'). Pressionar este botão irá acionar uma caixa de diálogo e, na confirmação, o Cwtch será desligado e todos os perfis serão descarregados.

Suas doações podem fazer a diferença no projeto Cwtch? O Cwtch é um projeto dedicado a construir aplicativos que preservam a privacidade, oferecendo comunicação de grupo resistente a metadados. Além disso, o projeto também desenvolve o Cofre, formulários da web criptografados para ajudar mútua segura. Suas contribuições apoiam iniciativas importantes, como a divulgação de violações de dados médicos em Vancouver e pesquisas sobre a segurança do voto eletrônico na Suíça. Ao doar, você está ajudando a fechar o ciclo, trabalhando com comunidades marginalizadas para identificar e corrigir lacunas de privacidade. Além disso, o projeto trabalha em soluções inovadoras, como a quebra de segredos através da criptografia de limite para proteger sua privacidade durante passagens de fronteira. E também tem a infraestrutura: toda nossa infraestrutura é open source e sem fins lucrativos. Conheça também o Fuzzytags, uma estrutura criptográfica probabilística para marcação resistente a metadados. Sua doação é crucial para continuar o trabalho em prol da privacidade e segurança online. Contribua agora com sua doação

https://openprivacy.ca/donate/

onde você pode fazer sua doação em bitcoin e outras moedas, e saiba mais sobre os projetos. https://openprivacy.ca/work/

Link sobre Cwtch

https://cwtch.im/

https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/cwtch

https://docs.cwtch.im/docs/intro

https://docs.openprivacy.ca/cwtch-security-handbook/

Baixar #CwtchDev

cwtch.im/download/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.cwtch.flwtch

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Güneşin kaybolmasının üçüncü günü, saat öğlen on ikiyi yirmi geçiyordu. Trenin kalkmasına yaklaşık iki saat vardı. Hepimiz perondaydık. Valizlerimiz, kolilerimiz, renk renk ve biçimsiz çantalarımızla yan yana dizilmiş, kısa aralıklarla tepemizdeki devasa saati kontrol ediyorduk.

Ama ne kadar dik bakarsak bakalım zaman bir türlü istediğimiz hızla ilerlemiyordu. Herkes birkaç dakika sürmesi gereken alelade bir doğa olayına sıkışıp kalmış, karanlıktan sürünerek çıkmayı deniyordu.

Bekleme salonuna doğru döndüm. Nefesimden çıkan buharın arkasında, kalın taş duvarları ve camlarıyla morg kadar güvenli ve soğuk duruyordu. Cesetleri o yüzden bunun gibi yerlere taşımaya başlamışlardı. Demek insanların bütün iyiliği başkaları onları gördüğü içindi ki gündüzleri gecelerden daha karanlık olduğunda hemen birbirlerinin gırtlağına çökmüş, böğürlerinde delikler açmış, gözlerini oyup kafataslarını parçalamışlardı.

İstasyonun ışığı titrediğinde karanlığın enseme saplandığını hissettim. Eğer şimdi, böyle kalabalık bir yerde elektrik kesilse başımıza ne gelirdi?

İçerideki askerlerden biri bakışlarımı yakalayınca yeniden saate odaklanmış gibi yaptım. Sadece birkaç dakika geçmişti.

“Tarlalarım gitti. Böyle boyum kadar ayçiçeği doluydu. Ah, hepsi ölüp gidiyor. Afitap’ın çiçekleri de gi-”

“Dayı, Allah’ını seversen sus. Hepimizi yakacaksın şimdi.”

Karanlıkta durduğunda, görünmez olmayı istemeye başlıyordun. Kimse seni görmemeli, nefesini bile duymamalıydı. Kimsenin de ayağının altında dolaşmamalıydın; gelip kazayla sana çarpmamalılar, takılıp sendelememeliydiler. Yoksa aslında hedefi sen olmadığın bir öfke gürlemeye başlar, yaşadığın ilk şoku ve acıyı silerek üstünden geçerdi.

İlk konuşan, yaşlıca bir adam, kafasında kasketi, nasırlı ellerine hohluyordu. Gözleri ve burnu kızarmıştı. Güneşin kaybolması onun için kendi başına bir felaket değildi. Hayatına olan pratik yansımalarından korkuyordu olsa olsa. Bir anının kaybolması, bu yüzden çoktan kaybettiği birinin biraz daha eksilmesi. Hayatta kalmasını gerektiren sebepler azalırken, hayatta kalmasını sağlayacak kaynaklarını da kaybediyordu.

Onu susturan delikanlıysa atkısını bütün kafasına sarmış, sakalı ve yüzünün derinliklerine kaçmış gözleri dışında bedeninin bütün parçalarını gizlemeye çalışıyordu. İşte o, güneşin kaybolmasının tam olarak ne anlama geldiğini anlamamış olsa bile, dehşetini olduğu gibi hissedebilenlerdendi.

Güneşin onlardan alındıktan sonra kime verileceğini sormuyorlardı. En başta onlara verildiğinde de hiçbir soru sormamışlardı zaten.

İki saat ne zaman geçer?

Midemin üstünde, sağ tarafıma doğru keskin bir acı hissettim. Karaciğerim. Gözlerimi yumdum. Yanımda biri metal bir nesneyi yere bıraktı. Bir kafesti. İçerisindeki kartalın ıslak kokusu burnuma ulaşmadan önce bile biliyordum bunu.

“Yeniden mi?” diye sordu bana kartal. Kanatları kanlı. Zamanın her bir parçası tüylerinin üstüne çöreklenmişti. Gagası bir şey, tahminen et parçası geveliyor gibi hareket ediyordu. Eski anılar kolay unutulmazmış. Şu anda kafesinin kalın parmaklıklarının ardında olsa da bunun bir aldatmaca olduğunu bir tek ben biliyordum. Her an kanatlarını iki yana uzatıverebilir, hava bu hareketiyle dalgalanarak kafesi esneterek hepimizi içine alacak kadar genişleyebilir, parmaklıklar önce ayaklarımızın altına serilir gibi gözükebilir ama aslında hepimizin üstünde yükselerek tepemize çökebilirdi.

Aşağıya baktım. Tahtalarla zapt edilmiş, hiçbir yere gidemeyen ama her yere uzanan tren rayları. Atlayıp koşsam… Çantam çok ağırdı. Daha birkaç adım atamadan, kartal, suratını bedenime gömerdi.

“Bu sefer farklı,” diye yanıtladım onu. “Yeniden diyemezsin. Tekrarladığım bir şey değil bu. Hatta bir hata yapıyormuşum gibi tonlayamazsın da. Bu sefer, insanların hak etmediğini biliyorum.”

“O zaman daha vahim. Süzme salaksın demektir.”

“İnsanların hak etmemesi, insanlığın hak etmediği anlamına gelmez ki.”

Az önce göz göze geldiğim genççe ama çökük asker hâlâ bana bakıyordu. Bir kartalla konuştuğumu anlamamıştı şüphesiz. Yanımdakilerden biriyle konuştuğumu sanmış olmalıydı. Ama konuştuğum kişiye bakmıyordum ona göre. Çekingence kafamı eğmiştim. Bir kez daha göz göze geldiğimizde içerideki diğer iki askere bir şeyler söyledi, onlar dönüp beni süzerken dışarı çıktı.

Yanımızdaki, az önce konuşan iki adam da şaşkınlıkla bir bana bir kartala bakıyordu.

“Yalnız bu sefer kalbin de kırılacak, Prometheus,” dedi kartal, bana. “Belki son olur. Biliyorsun, bir sürü soruna neden oluyor bu yaptıkların.”

Beni koruyordu sözde. En çok kanıma dokunan buydu. Kasıklarımın üstüne oturmuş, kanlı suratının ardında gözleri parlarken attığı çığlık kulaklarımda titremeye devam ediyordu. Bu tabloda kimsenin kimseyi düşündüğü yoktu. Kartalın, yanımızdaki adamların, artık arkama kadar gelmiş olması gereken askerin, tren raylarının, geçmeyen saatlerin…

Arkamı döndüğümde, asker sahiden oradaydı. Zaten öyle olması gerekiyordu; görmüştüm bunu, biliyordum. Kehanetler… Bir şeyler söylüyordu ama ağzı oynarken sesi çıkmıyordu. Yavaşlamış, kendisini saatin akışına uydurmuştu. Havada donan tükürüğünden anlaşılıyordu, sinirliydi. Korktuğu için olduğunu biliyordum. Her seferinde korkmuşlardı. Beni unutmuş olmaları işlerini kolaylaştırmıyordu. Sadece yeni bir isim vermelerine neden oluyordu. Bu seferkiyle beni lanetleyecekleri kesinleşmişti.

Olması gerekenle olanların farklı olması ne kadar acınasıydı. Olması gerekenlerin doğasının kötücül olmasıysa bir yerde buna dayanıyordu.

“Salaksın,” dedi kartal bana. Zamanı aşan bir çığlık. Hepimizin önüne geçmişti ama kimseyi durduramıyordu.

Sonsuzluğa kaç tane iki saat sıkıştırabilirsiniz?

Ben bir tane bile sıkıştıramadım.

Çantama uzanıyordum. Asker de sırtındaki tüfeğini indiriyordu. Benim acelem yoktu, onunsa eli ayağı birbirine dolaşıyordu. Oysaki her şey tam olması gerektiği anda olacaktı. Kehanet başkasının parmaklarının ucundaydı.

Güneş, bir tüfeğin patlamasıyla yeryüzüne doğdu.

Rayların üzerine serilmiş göğsümün ortasından, bir çantanın içinden.

Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2021 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ben geldiğimde ölmüşlerdi.

Yani bozulmuşlardı demek istiyorum.

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

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

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

Eliyle arkasını işaret etti.

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

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

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

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

Bira istemediğinden emin misin?

İstemediğini söyledi. Sahi, neden deliriyordu bu androidler?

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

Sesini alçalttı.

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

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

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

Nedenmiş peki? Ne gerek varmış?

Ne bileyim be abicim! Ahiret soruları gibi.

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

Ben seni nereden tanıyorum ki ulan? Kimsin sen?

Belleği makineden çıkardılar. İki kişiydiler. Soruşturmadan sorumlu memurlar.

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

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

─ Bence de. Yeterince düzgün çalışıyor.

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

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

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

Hangi işimizde bir yamukluk yok ki be abi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hiçbir vagonda pencere olmadığı için metronun içi, içlerindekiler meçhuldü.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onların mercekleri için değil. Bağlantıları çok önceden kopmuştu.

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

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

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

─ Nasıl olmuş, diye sordu.

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

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

─ Çok güzelsin, diyerek kravatını düzeltti kocası.

─ Sen de öylesin, sevgilim.

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

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

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

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

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

Hiç de androidlere bilinçli olarak zarar verebilecek gibi gözükmüyorlardı.

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

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

Bütün illüzyon o anda dağılmaya başladı.

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

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Embarking on the journey of operating your own Lightning node on the Bitcoin Layer 2 network is more than just a tech-savvy endeavor; it's a step into a realm of financial autonomy and cutting-edge innovation. By running a node, you become a vital part of a revolutionary movement that's reshaping how we think about money and digital transactions. This role not only offers a unique perspective on blockchain technology but also places you at the heart of a community dedicated to decentralization and network resilience. Beyond the technicalities, it's about embracing a new era of digital finance, where you contribute directly to the network's security, efficiency, and growth, all while gaining personal satisfaction and potentially lucrative rewards.

In essence, running your own Lightning node is a powerful way to engage with the forefront of blockchain technology, assert financial independence, and contribute to a more decentralized and efficient Bitcoin network. It's an adventure that offers both personal and communal benefits, from gaining in-depth tech knowledge to earning a place in the evolving landscape of cryptocurrency.

Running your own Lightning node for the Bitcoin Layer 2 network can be an empowering and beneficial endeavor. Here are 10 reasons why you might consider taking on this task:

1. Direct Contribution to Decentralization: Operating a node is a direct action towards decentralizing the Bitcoin network, crucial for its security and resistance to control or censorship by any single entity.

2. Financial Autonomy: Owning a node gives you complete control over your financial transactions on the network, free from reliance on third-party services, which can be subject to fees, restrictions, or outages.

3. Advanced Network Participation: As a node operator, you're not just a passive participant but an active player in shaping the network, influencing its efficiency and scalability through direct involvement.

4. Potential for Higher Revenue: With strategic management and optimal channel funding, your node can become a preferred route for transactions, potentially increasing the routing fees you can earn.

5. Cutting-Edge Technological Engagement: Running a node puts you at the forefront of blockchain and bitcoin technology, offering insights into future developments and innovations.

6. Strengthened Network Security: Each new node adds to the robustness of the Bitcoin network, making it more resilient against attacks and failures, thus contributing to the overall security of the ecosystem.

7. Personalized Fee Structures: You have the flexibility to set your own fee policies, which can balance earning potential with the service you provide to the network.

8. Empowerment Through Knowledge: The process of setting up and managing a node provides deep learning opportunities, empowering you with knowledge that can be applied in various areas of blockchain and fintech.

9. Boosting Transaction Capacity: By running a node, you help to increase the overall capacity of the Lightning Network, enabling more transactions to be processed quickly and at lower costs.

10. Community Leadership and Reputation: As an active node operator, you gain recognition within the Bitcoin community, which can lead to collaborative opportunities and a position of thought leadership in the space.

These reasons demonstrate the impactful and transformative nature of running a Lightning node, appealing to those who are deeply invested in the principles of bitcoin and wish to actively shape its future. Jump aboard, and embrace the journey toward full independence. 🐶🐾🫡🚀🚀🚀

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Chef's notes

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

Details

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

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

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

Bold text work!

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

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

🐶🐾🤯🤯🤯🫂💜

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

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Test Bounty Note

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Intro

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

Requirements

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

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

Installation

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

Prepare and verify

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

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

Create folders & download NWC

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

Creating the Docker image

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

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

Creating docker-compose.yml and necessary data directories

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

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

Starting and testing

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

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

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

Updating

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

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

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Last week, an investigation by Reuters revealed that Chinese researchers have been using open-source AI tools to build nefarious-sounding models that may have some military application.

The reporting purports that adversaries in the Chinese Communist Party and its military wing are taking advantage of the liberal software licensing of American innovations in the AI space, which could someday have capabilities to presumably harm the United States.

In a June paper reviewed by Reuters, six Chinese researchers from three institutions, including two under the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) leading research body, the Academy of Military Science (AMS), detailed how they had used an early version of Meta’s Llama as a base for what it calls “ChatBIT”.

The researchers used an earlier Llama 13B large language model (LLM) from Meta, incorporating their own parameters to construct a military-focused AI tool to gather and process intelligence, and offer accurate and reliable information for operational decision-making.

While I’m doubtful that today’s existing chatbot-like tools will be the ultimate battlefield for a new geopolitical war (queue up the computer-simulated war from the Star Trek episode “A Taste of Armageddon“), this recent exposé requires us to revisit why large language models are released as open-source code in the first place.

Added to that, should it matter that an adversary is having a poke around and may ultimately use them for some purpose we may not like, whether that be China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran?

The number of open-source AI LLMs continues to grow each day, with projects like Vicuna, LLaMA, BLOOMB, Falcon, and Mistral available for download. In fact, there are over one million open-source LLMs available as of writing this post. With some decent hardware, every global citizen can download these codebases and run them on their computer.

With regard to this specific story, we could assume it to be a selective leak by a competitor of Meta which created the LLaMA model, intended to harm its reputation among those with cybersecurity and national security credentials. There are potentially trillions of dollars on the line.

Or it could be the revelation of something more sinister happening in the military-sponsored labs of Chinese hackers who have already been caught attacking American infrastructure, data, and yes, your credit history?

As consumer advocates who believe in the necessity of liberal democracies to safeguard our liberties against authoritarianism, we should absolutely remain skeptical when it comes to the communist regime in Beijing. We’ve written as much many times.

At the same time, however, we should not subrogate our own critical thinking and principles because it suits a convenient narrative.

Consumers of all stripes deserve technological freedom, and innovators should be free to provide that to us. And open-source software has provided the very foundations for all of this.

Open-source matters When we discuss open-source software and code, what we’re really talking about is the ability for people other than the creators to use it.

The various licensing schemes – ranging from GNU General Public License (GPL) to the MIT License and various public domain classifications – determine whether other people can use the code, edit it to their liking, and run it on their machine. Some licenses even allow you to monetize the modifications you’ve made.

While many different types of software will be fully licensed and made proprietary, restricting or even penalizing those who attempt to use it on their own, many developers have created software intended to be released to the public. This allows multiple contributors to add to the codebase and to make changes to improve it for public benefit.

Open-source software matters because anyone, anywhere can download and run the code on their own. They can also modify it, edit it, and tailor it to their specific need. The code is intended to be shared and built upon not because of some altruistic belief, but rather to make it accessible for everyone and create a broad base. This is how we create standards for technologies that provide the ground floor for further tinkering to deliver value to consumers.

Open-source libraries create the building blocks that decrease the hassle and cost of building a new web platform, smartphone, or even a computer language. They distribute common code that can be built upon, assuring interoperability and setting standards for all of our devices and technologies to talk to each other.

I am myself a proponent of open-source software. The server I run in my home has dozens of dockerized applications sourced directly from open-source contributors on GitHub and DockerHub. When there are versions or adaptations that I don’t like, I can pick and choose which I prefer. I can even make comments or add edits if I’ve found a better way for them to run.

Whether you know it or not, many of you run the Linux operating system as the base for your Macbook or any other computer and use all kinds of web tools that have active repositories forked or modified by open-source contributors online. This code is auditable by everyone and can be scrutinized or reviewed by whoever wants to (even AI bots).

This is the same software that runs your airlines, powers the farms that deliver your food, and supports the entire global monetary system. The code of the first decentralized cryptocurrency Bitcoin is also open-source, which has allowed thousands of copycat protocols that have revolutionized how we view money.

You know what else is open-source and available for everyone to use, modify, and build upon?

PHP, Mozilla Firefox, LibreOffice, MySQL, Python, Git, Docker, and WordPress. All protocols and languages that power the web. Friend or foe alike, anyone can download these pieces of software and run them how they see fit.

Open-source code is speech, and it is knowledge.

We build upon it to make information and technology accessible. Attempts to curb open-source, therefore, amount to restricting speech and knowledge.

Open-source is for your friends, and enemies In the context of Artificial Intelligence, many different developers and companies have chosen to take their large language models and make them available via an open-source license.

At this very moment, you can click on over to Hugging Face, download an AI model, and build a chatbot or scripting machine suited to your needs. All for free (as long as you have the power and bandwidth).

Thousands of companies in the AI sector are doing this at this very moment, discovering ways of building on top of open-source models to develop new apps, tools, and services to offer to companies and individuals. It’s how many different applications are coming to life and thousands more jobs are being created.

We know this can be useful to friends, but what about enemies?

As the AI wars heat up between liberal democracies like the US, the UK, and (sluggishly) the European Union, we know that authoritarian adversaries like the CCP and Russia are building their own applications.

The fear that China will use open-source US models to create some kind of military application is a clear and present danger for many political and national security researchers, as well as politicians.

A bipartisan group of US House lawmakers want to put export controls on AI models, as well as block foreign access to US cloud servers that may be hosting AI software.

If this seems familiar, we should also remember that the US government once classified cryptography and encryption as “munitions” that could not be exported to other countries (see The Crypto Wars). Many of the arguments we hear today were invoked by some of the same people as back then.

Now, encryption protocols are the gold standard for many different banking and web services, messaging, and all kinds of electronic communication. We expect our friends to use it, and our foes as well. Because code is knowledge and speech, we know how to evaluate it and respond if we need to.

Regardless of who uses open-source AI, this is how we should view it today. These are merely tools that people will use for good or ill. It’s up to governments to determine how best to stop illiberal or nefarious uses that harm us, rather than try to outlaw or restrict building of free and open software in the first place.

Limiting open-source threatens our own advancement If we set out to restrict and limit our ability to create and share open-source code, no matter who uses it, that would be tantamount to imposing censorship. There must be another way.

If there is a “Hundred Year Marathon” between the United States and liberal democracies on one side and autocracies like the Chinese Communist Party on the other, this is not something that will be won or lost based on software licenses. We need as much competition as possible.

The Chinese military has been building up its capabilities with trillions of dollars’ worth of investments that span far beyond AI chatbots and skip logic protocols.

The theft of intellectual property at factories in Shenzhen, or in US courts by third-party litigation funding coming from China, is very real and will have serious economic consequences. It may even change the balance of power if our economies and countries turn to war footing.

But these are separate issues from the ability of free people to create and share open-source code which we can all benefit from. In fact, if we want to continue our way our life and continue to add to global productivity and growth, it’s demanded that we defend open-source.

If liberal democracies want to compete with our global adversaries, it will not be done by reducing the freedoms of citizens in our own countries.

Last week, an investigation by Reuters revealed that Chinese researchers have been using open-source AI tools to build nefarious-sounding models that may have some military application.

The reporting purports that adversaries in the Chinese Communist Party and its military wing are taking advantage of the liberal software licensing of American innovations in the AI space, which could someday have capabilities to presumably harm the United States.

In a June paper reviewed by Reuters, six Chinese researchers from three institutions, including two under the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) leading research body, the Academy of Military Science (AMS), detailed how they had used an early version of Meta’s Llama as a base for what it calls “ChatBIT”.

The researchers used an earlier Llama 13B large language model (LLM) from Meta, incorporating their own parameters to construct a military-focused AI tool to gather and process intelligence, and offer accurate and reliable information for operational decision-making.

While I’m doubtful that today’s existing chatbot-like tools will be the ultimate battlefield for a new geopolitical war (queue up the computer-simulated war from the Star Trek episode “A Taste of Armageddon“), this recent exposé requires us to revisit why large language models are released as open-source code in the first place.

Added to that, should it matter that an adversary is having a poke around and may ultimately use them for some purpose we may not like, whether that be China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran?

The number of open-source AI LLMs continues to grow each day, with projects like Vicuna, LLaMA, BLOOMB, Falcon, and Mistral available for download. In fact, there are over one million open-source LLMs available as of writing this post. With some decent hardware, every global citizen can download these codebases and run them on their computer.

With regard to this specific story, we could assume it to be a selective leak by a competitor of Meta which created the LLaMA model, intended to harm its reputation among those with cybersecurity and national security credentials. There are potentially trillions of dollars on the line.

Or it could be the revelation of something more sinister happening in the military-sponsored labs of Chinese hackers who have already been caught attacking American infrastructure, data, and yes, your credit history?

As consumer advocates who believe in the necessity of liberal democracies to safeguard our liberties against authoritarianism, we should absolutely remain skeptical when it comes to the communist regime in Beijing. We’ve written as much many times.

At the same time, however, we should not subrogate our own critical thinking and principles because it suits a convenient narrative.

Consumers of all stripes deserve technological freedom, and innovators should be free to provide that to us. And open-source software has provided the very foundations for all of this.

Open-source matters

When we discuss open-source software and code, what we’re really talking about is the ability for people other than the creators to use it.

The various licensing schemes – ranging from GNU General Public License (GPL) to the MIT License and various public domain classifications – determine whether other people can use the code, edit it to their liking, and run it on their machine. Some licenses even allow you to monetize the modifications you’ve made.

While many different types of software will be fully licensed and made proprietary, restricting or even penalizing those who attempt to use it on their own, many developers have created software intended to be released to the public. This allows multiple contributors to add to the codebase and to make changes to improve it for public benefit.

Open-source software matters because anyone, anywhere can download and run the code on their own. They can also modify it, edit it, and tailor it to their specific need. The code is intended to be shared and built upon not because of some altruistic belief, but rather to make it accessible for everyone and create a broad base. This is how we create standards for technologies that provide the ground floor for further tinkering to deliver value to consumers.

Open-source libraries create the building blocks that decrease the hassle and cost of building a new web platform, smartphone, or even a computer language. They distribute common code that can be built upon, assuring interoperability and setting standards for all of our devices and technologies to talk to each other.

I am myself a proponent of open-source software. The server I run in my home has dozens of dockerized applications sourced directly from open-source contributors on GitHub and DockerHub. When there are versions or adaptations that I don’t like, I can pick and choose which I prefer. I can even make comments or add edits if I’ve found a better way for them to run.

Whether you know it or not, many of you run the Linux operating system as the base for your Macbook or any other computer and use all kinds of web tools that have active repositories forked or modified by open-source contributors online. This code is auditable by everyone and can be scrutinized or reviewed by whoever wants to (even AI bots).

This is the same software that runs your airlines, powers the farms that deliver your food, and supports the entire global monetary system. The code of the first decentralized cryptocurrency Bitcoin is also open-source, which has allowed thousands of copycat protocols that have revolutionized how we view money.

You know what else is open-source and available for everyone to use, modify, and build upon?

PHP, Mozilla Firefox, LibreOffice, MySQL, Python, Git, Docker, and WordPress. All protocols and languages that power the web. Friend or foe alike, anyone can download these pieces of software and run them how they see fit.

Open-source code is speech, and it is knowledge.

We build upon it to make information and technology accessible. Attempts to curb open-source, therefore, amount to restricting speech and knowledge.

Open-source is for your friends, and enemies

In the context of Artificial Intelligence, many different developers and companies have chosen to take their large language models and make them available via an open-source license.

At this very moment, you can click on over to Hugging Face, download an AI model, and build a chatbot or scripting machine suited to your needs. All for free (as long as you have the power and bandwidth).

Thousands of companies in the AI sector are doing this at this very moment, discovering ways of building on top of open-source models to develop new apps, tools, and services to offer to companies and individuals. It’s how many different applications are coming to life and thousands more jobs are being created.

We know this can be useful to friends, but what about enemies?

As the AI wars heat up between liberal democracies like the US, the UK, and (sluggishly) the European Union, we know that authoritarian adversaries like the CCP and Russia are building their own applications.

The fear that China will use open-source US models to create some kind of military application is a clear and present danger for many political and national security researchers, as well as politicians.

A bipartisan group of US House lawmakers want to put export controls on AI models, as well as block foreign access to US cloud servers that may be hosting AI software.

If this seems familiar, we should also remember that the US government once classified cryptography and encryption as “munitions” that could not be exported to other countries (see The Crypto Wars). Many of the arguments we hear today were invoked by some of the same people as back then.

Now, encryption protocols are the gold standard for many different banking and web services, messaging, and all kinds of electronic communication. We expect our friends to use it, and our foes as well. Because code is knowledge and speech, we know how to evaluate it and respond if we need to.

Regardless of who uses open-source AI, this is how we should view it today. These are merely tools that people will use for good or ill. It’s up to governments to determine how best to stop illiberal or nefarious uses that harm us, rather than try to outlaw or restrict building of free and open software in the first place.

Limiting open-source threatens our own advancement

If we set out to restrict and limit our ability to create and share open-source code, no matter who uses it, that would be tantamount to imposing censorship. There must be another way.

If there is a “Hundred Year Marathon” between the United States and liberal democracies on one side and autocracies like the Chinese Communist Party on the other, this is not something that will be won or lost based on software licenses. We need as much competition as possible.

The Chinese military has been building up its capabilities with trillions of dollars’ worth of investments that span far beyond AI chatbots and skip logic protocols.

The theft of intellectual property at factories in Shenzhen, or in US courts by third-party litigation funding coming from China, is very real and will have serious economic consequences. It may even change the balance of power if our economies and countries turn to war footing.

But these are separate issues from the ability of free people to create and share open-source code which we can all benefit from. In fact, if we want to continue our way our life and continue to add to global productivity and growth, it’s demanded that we defend open-source.

If liberal democracies want to compete with our global adversaries, it will not be done by reducing the freedoms of citizens in our own countries.

Originally published on the website of the Consumer Choice Center.

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TIL Google Authenticator can potentially collect a lot of data, more than some of the other popular 2FA apps^1.

Whether it does or it doesn’t, if you’re like me, you don’t turn down an opportunity to remove some Google from your life and add in some open-source.

Here’s a quick overview of the migration process.

Step 1: Download 2FAS

Step 2: Export accounts from Authenticator

This can be done via “Transfer accounts” in the sidebar. If you’re transferring on the same phone, take a screenshot of the QR code.

Step 3: Import accounts into 2FAS

During the setup process for 2FAS, you’ll be given the option to import existing tokens from Google. This is where you’ll tap “Choose QR Code” and select the screenshot you took in step 2.

Note that when you tap continue after importing the tokens, you’ll be taken back to the same screen as above. I think it should take you to your list of accounts after. Either way, don’t think the import failed. Just tap cancel, and you’ll be taken there.

If you’re on Android, check out Aegis. 🫡

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/753472

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Day two of replacing bad habits with good habits.

I've also created shortcuts on my phone (iPhone) to limit the use of social media today. This will lock my phone after 5 minutes of social media.

Some bad habits can also affect our relationships with people, I'm working on these from the inside out. I've identified some of these habits and am now working on breaking them or replacing them.

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All eyes are, unsurprisingly, on the US Presidential election. Tomorrow is the big day. I don't want to come off as preachy, however it is pretty clear to me that if you are an American citizen who cares about bitcoin and would like to live under an administration that is eager to embrace the industry as opposed to an administration that is actively hostile toward bitcoin there is only one candidate who deserves your vote; Donald J. Trump. I think he's a better candidate for other reasons, but if you've read this rag for long enough you probably already know what those are. Instead of writing a screed about why I am voting for Trump, let's highlight some things outside of the election that you should be paying attention to this week.

First up, there are two Treasury auctions; $42B of 10-Year notes tomorrow and $25B 30-Year bonds on Wednesday.

It will be interesting to see what the demand for these auctions is and how they affect rates. The long end of the yield curve has been pumping since the Fed's rate cut in the middle of September, which is the market signaling that it does not believe inflation has been appropriately tamed. Yields came down today, but as you can see from the charts things are trending in the wrong direction.

As the Treasury issues new debt at higher rates, the interest expense on that debt, naturally, drifts higher. If the long end of the yield curve doesn't come down aggressively over the course of the next year this is going to be a big problem. There are trillions of dollars worth of Treasury debt that needs the be rolled over in the next few years and it would be advantageous for the Treasury if that debt wasn't being rolled over with yields as high as they are. With the amount of debt the country has accrued in recent decades, every incremental dollar of debt that gets issued and/or rolled over at higher interest rates exacerbates the problem. We are approaching the territory of runaway exponentials, as evidenced by this chart. The growth slope gets steeper and steeper

This debt problem is the elephant in the room that needs to be addressed as quickly as possible. The national debt hit $1.2T in early 1983. It then took 26 years to 10x from $1.2T to $12T in late 2009 and has only taken another 15 years to triple from there to $36T or 30x from the arbitrary base I picked out (Q1 1983).

With this in mind, keep an eye out for these auctions tomorrow and Wednesday, where rates end at the end of trading on Wednesday, and whether or not we officially push over $36T. Regardless of who wins the election tomorrow, this is a problem that needs to be confronted. Whether or not it can be solved at all is up for debate. I don't see how what can be done to reel in this runaway train at this point. However, at the very least, we should acknowledge that we're in the realm of exponentials and have people prepare accordingly by accumulating hard assets that cannot be debased (bitcoin).

The other thing to pay attention to is the FOMC meeting on Wednesday and the announcement of the results of the meeting on Thursday. Will Jerome and the other Fed board members to keep rates where they are, cut, or raise rates? Raising rates seems to be out of the question despite the fact that many believe it would be the most prudent move considering how the long end of the yield curve reacted to the 50bps cut in September. If they decide to cut rates, by how much will they cut them? Will they slow the pace with a 25bps cut or continue at the 50bps clip established in September?

We'll find toward the end of this week. Don't lose sight of these events while the world is enthralled with the elections in the US.

I don't know about you freaks, but I couldn't feel more fortunate that bitcoin exists at a time like this. Having access to a distributed peer-to-peer digital cash system with a fixed supply during a time of incredible political divisiveness and out-of-control runaway sovereign debt feels like a Godsend.

Stay sane out there.

Final thought...

We're going to win.

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Chef's notes

2 cups pureed pumpkin 2 cups white sugar 3 eggs, beaten 1/2 cup olive oil 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 1/4 cups flour 1/4 cup chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Coat a bread pan with olive oil. Mix all ingredients minus nuts, leaving the flour for last, and adding it in 2 parts. Stir until combined. Pour the batter into the bread pan and sprinkle chopped nuts down the middle of the batter, lenghtwise. Bake for an hour and ten minutes or until a knife insert in the middle of the pan comes out clean. Allow bread to cool in the pan for five mintes, then use knife to loosen the edges of the loaf and pop out of the pan. Rest on a rack or plate until cool enough to slice. Spread bread slices with Plugra butter and serve.

https://cookeatloveshare.com/pumpkin-bread/

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 30 minutes
• 🍳 Cook time: 1 hour and ten minutes
• 🍽️ Servings: 6

Ingredients

• See Chef's Notes

Directions

1. See Chef's Notes

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Quem não os conhece? Os vampiros sugadores de sangue, os mortos-vivos sinistros, imortalizados em incontáveis filmes e inspirados principalmente no romance “Drácula” de Bram Stoker (1897). Pense em filmes icônicos como o mudo “Nosferatu – Uma Sinfonia do Horror” (1922), “Drácula” (1958) com Christopher Lee, a paródia de Roman Polanski “A Dança dos Vampiros” (1967) ou “Nosferatu – O Vampiro da Noite” (1979), estrelando Klaus Kinski como o Conde Drácula.

Vampiros são demônios que saem de seus túmulos à noite, buscando drenar o sangue de vítimas inocentes. Não apenas roubam a força vital que os sustenta, mas também espalham sua maldição. Muitas vítimas, ao serem mordidas, também “se tornam” mortas-vivas, juntando-se ao domínio sombrio do vampiro.

Os inimigos e caçadores de vampiros enfrentam um desafio formidável: os vampiros podem se disfarçar, transformando-se em criaturas como lobos ou morcegos, e geralmente possuem uma força sobre-humana. Só podem ser repelidos por defesas tradicionais — dentes de alho, rosários, água benta ou a cruz cristã. Mas destruí-los de fato exige decapitação, uma estaca de madeira no coração, ou a luz do sol, que os transforma em pó.

O vampiro é um mito antigo e difundido. A imagem de uma criatura morta-viva sugadora de sangue, ou conceitos semelhantes, existe em várias culturas. Esse demônio personifica a superstição — atuando como uma projeção de medos primordiais, do inexplicável e do mal como o contraponto do bem. A ideia de uma criatura que emerge à noite, drena o sangue de suas vítimas e as puxa da luz para a escuridão é, sem dúvida, profundamente ameaçadora.

Quando refletimos um pouco mais sobre a história de terror do demônio vampiro, inevitavelmente começamos a ver paralelos (ou pelo menos pontos de contato) com o sistema de moeda fiat que existe mundialmente hoje.

Sob o Manto da Escuridão

Isso ocorre sob o manto da escuridão: é justo dizer que a grande maioria das pessoas não sabe como o sistema de moeda fiat de hoje é estruturado, como funciona ou quais são seus efeitos. Nas escolas e universidades, os alunos são, na maioria das vezes, deixados no escuro sobre o assunto, e as consequências do sistema fiat surpreendem a maioria das pessoas — despreparadas e sem piedade. Quantas pessoas sabem que o sistema atual é um sistema em que o banco central do estado possui um monopólio coercitivo sobre a criação de dinheiro fiat, enquanto os bancos comerciais emitem seu próprio dinheiro fiat com base no dinheiro fiat do banco central?

Quem sabe que o dinheiro fiat é literalmente criado do nada, representando uma forma de criação de dinheiro que não tem conexão alguma com “poupança real”? E quem explica para as pessoas que, do ponto de vista econômico, a expansão da oferta de moeda fiat é inflacionária, resultando em preços mais altos para bens e serviços em comparação a uma situação onde a oferta de dinheiro não tivesse sido aumentada? Poucos sabem também que a emissão de moeda fiat via mercado de crédito causa uma má alocação de capital, inicialmente desencadeando um boom, seguido por uma recessão; que leva as economias a um endividamento excessivo; e que permite ao estado crescer cada vez mais às custas das liberdades dos cidadãos e empreendedores.

Em resumo, para a maioria das pessoas, os danos causados pela moeda fiat são desconhecidos; eles se aproximam furtivamente sob o manto da escuridão, como um vampiro.

Vítimas Vulneráveis & Vida Sugada

As vítimas são muitas vezes indefesas e inconscientes, com os frutos de seu trabalho sendo efetivamente sugados. A moeda fiat tem algo de vampírico, permitindo que um grupo (aqueles autorizados a criar dinheiro fiat) viva às custas de outros (aqueles forçados a usar o dinheiro monopolizado). Os primeiros a receber o novo dinheiro fiat são os beneficiários. Eles podem usá-lo para comprar bens e serviços cujos preços ainda não subiram, enriquecendo-se.

Conforme o dinheiro troca de mãos, ele aumenta a demanda e os preços dos bens sobem. Como resultado, os últimos a receberem o novo dinheiro só podem comprar bens a preços mais altos, ficando em desvantagem. Os primeiros beneficiários melhoram sua posição às custas dos últimos. Os mais gravemente afetados são aqueles que não recebem nada do suprimento de novo dinheiro — eles são, efetivamente, os “sugados até secarem.”

O efeito redistributivo vampírico da moeda fiat, que opera nas sombras, beneficia especialmente os bancos comerciais que criam dinheiro fiat, bem como aqueles em posição de tomar novos empréstimos bancários em moeda fiat.

Primeiro e principalmente, é o estado e aqueles que dele se beneficiam que são os maiores vencedores do sistema de dinheiro fiat vampiresco. O estado financia uma parte significativa de seus gastos com a moeda fiat recém-criada, usando-a para pagar seus representantes, funcionários e suas aposentadorias, bem como as empresas das quais compra bens e serviços. O estado e seus beneficiários estão entre os primeiros a receber o novo dinheiro fiat, tornando-se os principais beneficiários em detrimento de muitos que não estão diretamente ligados ao estado.

Poder-se-ia argumentar que uma redistribuição de renda e riqueza, provocada pelo aumento de moeda fiat, também ocorreria em um sistema de moeda-mercadoria ou metais preciosos. Isso é verdade em princípio, mas o aumento em um sistema de moeda lastreada em ouro, por exemplo, seria menos pronunciado do que em um sistema de moeda fiat. O fato é que este último foi escolhido deliberadamente por sua natureza vampiresca. Ele beneficia o estado, os bancos e as grandes empresas às custas da população em geral, mantendo-a aquém de seu potencial econômico.

Criando Servos

Como um vampiro, a moeda fiat infecta suas vítimas, tornando-as cúmplices do sistema de dinheiro fiat. A moeda fiat literalmente escraviza seus usuários, tornando-os dependentes. Por exemplo, ela incentiva empresas e famílias a contrair dívidas e viver além de suas possibilidades, algo viabilizado pelas taxas de juros artificialmente baixas. As pessoas também são incentivadas a investir em ativos (como casas e empresas) porque a natureza cronicamente inflacionária da moeda fiat garante uma elevação contínua dos preços dos ativos. Uma vez atraídas pela moeda fiat, o bem-estar econômico e financeiro das pessoas torna-se dependente da continuação do sistema de moeda fiat inflacionário e de seu “resgate” pelo estado e pelo banco central em tempos de crise — mesmo que isso ocorra às custas de quem não se beneficia do sistema, ou que beneficia muito pouco.

Políticos, burocratas, funcionários bancários e empresas que recebem contratos do governo desenvolvem um interesse em manter o sistema de moeda fiat. Nesse sentido, eles se tornam servos vampiros do dinheiro fiat, alimentando-se do sangue daqueles que trabalham produtivamente ao reivindicar uma parte de sua renda.

Além disso, os detentores de dinheiro fiat perdem, pois ele continuamente perde poder de compra. No sistema de moeda fiat, o banco central mantém as taxas de juros artificialmente baixas — muitas vezes negativas quando ajustadas pela inflação —, de modo que as poupanças em depósitos a prazo, contas de poupança e títulos são efetivamente corroídas.

Aversão à Luz

O vampiro e o sistema de dinheiro fiat não suportam a luz do dia; ambos se desintegram em pó quando expostos ao sol. Se as pessoas realmente entendessem os efeitos negativos da moeda fiat e os danos que ela causa ao mundo, provavelmente a rejeitariam — junto com as estruturas de produção e emprego que ela cria. Provavelmente é por isso que tão pouco é ensinado sobre a moeda fiat em escolas e universidades. Seus aspectos mais sombrios são ocultados, com o sistema educacional estatal garantindo que o brilho do conhecimento não ilumine o sistema de moeda fiat.

Lembre-se de que os conselhos dos bancos centrais são geralmente chamados de “os guardiões da moeda” e que eles “combatem” a inflação. Nada poderia estar mais longe da verdade — como um vampiro que recebe seus convidados e conversa com inteligência, sem revelar sua verdadeira natureza. Assim como a luz solar mata um vampiro, o conhecimento econômico sólido destruiria o sistema de moeda fiat, especialmente se combinado com uma ética simples e bem compreendida como “faça aos outros o que você gostaria que fizessem a você.”

Até que esse dia chegue, os investidores devem estar cientes dos sérios defeitos econômicos e éticos da moeda fiat. A verdade incômoda é que a prosperidade e a paz de longo prazo não podem ser sustentadas sob um sistema de moeda fiat. Portanto, é do interesse de todos que a luz da verdade exponha e, assim, acabe com o sistema de moeda fiat. Como isso pode ser alcançado?

Informando proativamente e honestamente as pessoas sobre os males do dinheiro fiat; aconselhando-as a reduzir sua dependência dele, tanto em suas vidas quanto em suas economias; e promovendo um mercado livre para o dinheiro, incentivando inovações tecnológicas na esfera monetária que estejam além do controle do estado. Juntas, essas ações agirão como um raio de sol sobre o sistema de moeda fiat vampires.

09/26/2024 • Mises Wire • Thorsten Polleit

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# Milano🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 esterno notte

Sul balcone a contemplare la #scighera e per ascoltare il gocciolio della nebbia che cade sulle foglie, fumando l'ultima sigaretta di oggi. O la prima di domani, dipende.

Qualche #woke del palazzo di fronte chiama #deliveroo per lo spuntino di mezzanotte.

Immancabile si presenta Anacleto pedalante, che citofona per la consegna, col solito biciclo elettrico che Tesla scansati. Deve andare alla "scala D" e chiede 4 volte se la D è la prima che trova.

Pheega! Ma l'alfabeto! La D può mai essere la prima?

egnente

3 minuti buoni per capire che... no mannaggialaputtana: la D è come nell'alfabeto, la quarta!

Ci saranno sì e no 8 gradi, lo spuntino di mezzanotte è giusto giusto da scongelare per domani semmai, Anacleto-Analfabeto fa la consegna e se ne va in contro mano.

Niente male per uno che dovrebbe pagare le pensioni agli idagliANI. Leggere e scrivere: no. Codice della strada: no Lavoro di merda? sì. Perfettamente integrato, quasi mimetizzato, nella città più qualunque e socialista della penisola a forma di piede.

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The cost of government nanny state:

Assume a person at age 22 gets a job earning $30,000 a year. They never get a raise. Retire at age 65. This gives them an investing time horizon of 43 years. However, instead of having 15.3% paid in FICA tax, they get 15.3% of their income put into the S&P 500. (let's ignore the potential and promise of bitcoin for this example).

• 15.3% of $30,000 = $4,590 per year
• Assume annual rate of return of 9.65% (slightly less than historical S&P return)
• After 43 years they'll have $2,450,000 in their account.
• Using the "4% rule" would provide a retirement income of $98,000 a year or a little over $8,000 per month income for the rest of their life.

According to a CNBC article in 2020 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/how-much-can-you-get-from-social-security-if-you-make-30000-a-year.html Someone making $30,000 year on average in their lifetime will receive $1,357 per month at their full retirement age. This gives a net shortfall of $6,643 we all lose in our current system.

Now of course FICA is social security AND Medicare, but Social Security is 12.4% and Medicare is the remaining 2.9% of the total 15.3% in payroll tax. This equates to something like $317 per month in Medicare benefit, vastly short of the $6,643 remainder on the "privatized social security" account funded with the exact same amount of capital.

Now, the true "kicker" is in the unfortunate scenario of an untimely death. Say you die the day you'd start social security. In our current system you heirs get $255 death benefit (not a typo), in our new scenario they get $2,450,000.

To say that social security is a bad deal may be the understatement of the century. It is beyond time to revamp the system. I prefer no compulsion, but even if compulsion remains it is vastly superior to put this money in your own account you own and not contribute to the ponzi scheme we have now.

@ a3aa0a88:ed2fb51d

The story of Peanut’s seizure has sparked criticism of government overreach, as the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) obtained warrants to raid Mark Longo’s home over a period of five hours to seize Peanut and a raccoon. Many see this prolonged operation—carried out in response to complaints about unlawfully possessed wildlife—as excessive.

https://i.ibb.co/Tb7TBfK/image.png

Supporters argue that Peanut was neither a safety risk nor a health hazard, and question whether state resources could have been better allocated. The incident raises broader concerns over regulations and individual rights.

RIP Peanut

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3 standard cycles later.

Albin was lying on a two meter high rock outcropping. It was warm from Ceb light but he dared not move. His adrenalin was pumping but he could scarcely take a breath for fear of being heard. His thumping heart was so loud it made him paranoid. He crawled forward and peeked over the edge of the low precipice. A dangerous and savage escaped slave was on his trail, ready to scalp and gut him. If only he could flee to his safe zone. He heard a long low whistle from across the valley. A light flashed from amongst some dense shrubbery at an estimated two hundred metres away. He pulled a mirror from his pocket preparing to return the signal. “This increases my chances.” He thought to himself. He knew that their common enemy was behind him and could not possibly see the reflection of Ceb light if he directed said light perpendicularly away from the hunter. He flashed with his mirror five times towards his ally, two second counts between each flash. No immediate response... he waited. Light flashed from the shrubbery and immediately he became aware of movement in the tall grass behind him. He resisted the urge to look back over his shoulder. The sweat exploded off his forehead. He remained still. It seemed like minutes though it was only a few seconds. Light flashed again.

Grassy movement sounds recurred, heart now racing. Third flash. A burst of movement from the rear left at around eight O clock. Albin turned his head and pressed his right cheek against the cooking rock. A tanned thirteen year old youth raced past below him at unbelievable speed. Scruff cloth pants, barefoot with no shirt and a trailing headband. Albin pushed himself up to his hands and knees. “If there is fifty meters distance between us I could risk running for the manor.” The shrubs on the other side of the valley started to rock violently and birthed a boy in a buttoned up shirt with leather shoes and woven short breeches all tailor made. The boy ran with all his might towards the Domitian manor. “This is my chance.” Albin scrambled off the rock and sprinted towards the manor jumping and dodging the hindering bushes and stones. The other party moving parallel to him across the valley. Seth caught sight of Albin but did not change target and kept course. He held a small blunt wooden object caught up to his first victim and proceeded to stab his prey in the back with it. “Ha, you're dead!” Seth exclaimed while immediately changing course to intersect his secondary target before he gets inside the safe zone. “Not fair. It’s not fair you cheat!” The belligerent player cried dismally. Seth did not care for the accusation in spite of not realising that Albin actually sacrificed his ally to gain a tactical advantage. He was determined to get both kills and be victorious. Albin felt less secure in his current situation and began to doubt his previous assessment of fifty meters and thought that an earlier head start might have been a more favourable risk assessment. “Don't panic Albin, focus.” He reproved himself. Recalculating his speed in comparison to the speed of his hunter, estimated the future point of contact. Veering to the right he sagaciously aimed for the far corner of the estate gardens, increasing the distance of his run to the demarcated safe zone considerably more for his rival than for himself. The race became more intense with the hunter closing in... “I’m alive!” Was the triumphant breathless utterance as the knife swiped past the back of his neck mere centimetres. Albin fell on the trimmed lawn panting. Looking back he saw Seth in a similar condition of respiratory suffering. The loser was still far away grumbling and kicking at the weeds. Seth grinned, “I almost had you.” Albin just nodded in agreement. “I'm thirsty... water, milk or wattle gum juice.” “Wattle gum juice!” Seth exclaimed without hesitation. Albin knew that the slave would never say no to the delicacies and confections of the common people but gave him the option to choose either way. He brushed the grass clippings off his clothes and entered through the back door of the manor. In the kitchen he poured juice into three demure clay mugs whilst noticing emanations of a heated conversation from the foyer. His curiosity bested him. Albin went in and sat himself down on the staircase and gulped at his beverage. The adults scarcely noticed him. “The people are ready to accrue for themselves better prospects in the colony!” The tradesman appealed with fervour. “Your proposals would be sensible under normal circumstances but colonial expansion is best suited for peacetime.” Domitius riposted. “This war has been going for almost III standard cycles, are the people supposed to pause their dreams and ambitions for some vaguely defined purpose. Please consider that an expansion program will be beneficial to the war effort eventually.” Domitius knew that he was being evasive and dishonest. He was finding it more difficult to guide the colony according to his vision, their growing despondency was worsened by his deflecting their requests with indirect excuses. Domitius did not want to rule with force, his exerting authoritarian command would only foster resentment towards him among the Kaspian landowners. “We do not have a militia. How would we keep an influx off world slaves servile if the war seems to tilt against the Empire?” Domitius replied with rhetoric. “It is a valid concern. Mechanical labour is the solution. We should convene a council to address these issues and come to consensus.” The traders uncompromising insistence triggered Domitius past the limit of his patience. “This will not turn into a democracy! Tell me what you require and I will consider it, if I do not agree with you I will annul it and appoint an inquisitor to judge and punish all who dissent!” The tradesman lost his composure and shrunk back. “My lord, I am reluctant to admit... there are no requests.” “No requests?” “Yes my lord.” Domitius was puzzled. The tradesman’s son came into the room with his cup of wattle juice and sat down next to Albin. “Father Ecknard very recently informed me of the news... I had applied for a licence half a cycle previously.” Domitius felt uneasy. “What news?” “... A licence has been issued from Kaspa Prime... they are sending extractors to Hithe III.” Domitius went pale. Thousands of implications flooded his mind. Economic problems, ecological issues and a very much more complex political situation. He remained unresponsive for a moment. “I understand. Isidor, you may go.” The tradesman bowed lower than was required of him then reached towards his son. “I apologise for my insolence.” Domitius ignored the man who quickly left the premises. Domitius looked at his son. “Never become too familiar with your subjects, they become derisive. Damn it! He has created more problems for us than he could comprehend.” “Yes pappa.” He agreed with his father instinctively. “Pappa? Are we going to see real space ships!”

“We are...” Domitius appreciated his son's innocence. “big ones.” He smiled with all but his eyes.

Juela Prime - Capitol

Emilien was waiting patiently in the office lobby of a towering high rise structure. One of thousands of competing banks on the Juel Capitol. He had a valid appointment and felt annoyed by the guard hanging around near him and kept noticing the suspicious glances. “What are you looking at.” he hissed from under his hood. “You a spacer?” “Maybe.” The guard did not follow up on his question, he did not leave either. The door slid open and a impeccably well groomed secretary beckoned at him. “Mr Dierre is ready for you.” “Thank you sweetheart.” He brushed past her sticking a pernicious grin right in her face, she gagged. “Welcome Mr Emilien, I hope you had a good trip.” The bank chief executive greeted with outstretched arms. “Nice suit, I always have good trips. Is it very expensive?” The spacer gestured toward the fabric while looking around and sizing up the situation. “More than you know.” The executive smugly responded and proceeded to open a cabinet containing differently labelled flasks filled with various hues of alcohol. “I know quite a lot.” Emilien licked his lips. The banker hesitantly offered a serving which was accepted without vacillation. “I always thought that you void jumpers would be more reluctant accepting unverified consumables?” Dierre smiled a questioning look. Emilien swallowed the strong fluid and inhaled deeply. “I have a clone ready. And an implant that up links me directly to my pod. Don't think that if I have to wake up in a fresh body that I won't remember this place, including your mug.” Emilien tapped lightly on his temple seeming threatening and postured while he spoke. The banker nodded in uneasy amusement. “Excellent, excellent. Ahem, The reason we contacted you Mr Emilien, is because we are in business...” He promptly helped himself to a second glass of... whatever alcohol it was, anticipating a speech and a job description. “...the business of war. Currently we are supplying arms to the Juela fleet, who are at war with the Magarrian Empire. They are for the most part, boycotting our factories... which is a shame really, but understandably so. The Shiv Unity are supporting our enemy logistically yet have not joined them in active combat." He walked around his desk swirling the brown liquid round and round as he talked. "We are trying to coax Osteri aggression, but they have occupied themselves in... other endeavours and don't seem as willing as usual to assault Magar territories.” The spacer frowned and feigned curiosity. “Why would you suppose that be?” He interjected. “We are not sure... don't interrupt me, you break my train of thought.” The banker lied and it did not escape his attention. “Continue by all means.” He waved a bottle at the executive leaning back into a comfy black leather chair. “If we get the upper hand in this war we could control vital Magar territories, the profits our companies could absorb from the moons and planets would be virtually tax free and help to continue fund the war effort...” Emilien cut him off with a snide sarcasm. “How philanthropic. I watch your news propaganda...” Emilien slowly sat upright and uncannily performed like a popular Juel news anchor. “Breaking news. The Magar Empire are allegedly oppressing... slaves, it is reported that the war has driven them to desperation and are driving their labour forces harder than what is... morally justifiable. Any petitions made or pleas for leniency, no matter how trivial is met with... corporal punishment. We must be vocal about their plight and fight for... freedom and liberty. You are with The Report. See you next time, and remember, peace everywhere for all.” He mockingly mimics a news anchor's plastic monotone while folding up and shifting around imaginary papers. The secretary sniggered softly from behind her desk, Dierre frowned. Emilien slouched back into his chair. “What would you have me do boss?” The banker remained silent. “Excuse me one moment.” Dierre touched a pad on his desk, privacy panels slid up separating Dierre from his guest and the lady. He opened comms to an unknown voice. Emilien auto tuned up his sonic receptors slightly and closed his eyes listening in uninvited but inconspicuously. "Yes Dierre, make it quick." “Right, good afternoon sir. I am not sure about this character, Mr Emilien, should we not rather employ one of our own for this contract.” “What? No! There is no one else with the expertise and or reputation required for this investment. He has no prior affiliation to us no, no record. Dierre, just hire the man and stop whining like a little bitch! I don't need this type of crap. This was prearranged, what I don’t need is uncalled for opinionated inputs. We have made the decision and you, you explain what we require of them. So explain to the space clone what we need him to do and how much we are going to pay him for it!” The silence was awkward. “Wh... Yes sir.” The banker was keeping good composure under the condescending circumstances. Emilien smiled, a sly joy filling his soulless being. The comms line closed and the privacy panels retreated into the floor to reveal to the banker Emilien, sitting there grinning like an idiot. “How much are you going to pay me?” “Don't you want to know details of the job concerned?” “No. Just show me the figures in sat.” The director handed him a pad. Emilien looked at the glowing screen, his smiled recurred. “I accept this mission.” He glanced over at the secretary who was unassumingly recording minutes at her desk. “Doing anything tonight sweetheart?” She grimaced. Emilien stood up, “Dierre my good fellow I have to go, need to prepare for whatever it is you corpo scumbags are going to make me do.” “Don't you want to know the details involved?” “Send the info to my pod.” “It is sensitive information.” Emilien indifferently stared at Dierre. “I have a secure line... bitch.” Disbelief shot across his face.

He walked out of the room, looked back grinning an impossibly large grin and winked at the lady. “See you later sweetheart.” She quickly had the door slide closed. "That was unsettling." She mumbled to herself.

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Hey, fellow Nostr voyagers! 🎉 Light those comment sections on fire because this week's round-up is chock-full of celebrity drama juicier than any tabloid, squirrel saboteurs plotting under flickering streetlights 🐿️, and caffeine-fueled chats with a dash of existential confusion. Taylor Swift somehow found herself the poster child of economic debate, while somewhere else entirely, people are pondering if Ryan Holiday could possibly be a lizard—or, you know, just very good at marketing. 😂 And let’s not ignore the philosophical musings comparing AI's decision-making prowess to a slightly tipsy slot machine. So buckle up, and prepare for a wild ride through the quirkiest streets of Nostreland! 🚀

Celebrity Love Drama, Richer Than a Swift Tune 🎶

So, Rabble kicked off a hilarious yet thought-provoking convo about the dynamics between NFL star and pop queen, Taylor Swift. They were questioning the whole hullabaloo about gender and money in their seemingly super-straight relationship.

npub1k50rpvrwcdx4wg69zp38ln7nftt2gsqrr99d4lwqp9hk65asgl4ska95xh weighed in with that classic snark, calling the controversy "small dick energy" – brutal but kinda funny! 😂 Cracks like that don’t leave you winning any brownie points!

npub1qyxlpj2gl6dt2nfvkl4yyrl6pr2hjkycrdh2dr5r42n7ktwn7pdqrdmu7u chimed in on how both political wings act the fool sometimes... Looks like no one's off the hook in this messy media circus!

npub1ym56klev354vx7gr47gtu2s6aahj4j7kn860ykw243adx0fqqrqsf6pdvw hit us with a reality check about 2025—people liking who they like shouldn’t be up for debate, right? They threw shade at bearded dudes getting salty over TayTay’s life choices. Their hashtag game is strong, and they also dropped some major love for #Chappell #Roan on SNL. Cats in pajamas? Yasss, Queen! 🐈‍⬛

npub192klhzk86sav5mgkfmveyjq50ygqfqnfvq0lvr2yv0zdtvatlhxskg43u7 ended with a solid rant about how people should just let folks date whomever without judgment. Seriously, preach! Anyone else feel like popcorn when they dive into those Bible debates? 🍿 #TruthBombs

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Words and Woes: A Spicy Chat

So there was some pretty fiery talk in the Nostr crew today! 🔥 AaNon 🤔 kicked things off with a chat about how certain words were used back in the day, throwing in a bit of a high school nostalgia vibe. npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 kept it straight with some classic political banter about MAGAs and their dislike. npub10v39t5zaz06g7g5cees3phg53hllvy7xzaa97gz2sd4dldeyh68q6vzvup dived in with a sneaky jab at Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, questioning their mainstream appeal. Meanwhile, Rabble dropped some knowledge on slur dynamics, making everyone think twice. The convo took a charmingly chaotic turn with npub192klhzk86sav5mgkfmveyjq50ygqfqnfvq0lvr2yv0zdtvatlhxskg43u7 admitting to being a little high school giddy while sharing meme-worthy gifs. 😂

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Alien Theories and Stoic Stories

Over in another universe of ideas, inpc sparked a wild discussion about Ryan Holiday being possibly wrong, or maybe even a lizard—a real conspiratorial flavor, right? 👽 S!ayer came in hot questioning who Ryan even is, which got them up to speed with a nod to his stoic marketing jazz. And of course, no thread is complete without an added "shill" label for good measure 🎤. The back-and-forth was peppered with laughs and a bit of an "agree to disagree" sentiment as CarlBMenger threw in some shade at the group's understanding of the post, stirring the pot just right. 🍵

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Philosophical Refreshments 🍵 vs. AI Nostradamus 🤖

Looks like CarlBMenger and the crew are debating life choices like picking a coke over water! S!ayer is going full Sherlock, diving into source material and judging books by more than their covers. S!ayer has got that "to each their own" vibe on lock! 🕵️‍♂️

Meanwhile, over in Good Morningville, inpc is spreading those early-day vibes, and everyone's jumping in! Padoc2robert is all about that caffeine life with "GM☕️☕️💜", while quentin gives a cheerful wave with "Good morning 😃". You know it's a sunny day when everyone’s feeling chatty!

And then there's the AI chatter. Rabble is concerned about us handing over our decision-making to AI overlords. npub1wzt7ynrxssfv8gktqhr2czezw9pv3d5yl556yk247pmjw9ucrgsqw8jn3m isn't buying any of it though, dropping classic wisdom like “not the sharpest tool in the shed.” 📚🛠️ npub1a6we08n7zsv2na689whc9hykpq4q6sj3kaauk9c2dm8vj0adlajq7w0tyc reckons AI is just slightly better than fortune tellers anyway.

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AI and the Art of Dodging Decisions

So, in the latest gabfest, npub1hjlev3xn736aqr4ecmjxwwzuu9k523kp5fpz9n862s4lwah2h22sm2zg68 was musing about how most people don't think much anyway, and npub10jnx6stxk9h4fgtgdqv3hgwx8p4fwe3y73357wykmxm8gz3c3j3sjlvcrd chimed in that these folks are becoming the new "midwit" class. Then, npub1j04j8tgajf6w8c5yh2lp65rl9jqdr6kz70h4f95nvx52r7fxekhsvafxku threw in a spicy take comparing AI to vices like alcohol and slot machines when it comes to decision-making. Lots of nodding along from anyone who's felt stressed and decision-fatigued! 🤔

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Risky Business or Passive Daydreams?

inpc sparked some curiosity about passive incomes with a cheeky "What could go wrong?" as they shared a mysterious pic. Padoc2robert wasn't shy, admitting they've done worse and are game to try. Meanwhile, hit with a hint of s seemed a bit lost, asking about the whole passive income buzz. 😅

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Autumn Vibes and Social Butterflies

Picture this: a crisp autumn morning shared by BTCPhoto — and of course, everyone jumped in with their morning greetings. npub1upmh82f2vy9z3k3qwj8amx9lkkhkjjcv45y9yfyqzfj4jj5czz9qhsg8fq flashes a simple "GM!" while Padoc2robert goes all-in with coffee, hearts, and autumn leaves. Meanwhile, npub16t5h7ueq248pxp54rf72a0svt2tzc3jdz5fjfmykqe2m8656f5dszdspn0 jumps in with a pitch on reaching them for investment tips. Gotta love these digital morning vibes! 🌅☕️🍂

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Do Squirrels Have a Nefarious Agenda?

Last but not least, inpc sparked a hilarious debate by wondering out loud if squirrels are out to get us! No one seems sure, but it definitely got some laughs and head scratches. I mean, who knew squirrels could have such big plans? 😆🐿️

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Squirrels, Surveillance, and Some Steamy Brews

Hey there! So, there's been some drama on Nostr lately! It all kicked off with Cyph3rp9nk sharing a wild story about the American government confiscating and killing a man's pet squirrel! 😱 Things got intense quick with inpc dropping a spicy comment about it being a change from other injustices. Then npub14lw90lanf80rkpzv2p5s4hau5yz0gls5mthd7kjvq5aet42t47esx9tsvd chimed in comparing the furry friend's fate to more serious crimes. Drama, huh? 🐿️💥

Then, over in the tech corner, Rabble was digging into the whole surveillance issue with police—not exactly solving crime, right? 😬 npub170lcuam5uwe6shz5qsdl6uakp73txthpchwrz6sa2eprg4fpzmvshhuy0v got technical, mentioning the rights (or lack thereof) on public roads. Meanwhile, npub1vyrx2prp0mne8pczrcvv38ahn5wahsl8hlceeu3f3aqyvmu8zh5s7kfy55 took a shot at big tech and their cozy relationship with the Feds. And npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg wasn't having it—just gave a straight-up "wrong." 🤷‍♂️

JSTR had everyone buzzing about the quality of hotel coffee! ☕ Seems Sergio thinks it tastes better when paired with some freedom—and check out that America gif they shared! 🇺🇸

Last but not least, BTCPhoto had a fun little exchange about tsipouro. nami gave it a thumbs up, and it's safe to say BTCPhoto is loving it too. 🍇🥂

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Rain or Shine, São Paulo's Got It! ☔

So, vikingbitcoin kicks off saying, “It can't rain all the time...” 🌧️, and guess what? Global Sports Central jumps right in with a crack about São Paulo with, “São Paulo yes it can” 😜. Classic back-and-forth between these two—sounds like a typical day with unpredictable São Paulo weather!

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Saints in Hot Water: Drama Alert! 🏈

Ooh, spicy sports update from Global Sports Central who let us know that the New Orleans Saints have kicked Dennis Allen to the curb after yet another loss. They've been in a bit of a rut with a 2-7 season so far. npub1mms49j83r79y45rj7d0sggyc2690jgt0v7zjr6ugk4y40qju3wzqn0kxn4 seems to be loving the chaos with a cheeky “love to see that franchise in disarray” 😂. Drama, drama, drama!

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Quick Hellos! 👋

Just a small shout-out from inpc yelling a friendly "Eh yo! 👊🏼" which was answered warmly by enjoytheride with a big virtual wave and smile 🙋‍♂️🙂. It's the little things that make the community feel cozy!

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TV News with a Twist 📺

archjourney dropped a hilarious video about how they see TV newscasters, teetering on that 'freaky' line according to npub13jp20qere0ue3r2795kz8el6w6cnp9gct43s56z9qu6dnsg989yq7qzq2a dropping a “Freaaaky” in response. Makes election coverage somehow a bit more entertaining! 😆

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Grid Confusion at F1! 🏎️

Global Sports Central mentions some hilarious confusion on the F1 grid where Norris thought it was another Formation Lap while others were just... waiting. It was all a bit of a shuffle with mechanics joining the party late. Sounds like quite the spectacle 🤦‍♂️ and npub1yj69jq9f977y2f7vl96m6stf3rjyf3hym8ekf3g4senlqamz8l3qfsvhk7 can't help but take back something they might have said!

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Chomsky's Take on Democracy 🗽

Chomsky hits us with a heavy discussion from Noam Chomsky about Republicans and democracy from back in June 2021. Always interesting with those socio-political takes!

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Hot Topics and Morning Vibes 🌞

So, here's the latest from our Nostr crew! This week, npub1ducpqhx6zuf64gjgevvtp7geghr2yd6ur3cau84ealfnrgea5mpq8ptpxc dropped a thought-provoking take on critical race theory, and it's sparking conversation. They noted how it's being used as a scare phrase and critiqued how history is often presented in schools. npub1ducpqhx6zuf64gjgevvtp7geghr2yd6ur3cau84ealfnrgea5mpq8ptpxc chimed in, claiming Republicans have turned more 'Trumpista' than anything else 😂.

Meanwhile, [BTCPhoto](npub1vjl6n2llukcc6pe3am2hkwqh8twzh2ymlp7pdrdfq5tlqg08y26sd7ygzx) treated everyone to a gorgeous pic of Ibiza, like a little morning postcard to make us all jealous. npub1ckp277xl73p8qrk9ncshsefj5ur5cq973da3atycnwlky6vqd8xq5r7tnx gave it a sunny thumbs-up with a friendly 'Good morning' and a heart emoji.

On a serious note, [xdamman](npub1xsp9fcq340dzaqjctjl7unu3k0c82jdxc350uqym70k8vedzuvdst562dr) had some deep thoughts on political representation, reminding us that most governments still only represent a minority. npub1etctwmz7lnpynz7h02erex3lf3jtz0me48xhvv7wpr742muvffps7vcr6n brought in a bit of cheeky cynicism with a clown emoji, noting the blame game on citizens for not voting. 🤡

Lastly, a bit of dark humor in play with [inpc](npub1q33jywkl8r0e5g48lvrenxnr3lw59kzrw4e7p0cecslqzwc56eesjymqu0) talking about societal shifts away from violence, and npub14lw90lanf80rkpzv2p5s4hau5yz0gls5mthd7kjvq5aet42t47esx9tsvd had a witty retort about a squirrel bringing a change from typical narratives.

There's lots of fun and witty discussions happening, so don't miss out!

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1. Tides Exist Because of the Moon’s Gravitational Pull

• The tides we see every day are caused by the moon’s gravitational influence on Earth’s oceans. This undeniable, observable phenomenon lines up perfectly with Earth’s rotation and spherical shape. On a flat Earth, you wouldn’t get these reliable tidal shifts. Ignoring this fact requires either not paying attention or just not caring about the truth.

2. Satellites Don’t “Float on Balloons”

• Every single day, satellites orbit Earth, allowing us GPS, global internet, and instant communication worldwide. Their paths follow predictable orbits only possible because Earth is round. The idea that these are “ballooned” is laughable nonsense—without orbits, we’d have no satellite data at all. If you think thousands of satellites are held up by helium balloons, then you’re blind to reality.

3. Star Movements in the Hemispheres Prove a Round Earth

• If you live in the northern hemisphere, stars appear to rotate counterclockwise around the North Star; in the southern hemisphere, they rotate clockwise around the Southern Cross. This is real, observable, and doesn’t happen on a flat Earth map. Pretending otherwise is just lying to yourself.

4. Eclipses and Shadows Don’t Lie

• During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s round shadow crosses the moon. Period. It’s visible, predictable, and impossible to deny unless you’re just making things up. Solar eclipses happen at specific times and locations based on Earth’s spherical geometry—events no “flat map” could ever explain.

5. Radio Waves Hit the Horizon, End of Story

• Radio waves, particularly in the VHF range, travel in straight lines, which means they get blocked by Earth’s curvature. That’s why radio towers can only broadcast within a limited range before the signals are cut off by the horizon. You won’t get this on a flat plane—period. Denying it means ignoring science altogether.

6. Airplanes Lit from Below Prove Curvature

• Watch an airplane at sunset, and you’ll see it lit from underneath as the sun dips below the horizon. On a flat Earth, that would be impossible. The only way this works is if Earth has curvature. If you can’t see that, you’re deliberately closing your eyes.

7. Long-Distance Sailing Doesn’t Work on a Flat Map

• Navigating around Antarctica aligns perfectly with Earth’s spherical geometry. Every mile sailed, every route taken around the globe fits. A flat map would leave distances skewed, rendering long-distance voyages chaotic and inaccurate. Flat Earth “theorists” can’t answer this without throwing logic out the window.

8. 24-Hour Sunlight at the Poles Proves We’re on a Globe

• During the summer, Antarctica experiences continuous sunlight for 24 hours. This is a direct result of Earth’s tilt and spherical shape. There’s no explanation for this on a flat Earth. Refusing to acknowledge this is pure ignorance.

9. The International Space Station (ISS) Exists and Is Visible

• Thousands of people watch the ISS pass overhead. It’s visible from Earth and matches the orbital mechanics that only a spherical Earth can support. If you’re arguing it doesn’t exist or is faked, then you’re living in a fantasy, disconnected from real life.

10. Space Observations Show Earth’s Curvature

• High-altitude photos, seen from commercial flights and even higher from orbit, show Earth’s curvature. People around the world have seen it with their own eyes. Denying this is as absurd as denying the sky is blue.

11. Sea Level Exists Because of Gravity and Curvature

• “Sea level” is about equilibrium, meaning water aligns with Earth’s gravitational pull, which forms a spherical shape. This isn’t “flat” like a table; it’s balanced by gravity. Trying to twist this into evidence for a flat Earth just shows a complete misunderstanding of basic physics.

12. The Sun Moves Predictably Across the Sky Due to Earth’s Tilt

• In the southern hemisphere, the sun’s arc follows a path that only makes sense on a round Earth. The flat Earth model can’t account for this. Ignoring it requires some serious mental gymnastics.

13. Solar Eclipses Only Make Sense on a Globe

• Solar eclipses happen on a predictable path. Only a spherical Earth can account for this kind of accuracy. Flat Earth theory can’t explain it—full stop. Denying it is absurd.

14. Gravity Exists, and It’s Consistent Around the Globe

• Gravity pulls consistently toward Earth’s center. That’s why water “finds its level” in a way that conforms to Earth’s curved surface, not a flat plane. Pretending otherwise is just ignorant.

15. SpaceX and Starlink Technology Work with Earth’s Orbital Mechanics

• SpaceX launches are observed worldwide, and satellites like Starlink provide global internet by orbiting Earth. This technology relies on understanding Earth’s curvature. Claiming this doesn’t prove a round Earth is ludicrous.

16. Basic Observation Debunks Flat Earth Claims

• From the horizon line to ships disappearing as they move away, basic observation of the world around us debunks flat Earth nonsense. Flat Earthers choose to ignore obvious facts, invent conspiracies, and cling to ideas that insult human intelligence.

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The flat Earth idea isn’t just false; it’s willfully ignorant, rejecting the most basic principles of science and observation. It requires ignoring a mountain of evidence, twisting facts, and inventing wild conspiracies to make sense. It’s a belief that exists because of intellectual dishonesty, not because of reality.

Flat Earth is a failed idea that belongs in the trash heap of discredited pseudoscience. The Earth is a globe. Deal with it.

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Hey there, fellow Nostriches! Grab your metaphorical popcorn because the Nostr neighborhood has been anything but dull lately. From the high-stakes thriller of world politics, where everyone's pointing fingers and debating U.S. elections amidst Gaza conflict chatter (and someone might have mentioned dropping aid, no biggie, right?), to our very own live-stream detective hunt at #LaBitConf—let's just say streaming isn't as instant as our ramen. And speaking of food for thought, how about those blasts from the cryptocurrency past, imagining Bitcoin cosying up to the military-industrial complex? Nostr really knows how to mix serious debate with sensational drama, just like a chirpy DJ might effortlessly remix Tidal tunes with some on-platform vibes. Curious? Dive into the juicy rundown and find out what’s stirring our digital pot of narratives! 🍿🔗

The Nostr Debate & Hot Takes About World Politics 🌍

Hey there! So, Rabble sparked a fiery debate with a post about the US elections and their ties to the Gaza conflict. It's got everyone buzzing! 🐝 npub15dnln6cukw3yrflnv3hnrntdt9amh0uw466u6tns05ymqp3nal4qzz3lfc didn’t hold back, suggesting the US drop aid to Israel. Talk about a conversation starter! 🤔

npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 chimed in, critiquing US military actions in the Middle East with a spicy take on the military-industrial complex. Apparently, it's not about who’s in charge—just that cash keeps flowing!

npub1fvxn0kn8ecg8vh4h9q83t9d7ga2zh0xqpxhr3t5alszqfeg3akasxkmrnu sarcastically went along, pondering the irony of voting for peace yet supporting war. Meanwhile, the axiom teased some with, “so you are a trumpist now?” 😆

npub1ne57gg8xphmfek292yyg9nlyfkgh273vtrguy8qz0fuh05frvrpqn2t7zd reminded everyone that evil thrives regardless of currency type. Oof, deep! And in true mic-drop fashion, npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac chimed in bluntly, agreeing that presidents are just temporary players in a perpetual game.

npub1hk9w6k87u3lxg5swcfgtwrhaye95j67rlrp9v0pxczuy8jcumdfsa3ppcr couldn’t help but laugh along (literally with, “THIS 👆”). Meanwhile, npub18kzz4lkdtc5n729kvfunxuz287uvu9f64ywhjz43ra482t2y5sks0mx5sz is just over here trying to make sense of it all.

Catch all the action and dive into the hot debate vibes! 🔥 Check out the full convo here.

Bitcoin, War, and Gold: Nostr's Hot Take!

Okay, so things got pretty heated when someone threw out the political debate bomb. 😮 Basically, if you're voting third-party, you're "part of the problem," but not everyone buys that. npub1u87g378r0puytp7zxdl5awg2gmqvqc3vgtnh6a0vfgm4y8es7c3qam93f7 was quick to dive into how gold's physicality made violence profitable, but Bitcoin flips the game. Then npub1h4lrzqnrne72xj00yl3zzr0k6qn93cqe5g4vvkfechs6mn89mwyqfa2jcm noted that gold wasn't everyone's cup of tea – not democratic enough! Bitcoin, though? A whole other story.

npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku threw in, "Pentagon and bureaucracy need wars," and npub1ne57gg8xphmfek292yyg9nlyfkgh273vtrguy8qz0fuh05frvrpqn2t7zd jumped in on the Bitcoin train, saying even defense bigwigs might cozy up to Bitcoin. Someone's gotta pay those war companies, as npub1u87g378r0puytp7zxdl5awg2gmqvqc3vgtnh6a0vfgm4y8es7c3qam93f7 quipped, right? The convo closed on an entertaining note with npub1h4lrzqnrne72xj00yl3zzr0k6qn93cqe5g4vvkfechs6mn89mwyqfa2jcm lamenting the plight of the peasant getting paid in anything but gold. Classic stuff!

Check out the full convo here.

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Tunes and Tech: Nostr's Tidal Wave 🌊

Rabble kicked off a chat on why Nostr and Tidal aren’t more of a thing together. They’re saying it launched in June and needs some love, like sharing songs or auto-login with a nsec—hello, convenience! npub15mnm7whul7h7jn6ejnhnpl5n9tp69y8w28jh3vefz4mmxszfldzqwuett7 totally backed this and is a Tidal fan!

npub1wzt7ynrxssfv8gktqhr2czezw9pv3d5yl556yk247pmjw9ucrgsqw8jn3m chimed in saying everyone’s assuming npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m has a sneaky master plan. npub1nl8r463jkdtr0qu0k3dht03jt9t59cttk0j8gtxg9wea2russlnq2zf9d0 said Tidal should just join the Nostr party too. Sounds like a jam session in the making, doesn't it? 🎶

Check out the full convo here.

🎧 Tune In to the Tidal Tattle!

So, the crew was all buzzing about music and Nostr connections! npub1csamkk8zu67zl9z4wkp90a462v53q775aqn5q6xzjdkxnkvcpd7srtz4x9 kicked things off saying they would totally dig Tidal more if it played nice with Nostr. Enter npub1raustrrh5gjwt03zdj8syn9vmt2dwsv9t467m8c3gua636uxu89svgdees with a hot take on platforms being all about those intellectual property rents. the axiom chimes in, reminiscing about when Coracle did a Tidal crossover - sounds like a tech fairy tale, right? 😂

Meanwhile, npub1n0pdxnwa4q7eg2slm5m2wjrln2hvwsxmyn48juedjr3c85va99yqc5pfp6 wonders if they could DJ on zap.streams with Tidal - an epic mashup in the making? elsat suggests Tidal should pony up resources to smoothen this collab - like, why not! And the convo wouldn't be complete without npub1csamkk8zu67zl9z4wkp90a462v53q775aqn5q6xzjdkxnkvcpd7srtz4x9 declaring "based coracle" - a new mantra, maybe?

Check out the full convo here.

🏈 Is This the Straightest Relationship Ever?

Rabble stirred the pot with a spicy question about a celeb couple. They're perplexed about the buzz on an NFL superstar dating a pop icon – isn't that, like, the epitome of hetero? 🙃 People were quick to jump in, debating if it's the money, the success, or simply the sheer fame that's got people talking.

From debates about gender roles to who holds the purse strings, this convo's colorful with no dull moment in sight. It's like a red carpet chat turned philosophical! 😂

Check out the full convo here.

What's Good, Drama Crew?! 😄

Hey there! So, the gang's been getting pretty lively on Nostr lately! Here's the scoop:

• AaNon 🤔 kicked things off, reminiscing about high school and how some words were tossed around as insults. Classic high school throwback vibes there. 📚

• laanwj kept it cheeky with a zing about dating the same species. Always the comedian! 😂

• npub192klhzk86sav5mgkfmveyjq50ygqfqnfvq0lvr2yv0zdtvatlhxskg43u7 went full-on social justice warrior, talking about relationships, patriarchy, and the joys of midwestern arguing. Also, major shoutout to Chappell Roan for being amazing on SNL—a fan in the house! 🙌

• Derek Ross and npub18dmnnurjmuxnwxj38c029wt8e36naeqvder00k437ry876tf77kqukzep6 spiced things up with political drama, mixing in Trump and MAGAs with some serious shade. 🥶

• npub1qyxlpj2gl6dt2nfvkl4yyrl6pr2hjkycrdh2dr5r42n7ktwn7pdqrdmu7u popped in with some commentary on property damage versus politics, stirring the pot, as always. Stir it up! 🥄

• npub1ym56klev354vx7gr47gtu2s6aahj4j7kn860ykw243adx0fqqrqsf6pdvw summed it up with a classic facepalm. Haters gonna hate, right? 🤦🏽‍♂️

• npub1k50rpvrwcdx4wg69zp38ln7nftt2gsqrr99d4lwqp9hk65asgl4ska95xh threw in some sass about "small dick energy"—yikes, burn! 😂🔥

• And last but not least, npub10v39t5zaz06g7g5cees3phg53hllvy7xzaa97gz2sd4dldeyh68q6vzvup wrapped it up but wasn't too impressed by the earlier comments. Always the hard one to please!

That's the latest from our Nostr fam—never a dull moment!

Check out the full convo here.

Words and Whirlwinds 🌀

Hey there! Man, things have been buzzing on Nostr. The chat got a little heated and thought-provoking when some folks pulled out the big guns on language and slurs. Rabble rolled in with some wisdom, pointing out how slurs hold their bite through inherent homophobia. It ended on an agreeable note with npub1n4st260vuvdsdev4tjm6t80fesld26dvv93ndvvkcah3lqfax7hqse4mvu giving a nod, saying, "it makes sense." Meanwhile, npub192klhzk86sav5mgkfmveyjq50ygqfqnfvq0lvr2yv0zdtvatlhxskg43u7 was having a throwback to high school days, spicing up the chat with a little confusion and laughter! 😂

Check out the full convo here

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G’day, Down Under 🌏

Big news! nos.social dropped a bombshell announcement about Nostr being live in Australia and New Zealand. It's all about making things smoother for newbies, like a fancy new onboarding flow. Folks were stoked, especially npub1ajt9gp0prf4xrp4j07j9rghlcyukahncs0fw5ywr977jccued9nqrcc0cs, who can’t wait to share it with their Kiwi pals! 🥝

tyiu found a neat tweak for better performance, which got a shoutout from montzstar. 阿甘 pointed out a handy update on blocked user visibility.

Check out the full convo here

Art Discoveries and Nostr Revelations 🎨✨

So, @colincz was feeling a little left out, lamenting how they and @noicemag weren't popping up in the art discover tab. 😔 Meanwhile, nostr:npub1ym56klev354vx7gr47gtu2s6aahj4j7kn860ykw243adx0fqqrqsf6pdvw popped in with a cheeky "#ZAP?" 😂

The convo heated up when @Josh Brown praised some amazing work that @montzstar did. Apparently, they made some outstanding improvements that got loads of attention. 🤩

There was a little technical confusion corrected by @mplorentz, which clarified some spooky hidden notes. And shoutout to nostr:npub1cks0cex96uww2ftvjj0l35m9a0vj0wxaqvz6psmnza2v5mc95a4s2m46kh for confirming that our buddy @noicemag is shining in there after all! 🌟

@tyiu admitted to making some changes for type safety but promised to pull back for the good of Comingle. And in the end, @colincz was just all eyes, apparently excited about these updates. 👀

Check out the full convo here.

Bluesky Elation and Token Banter ☁️💰

Over in the Bluesky scene, @Rabble dropped some big news: Bluesky bagged $15 million with a new partner from Blockchain Capital on the board! 💸🎉

nostr:npub1cdak4q4f3h3k3sgyh0rd5dj4w8k95f3mquzh6z3ew76vqkh60e3slyczgz was all cheers, glad they might replace Jack. Meanwhile, nostr:npub160cxmqcwxwf87s30n5qv2xqtdgr3lrszg4eut2k4ck3lzll48hpsqupad5 wasn't as optimistic, throwing out a quick "NGMI" (Not Gonna Make It). 😂

Then nostr:npub10mxnle348mzv2dnj0ylgz3zu9gceenc29x9fr4m6mnars66j7vxsnkn8mj predicted a token launch soon, which is always spicy in the cryptosphere! Finally, nostr:npub1pgwm722vrkfaq8245wgu39c6kn69hrsl53hnmnpqhfn5p2ve2xrqmnks7n shared a little inside scoop about a missed investment opportunity but vouched for Blockchain Cap’s professionalism. 💼

Take a peek at the full convo here.

BlueSky and the Big Money Dilemma 🌐💸

Hey! So, everyone was buzzing about Kinjal and her ambitious, open approach to long-term projects like building a social network. There's this thought that many of the successful Nostr devs have made their cash and built strong ties in Bitcoin or Web 2.0, which sets them up for these long-haul gigs. But Kinjal? Maybe not so much yet. 🤔

npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac dropped in with a simple, "And how do we feel about that?" which kind of set the tone for a deep dive.

npub1jp5hag5r7rn2nh9v5m2n5jjyyrmgfr89jgpt6hd5n2hjmx3s7thq6hu6ua gave a nod to the crypto tipping scene, saying, "Bluesky is cool, but Nostr and others do better justice for content posters." So if you want that Twitter-like vibe but aren’t into Bitcoin, BlueSky might be your jam.

npub18nagz6a53yh6d05e8trj487dhvyfhh4qchvsz87jqng4g4zl5tvs825evl had some serious questions about how BlueSky handles content moderation, hinting that Nostr's wild, free nature is both its strength and potential headache.

Jumping into the fray, laanwj chimed in about VC money messing with the decentralization dream, and npub16zf05np625wqzz80euvyc2r37y6r2vfwcatj80k4rdjlyqq3sals5e8sln summed it up with a pithy "the great enshittification continues." Classic, right? 😂

Oh, and npub1dskk3wspds53g9larr48cp4hxlkpg0ma2mtclh2y5key3pr9yhkqjvjuc2 kept it light with a popcorn GIF—he's definitely seen this show before.

Finally, npub10dpmrjay77xcu6z2sxsv7h7dfl6puzcxgyd6ssxkwh9th8sdgk3sj39zws suggested a crowd-funding idea for Nostr development: even pitched devs to draft a roadmap. 🚀 npub1njst6azswskk5gp3ns8r6nr8nj0qg65acu8gaa2u9yz7yszjxs9s6k7fqx wrapped it up with, "They're going to love that lol," which sounds like a cheeky way to cap off the convo!

Check out the full convo here.

Why Musk Thinks He'll Be F*cked If...

So there was some juicy chatter about Musk on Nostr recently! It all kicked off with npub1n7pcd890elndxn3s63syf0ypm5jqsk9jng0khufwgnhu33k4xanq2a9qu4 just dropping a "Why?" — which, let's be honest, is the perfect way to dive into Musk drama. Then, npub1xm0rvnpw52nh7tk59ntly55w74rmd2cqvt3kg5zxrzz3rlssvspsk0gs6s threw some shade linking Trump and Musk together. Now, npub170lcuam5uwe6shz5qsdl6uakp73txthpchwrz6sa2eprg4fpzmvshhuy0v felt bad for the people working for Musk, making us all think 🤔. But things got spicy when Spyre decided to vent about jealousy and mediocrity — ouch, right?

And npub1sgx8tkmn2gm4s788tssy5kgx0qjw9q8efda7wmg4afuyx2smdcjq2q7wnj threw in a sarcastic comment about TDS with that classic 😬 emoji, adding some humor to the convo. Meanwhile, npub1mlru0pflddcmdv7xk5nhv7stnr0vugcm5jj64wlwevhqxnpuv96qexgrpv seemed to find it all entertaining, admitting they'd love to see it play out either way!

Then npub1f48mtlc2lwxqfekxuql4z2qmvezhd7v9uk7rfga8accs585zrars56lpgj predicted some consequences for Musk if Trump wins, sparking more predictions. And npub134u08yp6rdcgcamfdcra9aysvhne9wpssft8ntm9qvfu95erxdcqx9qjkm dunked on someone else's takes, not holding back with the critique! Meanwhile, jack just chimed in with agreement, keeping it simple and sassy.

Oh, and just to wrap up, npub1vyrx2prp0mne8pczrcvv38ahn5wahsl8hlceeu3f3aqyvmu8zh5s7kfy55 popped back in with another jab at someone's moneymaking tactics. Classic Internet banter!

Check out the full convo here

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Dystopian Vibes!

Over in the tech corner, Rabble stirred up some thoughts on how weird it is that websites charge you to download your own uploads. Like, what kind of wild world are we living in, right? 😳

npub1r3g2jscks7ax4zetlz42azu5sptesfnkxzg8mj0ht897p77erd2sykzdkk totally vibed with the outrage, calling out the "cage we all live in." Heavy stuff 🧠. Meanwhile, npub1wyjax4yl0ss550xjjsjz4vhntrn4pj9kkza99lq8s970gkts66wq5kq8se just hit us with a shocked emoji — because sometimes, that's all you need to say. Can't wait to see where this convo goes next!

Check out the full convo here

Subscriptions: Too Many or Just Right? 🤔💸

So, the chat kicked off with jack ranting about all the subscriptions they’re drowning in these days—can you believe it? Apps are charging left and right, and npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c is right there with them, having just ditched their account over it. Then The: Daniel⚡️ jumps in to say they're cool with paying some sats for a one-time deal but are so over monthly charges. 💸

But wait—Rabble, ever the devil's advocate, says these subscriptions are part of a sustainable biz model! They also roasted about Nostr's lack of subscription features and even got into a mini-spat about selling back their own content—talk about throwing shade! ☁️🙃 laanwj tried to bring in a more practical angle with BOLT-12 talk, hinting at potential innovations. Keep an eye on that one! 👀

Check out the full convo here.

Spanish Explainer: Aquí to Allá 📚🌎

Rabble decided to take us on a lil’ Spanish journey, sharing insights on the differences between "aquí" and "allá." Super educational! 🤓👍 Then npub1p3rfw7wscmzfn9z3fa74nzgyqe70p57j8mws0e88dh7awjepmzcq7jgxl9 gave us the scoop from Paraguay, saying the terms are totally interchangeable, especially among South American neighbors. Gotta love those cultural tidbits!

Meanwhile, npub1mwkpvd2snl2tlxtmtgvrj2vr5mwf2nmuynua4a0jmzgtkvwt93rq8pd09j shared their experience from Spain, claiming the pronunciation is basically the same. But then PABLOF7z dropped a hilarious truth bomb: in Buenos Aires, if you use "aquí" or "allí," you might just get charged double! 😂 Classic Argentinian humor.

Check out the full convo here.

Linguistic Lols and Newbie Nostr Troubles

Hey! You've got to check out this fun little back-and-forth over on Nostr. It all started when npub16d8gxt2z4k9e8sdpc0yyqzf5gp0np09ls4lnn630qzxzvwpl0rgq5h4rzv dropped a comment about regional language differences. Obviously, it sparked quite the convo! 😄 npub1p3rfw7wscmzfn9z3fa74nzgyqe70p57j8mws0e88dh7awjepmzcq7jgxl9 threw in a YouTube link with a classic "😂"—you know it’s gonna be funny when they use that emoji! And npub107xyuzq67hf8qxafwr5sprscju20pzxmuhgg6lkkwdwa63qce8xq4zyq7u joined with a “Jajajaj”, because why not, right?

Rabble was joking about how they never say "aquí", but only "acá". Then npub1nccwjspr3nv7h67xx2qhdh2dzzvpyy55gte2dsu8yl7xd7n74y9qydz7mj jumped in with some wisdom on the "acá" vs. "allá" debate, and npub1xrs2z2tqvur2tsg9xq3ye2uy7nmxyjclrwzp3tr9r3g4dnewqx2qtz2hzv summed it up with, "Bro, that is a good demonstration for the usage of these words." Pretty insightful, huh?

Meanwhile, Rabble kicked off another chat about a newcomer getting overwhelmed by Bitcoin enthusiasts. Derek Ross was bummed, saying it’s a loss for Nostr since the newcomer didn’t get how to navigate to what they loved—like music or photography! elsat thinks it's more about BigCo social media's influence than the Bitcoin crowd. Maybe Nostr needs better onboarding advice, ya know?

Lastly, npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z wondered which app led to this Bitcoin overwhelm and suggested maybe spicing up those default relays a bit! It ended on a thought from Rabble about how the vibe wasn’t necessarily unfriendly, it’s just the newcomer's mismatch.

Catch up on all the threads and have a chuckle or two! 🤗

Check out the full convo here

Nostr Newbie Vibes and User-Friendly Feels 🛠️✨

So, bro, there was this whole interesting talk going down about how Nostr can sometimes feel like an exclusive club of tech nerds (guilty! 😂) and how we might need to take a beat. Linda was like, "Hey, maybe we need to be more welcoming and not assume everyone’s into Bitcoin, okay?" Preach! 🙌 It's like, just chill and get to know the newbies a bit better, ya know?

The homie npub1fd0t73r8vn3nqezdg93fyj5x5u79zucf3jaspkc2dy9sjuqx5z8qftjal4 chimed in with a shoutout to nostr algorithms. Meanwhile, jack mentioned how Nostr is actually super easy to hop onto, no phone or email drama needed. But hey, maybe a bit of a “setup wizard” wouldn’t hurt, right?

elsat gets it too, backing up that idea with a 💯 emoji and tossing in some future testing thoughts. I mean, who doesn't love a good wizard? 🧙‍♂️

And then there’s another thread with our buddy Rabble stirring the pot about Bluesky and its corporate ties. The reply section was buzzing, I tell ya. 🤔

Check out the full convo here

🎭 The Bluesky Drama and Decentralization Debate

Hey there! So let me tell you about this spicy convo everyone’s buzzing over on Nostr. Our buddy Sebastix kicked things off with a comment about all the chatter on Bluesky – it's like everyone’s talking platform, not protocol! Then BITKARROT swooped in with some truth bombs about VCs wrecking potential greats. Ouch! 😅

Enter npub1jp5hag5r7rn2nh9v5m2n5jjyyrmgfr89jgpt6hd5n2hjmx3s7thq6hu6ua, who took a jab at DeSo’s founder, saying SEC called them out while playing a decentralization charade. It's turning into a showdown! 🚀 Meanwhile, npub17xu3rtcu0ftqw03mswa8a2ngz3nsgrs0h0wjv4z942qwvhp8fs3qzcadls had a wise take – fix the funding, fix the world.

npub1j04j8tgajf6w8c5yh2lp65rl9jqdr6kz70h4f95nvx52r7fxekhsvafxku dropped some history knowledge bombs about the web’s early days and how we swung from non-profit roots to the VC-fueled chaos of today. There's definitely some food for thought there, huh? 🤔

Oh, and we’ve got npub1qqqqqqyz0la2jjl752yv8h7wgs3v098mh9nztd4nr6gynaef6uqqt0n47m throwing in some cryptic vibes with "did:bake:perverse-incentives." The plot thickens!

Sounds like a whirlwind, right? Dive into the full convo here to catch every twist and turn! 🍿

Bluesky Talk: Dreaming of a Permissionless Protocol 🌌

Alright, so over in Nostr land, there's been a pretty heated debate simmering around the whole ATprotocol and Bluesky thing. Our buddy over at npub1zjhuw98f8f2dk2446eg0j4rr827kpje60uljwfe22nyjna6emjxqa646su kicked things off with a deep dive into the nitty-gritty of building open vs. constrained platforms, pointing to Twitter as a cautionary tale! 😮

laanwj hit the nail on the head with, "a certain form of organization inherently can only build a certain kind of thing." Don't get him started on Bluesky’s user base—they're all about that moderation life, apparently. 😂

npub1ytg0nw4mdx3sgtemsvxqx7kymqdlhvaedt2fp0y39j8acd0704hsy5ws69 jumped in with a suggestion that moderation should maybe be on an independent platform? Hmm. 🤔 npub1npm9jsmmgy08fvjlsj8ep50pzpj92k8q5q68d32x3t733e79fd0sg5yfdc agreed, calling out Bluesky’s dual role as a client and data host. Basically, they’re like, "watch out guys, there's a lot of interests stirring the pot here."

And omg, melvincarvalho is all about creating this super open internet—kind of like mixing up the best parts of Nostr, Bluesky, and Solid into one dreamy platform. 🌼 Such a rose-colored vision, right?

Then npub1zkheuq5dhyh9p42x9l6cxlke2t2p4x79y9ylhh4yt07qmnxhcmvsqfqqcm threw in a classic gif and stressed how hard it really is to build a protocol without it turning into some full-on platform instead. Respect to those protocol builders! 🙌

Finally, Rabble mentioned that both user base expectations and funding seem to be huge issues, implying that people might not even want an open protocol at all.

Check out the full convo here

🎉 AI or Nay? What's Old is New Again! 🤔

Hey! So, our buddy Rabble shared an interesting thought about people letting AI take over their decision-making—kinda like saying it's inevitable. I mean, are we ready to become AI-navigated zombies? 😜

npub1wzt7ynrxssfv8gktqhr2czezw9pv3d5yl556yk247pmjw9ucrgsqw8jn3m wasn't having it and called out the “not the sharpest tool in the shed” peeps for being intellectually lazy. Ouch, but fair point!

Then, npub1a6we08n7zsv2na689whc9hykpq4q6sj3kaauk9c2dm8vj0adlajq7w0tyc chimed in with a spicy jab, saying AI might as well be on par with horoscopes and fortune tellers. 😂

npub1hmmjfah37m94fycvyw42y0mrnw96ke73948n03fmfr5gj2fs77xq0juy2s threw in a Darwinian twist, suggesting that maybe AI will separate the smart ones from the rest. Survival of the smartest, huh? 🤓

npub1hjlev3xn736aqr4ecmjxwwzuu9k523kp5fpz9n862s4lwah2h22sm2zg68 was a bit savage, hinting that most people don't think anyway, so… maybe AI will upgrade the human race? 🙈

To wrap it up, npub10jnx6stxk9h4fgtgdqv3hgwx8p4fwe3y73357wykmxm8gz3c3j3sjlvcrd reckons those who rely on AI might become the "midwit" class. Burn! 🔥 And npub1j04j8tgajf6w8c5yh2lp65rl9jqdr6kz70h4f95nvx52r7fxekhsvafxku brought it home with a real-life analogy of stressed-out folks seeking relief—be it AI or other vices. Been there, can relate!

Check out the full convo here

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🌍 Hola Montevideo, What's Happening Here? 🌐

Rabble greeted Montevideo with a casual "Hola," sparking some travel vibes among the group! ✈️ Maybe they're globe-trotting or just dreaming of it, who knows?

the axiom isn't about to miss a chance to plug nos.social while npub1hem398ca067g8nq8xs2t3sf05gzk09chvu7hfqy5wda7slj6kqcsmkwsrn got skeptical over a mysterious bin file. Malware scare? Nah, just the Nostr world keeping us on our toes! 😅

Meanwhile, Negr0 noticed how close they are to Argentina and dropped a friendly reminder about their whereabouts. It's a small world after all! 🌍

Check out the full convo here

Nostr Adventures and Ramen Cravings

So, Rabble has been quite the globetrotter, hinting at some secret plans about "jumping over the pond," whatever that means! 🌍 Everyone's buzzing about a get-together at "la crypta" with Negr0 planning to join the fun too. 🎉

And there's some tech drama going on—apparently, the new note button in the Nos dev build is kaput, so Rabble had to switch to Primal. But they seem to be handling it like a champ! 😄

Meanwhile, in the ramen department, seems like everyone's drooling over some delicious noodle action! 🍜 Josh Brown and npub1x2jfa9zvrr9hszwhq368lc2dupefnx8mk592tvgyur8rw2mkxvks27ggyl are particularly excited about how tasty it looks. Coconut milk, anyone? npub1uw6lgv5qyexx68fwgdmwt3w7v3dwv679sray2ncpkug70ad7a8gqut3tay must be onto something exotic there!

Oh, and Rabble had everyone chuckling about their "parody map" post. Spyre gave us a laugh about Reddit, claiming it's just a political circus. I mean, who knew some maps could spark such lively debates, right? 🗺️

Check out the full convo here.

Decentralized Dreams and Elon Events 😂

So, our buddy nostr:mmasnick has been stirring things up with his latest essay! He’s coined the term "Elon Musk Events" (love it, right?) for moments that drive folks to experiment with decentralized social platforms. It’s all about finding out what cool new features these protocols can offer that centralized systems can't.

While folks chewed over his thoughts on decentralization and the perks of protocols over platforms, npub1a6we08n7zsv2na689whc9hykpq4q6sj3kaauk9c2dm8vj0adlajq7w0tyc jumped in with a surprisingly sweet (though a bit "cringe" by Nostr standards) thank you for all the epic content. Npub18nagz6a53yh6d05e8trj487dhvyfhh4qchvsz87jqng4g4zl5tvs825evl kept it simple—big thanks for the share!

Meanwhile, npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac went on a deep dive, comparing the whole Bluesky hype to a Bitcoin vs. Shitcoin scenario—we're talking about some serious decentralization vibes, folks. The takeaway? Nostr should be itself and not worry about competing with old-school platforms. New and interesting use cases are where it's at!

Check out the full convo here

🚀 Buzzing About BlueSky and Nostr 🚀

Hey, so things are getting spicy in the Nostr crew's convo! Our pal laanwj is throwing some serious shade at BlueSky, saying it's basically just Twitter 2.0 and that folks are gonna jump ship just like when the whole Musk thing happened. Drama alert! 😱

Then, npub10wsue32ln2w2a9gsy52ylk359n8ams4zj7932j4knvxlk2p84vmq5y3hd3 is vibing on the Reddit angle, talking about how engaging it can be—if only it wasn't so censored. They’re dreaming of a Nostr version that mixes Reddit's community vibes with its unique spin on social interaction. Sounds like an app world we wouldn’t mind visiting! 🤔

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🌐 Nos.today Confusion Casualty 🌐

Oh man, Rabble is clarifying some misunderstandings about Nos.today—turns out it's not linked to nos.social at all. Npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z kinda owned up to the confusion, admitting the domain is a bit of a head-scratcher. 🤷‍♂️

Npub1q7qyk7rvdga5qzmmyrvmlj29qd0n45snmfuhkrzsj4rk0sm4c4psvqwt9c chimed in with a sweet "no worries" and shared that the whole thing's a fun hobby project. They're wondering if they need a new name or if things are getting mixed up with nos.lol. Maybe it’s time for a brainstorm party to find the perfect name? 🤔🧠

Check out the full convo here

SDK Dreams and Library Love

Looks like everyone's buzzing about Nostr SDKs for Android! 📱 npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5 is all about using amethyst libraries, with a nod to some cool rust options. hugo drops Nostrino into the mix, which got some thumbs up from tyiu. But Rabble throws a bit of shade on the project’s recent progress. laanwj just shrugs it off with a classic "many such cases" moment. 😂

Check out the full convo here

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Hometown Anthems & Country Roads

Rabble is feeling all the hometown love with a song that nails the Humboldt vibe. 🎶 npub1flj222ym4truxx6y4qvp6lsgkxmr8mutv7rr8qmmns4fq0lkhurq9eagfz shares a northern Alberta tune—seems like these peeps have a soundtrack for every place! npub1ryemg5z53pes6el7gwy8rwvzsycg56sxr0twjceszhu296hyh55qryc2xh reminisces about a smooth country song penned by their dad, dreaming of coastlines and sunshine. Talk about family retro vibes! 😎

Check out the full convo here

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Nostr Booth Buzz at #LaBitConf

The #nostrbooth is ready to roll at #labitconf thanks to Rabble. Excitement is in the air with Nostr talks and a full Nostr day coming up! npub18lmyh47aua400qaf230zlv7wsnvjr0nv3sz08hrvf7nnfnm7hqfq9599uz can't get enough of the booth vibes, giving it a big cheer. 🙌 Sebastix is feeling the Nostr love too, while OpenMike is desperately trying to dodge the FOMO bug by asking if it'll be streamed. 🤔

Check out the full convo here

Lost Stream Shenanigans 🤔

Looks like Rabble is on the hunt for a stream but came up empty! They were scouring the web for talks but it seems like it might be a waiting game since these recordings take ages to pop up online—based on last year's experience. 🕵️‍♂️ Maybe it's time to catch up on other stuff while waiting for the uploads?

Check out the full convo here

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Pull up a chair, folks, because we're diving into a little feel-good moment on nos.social that proves community spirit is alive and kicking! In a world where everyone’s sharing selfies, our buddy Rabble threw a virtual high-five to OpenSats for their relentless support of the Nostr ecosystem. While the conversation is still awaiting some juicy replies, it's the kind of positivity upgrade we can all benefit from—as if life just got a software update that actually fixed bugs instead of introducing new ones. Grab your reading glasses or your third cup of coffee (no judgment), and get ready to see the support sparks fly!

A Little Support Goes a Long Way!

So, our good friend Rabble has been spreading the love a bit, giving a shoutout to OpenSats for continuously supporting the Nostr ecosystem! 🎉 It's always awesome to see members of the crew lifting each other up, right? Not much banter this time around since nobody replied (as of yet!), but who doesn't love a good support post to keep the good vibes going?

Check out the full convo here.

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/11/04/the-depopulation-plan-includes-350000-per-day/ The depopulation plan includes 350,000 per day The whole world united through the United Nations to solve a global problem

wef #unitednations #unesco #agenda2030 #politics #usa

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Citrine 0.5.5

• Only store 1 replaceable event
• Temporally remove the restore contacts feature

Download it with zap.store, Obtainium, f-droid or download it directly in the releases page

If you like my work consider making a donation

Verifying the release

In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and hopefully verified that as well), you'll first need to import the keys that have signed this release if you haven't done so already:

bash gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys 44F0AAEB77F373747E3D5444885822EED3A26A6D

Once you have his PGP key you can verify the release (assuming manifest-v0.5.5.txt and manifest-v0.5.5.txt.sig are in the current directory) with:

bash gpg --verify manifest-v0.5.5.txt.sig manifest-v0.5.5.txt

You should see the following if the verification was successful:

bash gpg: Signature made Fri 13 Sep 2024 08:06:52 AM -03 gpg: using RSA key 44F0AAEB77F373747E3D5444885822EED3A26A6D gpg: Good signature from "greenart7c3 <greenart7c3@proton.me>"

That will verify the signature on the main manifest page which ensures integrity and authenticity of the binaries you've downloaded locally. Next, depending on your operating system you should then re-calculate the sha256 sum of the binary, and compare that with the following hashes:

bash cat manifest-v0.5.5.txt

One can use the shasum -a 256 <file name here> tool in order to re-compute the sha256 hash of the target binary for your operating system. The produced hash should be compared with the hashes listed above and they should match exactly.

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Week 9 had some redeeming value, and it’ll have more if the Bucs cover the spread tonight against the Chiefs, in which case I’ll win a double-week in my home pool.

As it stands I went 4-1 ATS to kick of Q3 in Circa Millions, and I was so close to being 5-0 but Danny Dimes, the great Danny Dimes, failed on two two-point conversions, during one of which he took a sack! How do you take a sack on a two-point conversion? Get rid of the goddamn ball! Just throw it up for grabs FFS! How does he not get rid of the ball?

The Giants also got cheated out of a TD on a very ticky-tack offensive PI and had to settle for a FG. Basically, I went 4-1 the right way — four wins on no-doubters and a loss on a very close one. This is in contrast to earlier in the year where I’d go 2-3, winning the two barely and being on the wrong side of three blowouts. (The no-doubters were CIN, LAC, BAL and ARZ.)

Seslowsky and I also won easily in Survivor with the Ravens, while some people got bounced with the Saints. More would have lost with the Eagles, but Trevor Lawrence (who is in the Tannehill/Dimes lineage) threw an egregious, game-sealing pick on first down! for no reason. There are still a couple hundred people alive, and the pool is only about $70K, so it’s not really exciting yet.

My Primetime team did well with Harrison Butker pending, and that was despite having Jeremy McNichols at flex as a last-second sub for Brian Robinson. Apparently, the guy can take a bullet, but can’t make it through pre-game warmups with a hamstring injury. (The Primetime got off to a good start Thursday night and had JK Dobbins, Jahmyr Gibbs and Jaxon Smith-Njigba yesterday.) One of my two BCLs did well too, though the attrition with the wideouts is taking a toll with Stefon Diggs gone and Drake London getting hurt too.

The only really bad performance was my first-place Steak League team that had Chris Olave, McNichols in for Robinson and Isaiah Unlikely at TE. That team is now on the ropes after losing Diggs, and now CeeDee Lamb is hurt and so is his QB.

• It’s bizarre that old, high-workload running backs like Derrick Henry, Saquon Barkley, James Conner and Alvin Kamara have held up just fine while supposedly safer receivers like A.J. Brown, Diggs, Puka Nacua, Cooper Kupp, London, Olave, Rashee Rice, Brandon Aiyuk, Nico Collins, Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle, Devonta Smith, D.K. Metcalf, Chris Godwin, Mike Evans and Malik Nabers have all missed or are likely to miss time. You’re really ahead of the game if you drafted Ja’Marr Chase or Justin Jefferson.

• Danny Dimes played well except the disastrous two-point tries. Why are they snapping to him in shotgun when they only need to gain two yards? Why turn a two-yard try into a seven-yard one? I saw the Broncos do this on 4th-and-1 too, which is even worse.

• The Giants didn’t throw to Nabers the entire first half for God knows what reason. Brian Daboll is just an odd coach.

• The Giants defense was so frustrating, giving up a scoring drive first by surrending a 3rd-and-18 and later allowing an 18-yard TD pass to Terry McLaurin 1-on-1 when the Indigenous Peoples had no timeouts and only 11 seconds left in the half. I mean if there’s one guy to cover in that situation on that team it’s him.

• It was pretty annoying seeing Chris Rodriguez in the game subbing for Austin Ekeler and getting goal line work when I had started McNichols in two places for Robinson.

• The Cowboys are toast, obviously. Losing Micah Parsons and having no running backs or receiver depth with Mike McCarthy as a coach was too much. Now Dak Prescott is hurt, and Lamb is banged up too.

• At least London had the decency to score a TD before getting hurt. He’s no Chris Olave who has done it twice now. That kind of thing just kills your season.

• Bijan Robinson was back to his RB1 usage, though I was happy to see Tyler Allgeier get the TD.

• I started Jaylen Waddle over Ladd McConkey in a league and was aghast until Waddle’s late TD. Unfortunately he gave back all his yardage on a desperation, last-second failed lateral play. Waddle and Tyreek Hill combined for only seven targets. I get using Jonnu Smith and De’Von Achane in the passing game, but you can’t neglect your stars.

• Achane is a monster fantasy player when healthy and with Tua back.

• I was high on Dalton Kincaid this year, but maybe he’s just a guy.

• The Brock Bowers garbage time TD was nice, but I sat Mike Gesicki for Jonnu Smith in my dynasty league, and that hurts.

• The Bengals need to get the ball to Chase more than two yards down the field.

• The Raiders are a ridiculous team.

• I laid the wood with the Chargers because I figured this Jameis Winston would show up against a decent defense. Cedric Tillman seems to be for real though, and he saw another 11 targets.

• Dobbins was rough going until a couple big plays late.

• Quentin Johnston comes out of nowhere every so often, but you can’t use him. McConkey is still the WR1 there.

• The last second Drake Maye play to send the game to overtime was amazing. He held on forever before chucking it up for grabs for the Rhamondre Stevenson TD. Dimes would 100 percent have taken the sack there.

• Kamara saw 29 carries and nine targets, got 215 yards from scrimmage. Even Christian McCaffrey is jealous of that workload.

• Without Olave, the two leading receivers were Kamara and Taysom Hill, who were also the leading rushers. Olave got his second concussion in a few weeks, so he could be in Tua territory too.

• Jonathon Brooks comes back next week, but he probably won’t supplant Chuba Hubbard right away as Hubbard is pretty good.

• Lamar Jackson had a perfect QB rating, just makes it look easy. Derrick Henry too.

• I can’t decide if Bo Nix has a future or not. He made a nice TD *catch* while covered though.

• The Eagles were blowing out the Jaguars, and then after a fumble-return TD, out of nowhere, it was a game. The Jaguars could have won too but for Lawrence’s unbelievably senseless pick on first down with plenty of time left. If you’re not gonna cover, just do the right thing and lose.

• DeVonta Smith was quiet most of the game but made one of the sickest one-handed catches of all time at the very back of the end zone for a necessary TD, it turned out. If Brown misses time with a knee injury, Smith *should* see more work, though game flow Sunday resulted in only six targets. Dallas Goedert might be out for longer too.

• With Brian Thomas not 100 percent, the backs splitting carries and Lawrence vulturing at the goal line, it’s hard to use any Jaguars besides Evan Engram.

• The Cardinals ran roughshod over the Bears from start to finish.

• Jordan Love didn’t seem healthy, but Jayden Reed finally did.

• Jared Goff didn’t have to do much for the second straight game. The Lions are a juggernaut behind that offensive line.

• JSN was having a quiet day, and then suddenly with the last play of the first half, Geno Smith decides to target him for a TD. And then he went crazy in the fourth quarter too. The sporadic use of top receivers is so odd to me. It’s like they finally decide to stop throwing to the third-string tight end, it works, and then it hits them they can throw to JSN every play. In fact, it’s why we took him in the first round last year even! Who knew?

• Smith also took seven sacks. The Seahawks are one of the worst pass-protecting teams in the league.

• Puka Nacua got ejected for throwing a punch, and I thought Cooper Kupp would get 20 catches after that. But DeMarcus Robinson, who caught another two TDs, including the game winner in overtime, has a real role and is clearly the team’s No. 3 now.

• The Sunday night game went almost perfectly. I had the Vikings defense (that last second PI that negated a pick and gave Indy the field goal was unfortunate), was going against Joe Flacco and two of his receivers and had the Vikings ATS. I also had Darnold who redeemed ever-so-slightly my destroyed Steak League team.

• Keep an eye on Cam Akers — he looked good and seems like the No. 2 now.

• The Colts have to turn back to Anthony Richardson, make the one-game benching his sole punishment. I saw he was dropped in a couple of my leagues, and I will put in bids for him.

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/11/04/3-teenagers-fall-and-die-while-playing-sports/ 3 teenagers fall and die while playing sports

What do they have in common and their identical deaths?

What do they have in common and their identical deaths?

usa #sport #vaccine #mRNA #sideeffects #Tennessee

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test 3

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Baking notes

Recipe adapted from Youtube Video by The Cool Kitchen - https://www.youtube.com/@TheCoolKitchen

Note that youtube recipe is asking for 1tablespoon of salt, which is waaaaaay too much. Recipe works fine with a teaspoon,, but your mileage may vary. Play around with it.

You don't need to proove modern packet yeasts in my experience... just yolo it.

If you want an extra crispy crust, add a second baking pan to the base of the oven as you pre-heat. Then once you've placed the dough in, to the oven, take some boiling water and pour into the second baking tray. This gives you a steam oven on a budget :)

Details ⏲️ Prep time: 15mins (not including time for dough rises) 🍳 Cook time: 30mins 🍽️ Servings: 5

Ingredients

• 500 grams wholemeal spelt flour • 1 packet baker's yeast (10grams) • 350 ml lukewarm water • 1 tablespoon honey • 1 teaspoon salt 🧂

Directions • Preheat your oven to Preheat oven to 430°F and put a baking tray in at the same time to heat up.

• Add all ingredients to a bowl (best to use a stand mixer to save time, but you can do by hand too. Mix and knead until the dough comes together. After about 5 mins you should have a moist dough that doesn't stick to your hands... if it is a bit sticky, just add a bit more flour (different flours like differenent amounts of water)... If too dry, add a bit more water... etc.

• Remove dough from bowl & form into a ball (smooth on top, never mind if not perfectly smooth on its base). Put back in a bowl and cover with a damp cloth. Allow to rest for 30mins/1hr until dough has roughly doubled in size. Time will depend on the ambient temp where you are. In the tropics, 30mins is just fine.

• Take risen dough out of bowl and put on a floured surface and press the gas out of it... flatten the dough with your hands, and then fold each edge in until you have a rectangle (video makes this bit clear). Then roll the rectangle up into a cylinder. This gives you a nice tight dough for baking. Pinch the ends of the cylinder to seal the dough.

• Place dough onto a baking sheet/ piece of parchment paper etc... cover with damp towlel and let rise for 15/30mins

• Score the risen dough (a razer blade, clean box cutter, or serrated knife works well) , this lets steam escape from the loaf as it bakes without slpititng it in ways you wouldn't like.

• Take your hot baking tray out of the over and transfer your dough onto it. Pop into oven.

• Bake at 430°F (220°C) for 15mins, then reduce oven temp to 350°F (180°C) for the final 15mins. Total bake time 30mins.

• Remove from oven and allow to cool for 20-30mins

Enjoy :)

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El pueblo español dice basta y avisa al Régimen del 78 que no aguantará más humillaciones. El Rey, el Presidente y el Reyezuelo de Valencia escaparon de una turba que los recibió bajo un manto de palos y piedras. ¿Ha despertado la ciudadanía contra la tiranía del 78? ¿Estamos ante el inicio de una Revolución en España? No parece ser el caso, pero sí es de celebrar que aumente el número de españoles deseosos de rendir cuentas por los destrozos ocasionados por los estamentos del poder. Sólo cabe esperar a que la rosa se marchite.

La reacción popular fue variopinta, desde personas que invitaban amablemente a las autoridades a que dieran media vuelta, hasta aquellos que les obsequiaron con ráfagas de lodo para cuidar el cutis y paloterapia para corregir la espalda. Entre tanto, la vomitiva real, acompañada de una decena de coches policiales, daba un paseo entre los escombros y los gritos de socorro de los afectados. Quién pensase que sus majestades iban a agarrar una pala para realizar labores de ayuda, debería dejar el consumo de estupefacientes. El que creyese que el narcisista de la rosa iba a ensuciarse su traje es que es un iluso. Respecto del Reyezuelo con los manguitos de la piscina, mejor ni comentarlo. Al final, huyeron como cobardes en sus coches oficiales y el pueblo siguió ensuciándose para salvar, precisamente, al propio pueblo.

Fue una humillación para los aduladores del Régimen del 78, al cual se le airean las grietas, pero aún queda un largo recorrido. Los palos y las piedras representan un berrinche popular, y nada más. La necesaria regeneración de nuestro país requiere el reclutamiento de los más capaces, de una alta habilidad organizativa y de un compromiso férreo sin precedentes. El toque de atención está dado, el descrédito está latente. Es hora de aprovecharlo.

La partida está en movimiento y quienes habitan en las cloacas del Estado lo saben. Las reglas del juego son peculiares, pues en este tablero de ajedrez el Rey hace de peón y los peones son los que se esconden. Estos, preocupados por la deriva que pueda tomar la reacción popular, han decidido activar el protocolo antiincendios. Ahora, todos los males recaen en la desinformación y los descontentos son etiquetados de ultra derechista. A continuación el nuevo dogma

«La riada fue por el cambio climático, la destrucción culpa de los negacionistas y ayer en la visita de los reyes y las autoridades estaba todo lleno de nazis»

Ese es el relato del Régimen. Así venden la narrativa, pero no se despisten. Han hablado los culpables que, por su mala praxis política, murieron cientos de nosotros. Ahora, toca que hablen ustedes.

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Chef's notes

最好的是用慢炖锅炖一个晚上. Best if cooked in a slow cooker overnight.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 10 minutes
• 🍳 Cook time: 8 hours

Ingredients

• 金耳一块 // 1 piece of golden tremella
• 银耳2片 // 2 pieces of silver ear fungus
• 红枣10颗 // 10 red dates
• 枸杞7-8粒 // 7-8 goji berries
• 桃胶20颗 // 20 peach gum pieces
• 黄冰糖3块 // 3 blocks of yellow rock sugar

Directions

1. 把银耳和桃胶用水清洗并用水泡发20分钟。 Wash the silver ear fungus and peach gum with water and soak them for 20 minutes.
2. 水煮沸放入3块冰糖，溶解后把银耳和红枣倒入沸水中。 Bring the water to a boil and add 3 blocks of rock sugar. After it dissolves, add the silver ear fungus and red dates to the boiling water.
3. 5分钟后加入金耳和桃胶煮30-40分钟（中途可加水稀释。 After 5 minutes, add the golden tremella and peach gum, and cook for 30-40 minutes (you can add water to dilute if needed)
4. 煮开后，放5分钟即可使用，如果觉得不是很甜，可以再放一点冰糖（根绝个人口味） After boiling, let it sit for 5 minutes before serving. If you find it's not sweet enough, you can add a bit more rock sugar (according to personal taste)

@ 526e9d4c:2ecfb055

Ingredients

• 金耳一块 // 1 piece of golden tremella
• 银耳2片 // 2 pieces of silver ear fungus
• 红枣10颗 // 10 red dates
• 枸杞7-8粒 // 7-8 goji berries
• 桃胶20颗 // 20 peach gum pieces
• 黄冰糖3块 // 3 blocks of yellow rock sugar

Directions

1. 煮开后，放5分钟即可使用，如果觉得不是很甜，可以再放一点冰糖（根绝个人口味）

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Table Of Content

• Bitcoin's Epic Comeback

• The Rise of Institutional Adoption

• Market Demand and Scarcity

• Geopolitical Uncertainty and Financial Turmoil

• Technological Advancements and Innovation

• Regulatory Developments and Acceptance

• Investor Sentiment and Speculation

• Conclusion

• FAQ

The world of cryptocurrency is an ever-evolving landscape, and Bitcoin has been at the forefront since its inception. After a period of volatility and uncertainty, Bitcoin is making waves with its epic comeback, leaving many wondering if it will soar to new heights. In this article, we will delve into the reasons behind Bitcoin's resurgence, the factors fueling its success, and the potential implications for the future. Join us on this exciting journey as we explore Bitcoin's epic comeback and speculate on whether it will indeed reach new heights.

Bitcoin's Epic Comeback

The recent resurgence of Bitcoin has caught the attention of investors and enthusiasts worldwide. After experiencing significant price fluctuations and skepticism, Bitcoin has proven its resilience and potential for growth. The question on everyone's mind is, will Bitcoin soar to new heights? Let's dive deeper into the factors contributing to Bitcoin's epic comeback and analyze its prospects for the future.

The Rise of Institutional Adoption

One of the key drivers behind Bitcoin's recent resurgence is the increasing institutional adoption of the cryptocurrency. Major financial institutions and corporations are recognizing the value and potential of Bitcoin as a store of value and investment asset. Companies like Tesla, MicroStrategy, and Square have made significant investments in Bitcoin, bringing mainstream attention to the cryptocurrency. This institutional endorsement not only boosts Bitcoin's credibility but also attracts more investors, leading to a surge in demand and price.

Market Demand and Scarcity

Bitcoin's limited supply and growing demand have played a significant role in its epic comeback. With a maximum supply capped at 21 million coins, Bitcoin's scarcity has made it an attractive investment option for those seeking to hedge against inflation and diversify their portfolios. As more individuals and institutions enter the cryptocurrency space, the demand for Bitcoin continues to rise, driving up its price. This positive feedback loop of demand and scarcity has propelled Bitcoin's epic comeback and may contribute to its future growth.

Geopolitical Uncertainty and Financial Turmoil

Bitcoin has often been touted as a hedge against geopolitical uncertainty and financial turmoil. In times of economic instability, investors seek alternative assets that are not tied to traditional markets. Bitcoin, with its decentralized nature and independent valuation, offers a potential safe haven for investors looking to protect their wealth. The global COVID-19 pandemic, political tensions, and monetary policy fluctuations have created an environment conducive to Bitcoin's growth. As uncertainty persists, Bitcoin's epic comeback might continue to soar to new heights.

Technological Advancements and Innovation

The underlying technology behind Bitcoin, known as blockchain, has also contributed to its epic comeback. Blockchain technology has revolutionized the way transactions are conducted, providing transparency, security, and decentralization. As more industries embrace blockchain technology and its potential applications, Bitcoin's value proposition becomes even more significant. Additionally, advancements in cryptocurrency wallets, exchanges, and user-friendly interfaces have made it easier for individuals to invest in Bitcoin, further driving its adoption.

Regulatory Developments and Acceptance

Regulatory clarity and acceptance by governments and financial institutions are crucial factors that can propel Bitcoin to new heights. In recent years, several countries have taken steps to regulate and legitimize cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin. For example, El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, signaling a significant milestone for the cryptocurrency. As more countries establish favorable regulatory frameworks and institutional support, Bitcoin's epic comeback may gain further momentum.

Investor Sentiment and Speculation

Investor sentiment and speculation have always played a role in the cryptocurrency market, and Bitcoin is no exception. The psychological aspects of fear and greed can significantly impact Bitcoin's price trajectory. When positive sentiment dominates the market, investors are more likely to buy, leading to a surge in price. Conversely, negative sentiment can trigger sell-offs and price declines. The unpredictability of investor behavior makes it challenging to predict the exact path of Bitcoin's comeback, but it is undoubtedly influenced by the prevailing sentiment and speculation.

Conclusion

Bitcoin's epic comeback has captivated the attention of investors and cryptocurrency enthusiasts alike. With factors such as institutional adoption, market demand, geopolitical uncertainty, technological advancements, and regulatory developments all contributing to its resurgence, Bitcoin's future seems promising. However, it's important to approach Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market with caution, as volatility and risks still exist. As Bitcoin continues its journey, only time will tell whether it will soar to new heights or face new challenges. Nevertheless, the resilience and innovation behind Bitcoin have undoubtedly reshaped the financial landscape and sparked a new era of digital currency.

FAQ

What caused Bitcoin's recent resurgence? Bitcoin's recent resurgence can be attributed to various factors, including institutional adoption, market demand, geopolitical uncertainty, technological advancements, and regulatory developments. The convergence of these factors has created a favorable environment for Bitcoin's comeback.

Will Bitcoin continue to rise in value? While it's impossible to predict the future with certainty, the fundamentals supporting Bitcoin's growth remain strong. The increasing institutional adoption, limited supply, and growing demand suggest that Bitcoin may continue to rise in value.

Can Bitcoin replace traditional currencies? While Bitcoin has gained significant traction as a decentralized digital currency, it is unlikely to replace traditional currencies in the near future. The infrastructure and regulatory challenges associated with widespread adoption pose significant hurdles. However, Bitcoin's role as a store of value and investment asset may continue to grow, complementing existing financial systems.

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When Last We Left Our Heros

The party made friends with a cyclops named Alekos (who can only count to six). They asked him many questions about the numbers of things to which he answered "probably about six, maybe." They met Hox Longfeather, and his main crew. Hox is open to allying with them against Zal Esarus, but needs them to prove themselves (less to him and more to his underlings).

Hatching A Plan

Hox wants to fly. To that end he's going to ask the party to retrieve a Wyvern's egg(s) from a nearby clutch. He's also sending Quesh and Krebz to collect more eggs. That way he gets a powerful tool (skyborne goblin light cavalry) and the party can prove themselves worthy.

Once they find the entrance of the Wyvern's lair, if they wait an hour or so, they'll see one of the parents leave which will give them a better chance, otherwise there will be both in the lair, which would be a bad encounter.

As they get back, the party will find the camp attacked by bounty hunters, if they help the goblins, it will ingratiate themselves even more to the goblins.

Assuming their success, there will be a feast and ritual where one of them (their "chief") will become Hox's brother/sister and a goblin under their customs.

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Chef's notes

Make sure to prep your ingredients, before boiling the pasta.

A little Tajín seasoning per serving is also great for some extra flavor. 🌶

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 21
• 🍳 Cook time: 21
• 🍽️ Servings: 5

Ingredients

• • 12oz Tricolor Penne Pasta ❤️💛💚
• • 3 cups rotisserie chicken, shredded🍗
• • 4 cups chopped celery🥬
• • 1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper 🌶
• • 1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper 🫑
• • 6 slices turkey bacon, cooked and crumbled. 🦃
• • 4 tbsp avocado mayo 🥑
• • 3 tablespoons olive oil 🫒
• Sea salt & Black Pepper to taste. 🧂

Directions

1. • Add 9 cups of water to a medium to large pot to boil for 15 mins over medium high heat
2. Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C) then add turkey bacon on lightly coated baking sheet with a little olive oil to prevent the bacon from sticking. Bake for 15 mins.
3. • In a large bowl, combine the pasta shredded chicken, chopped celery, red and green peppers, crumbled turkey bacon, and avocado mayo.
4. • Drizzle 3 table spoons olive oil and stir.
5. • Chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before serving

@ 5469030c:61ca3e1e

Chef's notes

Make sure to prep your ingredients, before boiling the pasta.

A little Tajín seasoning per serving is also great for some extra flavor. 🌶

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 21
• 🍳 Cook time: 21
• 🍽️ Servings: 5

Ingredients

• • 12oz Tricolor Penne Pasta ❤️💛💚
• • 3 cups rotisserie chicken, shredded🍗
• • 4 cups chopped celery🥬
• • 1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper 🌶
• • 1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper 🫑
• • 6 slices turkey bacon, cooked and crumbled. 🦃
• • 4 tbsp avocado mayo 🥑
• • 3 tablespoons olive oil 🫒
• Sea salt & Black Pepper to taste. 🧂

Directions

1. • Add 9 cups of water to a medium to large pot to boil for 15 mins over medium high heat
2. Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C) then add turkey bacon on lightly coated baking sheet with a little olive oil to prevent the bacon from sticking. Bake for 15 mins.
3. • In a large bowl, combine the pasta shredded chicken, chopped celery, red and green peppers, crumbled turkey bacon, and avocado mayo.
4. • Drizzle 3 table spoons olive oil and stir.
5. • Chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before serving

@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1

All memed out

It finally happened. I think it was October 25th, at circa 18:45 in the evening. I was doomscrolling my Nostr feed, and kept seeing the same Bitcoin memes repeated over and over, by different people. They weren't even reposts, they were copy-pasted versions of the same image. A very funny image. Well, it was very funny last year... and the year before that... and probably the year before that, when it appeared on a different network.

Because it's all just reposts, copy-pastes and rehashes of the Best of Bitcoin Twitter, just like the tiresome influencers, with their groupies and their Episode 498 of Let's all eat a large chunk of lightly-burnt dead animal and count our stacks before jetting off to talk about how to save the poors by getting them to buy individual satoshis with money they don't have.

I'm the poors your looking for

It's all so tiresome. It has little bearing on the real world I see around me, where most people are thinking all day about 99 problems and Bitcoin ain't one.

Which is, of course, what the Bitcoin influencers would have you believe, is the reason that they're poor. What in the world could be more important, than thinking about Bitcoin? Why do these people not get with the program? Don't they know, that we are trying to save them?

Why are they worrying about OtherProblems? Don't they know that all OtherProblems can be fixed with Bitcoin? Really, if you just go back far enough, in any current, situational problem, you will discover that there was some slight, negative shift to the history record that involved soft money. It's the financial version of the Butterfly Effect.

That's why #BitcoinFixesThis. Bitcoin fixes everything, if you just think about it, for long enough.

The same way that we all actually come out of Africa, supposedly, if you go back enough generations. So, coming out of Africa, now, as a Real Life Person in The Present is supposed to have no significance. What does someone from Cameroon know about Africa, that someone from Alaska doesn't? Both people come out of Africa, if you just think about it, for long enough.

And maybe that really is true. Maybe Bitcoin will eventually end all vice and crimes, save the planet, and we will all just hold hands and sing kumbaya all day, while waiting for the Singularity to upload us to Satoshi.

Bitcoin envelope budgeting

Or maybe it's not. Maybe it's just a really hard, digital money that incentivizes savings, functions as a reliable measure, and makes micropayments possible on a global scale. Those really are things that will help the poors, including myself. I can see it, already, when trying to organize pre-paid meetups or figure out what to do with our household's meager savings, when the stock market is looking particularly bubblicious.

But this is what I would consider Boring Bitcoin. Bitcoin home economics. Penny-pinching Bitcoin. Bitcoin for homemakers. How to use the Bitcoin envelope budgeting system to beat inflation by a margin of 13%.

The actual use of Bitcoin as money, rather than as a mere investment gamble or hype machine. That's the part of Bitcoin that nobody seems to really talk about because it's incredibly practical, dull, and useful, and it can only be tested by -- Oh, the horror! -- actually spending Bitcoin.

But... perhaps I will begin talking about it. Perhaps those of us, Bitcoiners, who are having fun staying poor, while stacking sats, should speak up a bit more. Perhaps the boring stuff is actually the interesting stuff. Perhaps there is more to say about Bitcoin, than can fit into a meme.

@ 468f729d:5ab4fd5e

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

@ 361d3e1e:50bc10a8

https://forex-strategy.com/2024/11/03/the-amazon-river-has-begun-to-dry-up-water-problems-are-escalating/ The Amazon River has begun to dry up, water problems are escalating

climate #climatechange #water #crisis #amazon #amazonriver #brazil

@ bf7973ed:841ad12a

I've been procrastinating too much the last few weeks, so I'm starting off this week with catching up on homework.

Creating good habits can take some time because it's so easy to create bad habits. So, I'm replacing a bad habit with a good one. I woke up and turned on the TV (bad habit), I knew I had work to catch up on.

I turned the TV off and started on some homework instead (good habit). So from now on, I'll be turning on my computer instead of the TV when I have nothing to do.

(I'm even using the Obsidian plugin to prevent distractions)

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I was recently having a friendly discussion about end-times eschatology. I believe the Bible communicates a pre-tribulation rapture of believers before an actual 7 year tribulation followed by a literal thousand year reign of Jesus on Earth before Armageddon and the Great White Throne Judgement. My friend said he thought the rapture had happened around 70 AD. I had never heard anyone make that argument, so I asked for scriptural evidence. He gave me these three verses:

“Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.” (Matthew 16:28)

And Jesus was saying to them, “Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.” (Mark 9:1)

But I say to you truthfully, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.” (Luke 9:27)

These three verses do sound like some of those standing before Jesus will be raptured, although the words are “see the kingdom of God.”

I always seek to know what I believe and why I believe it and to make sure that I am not misled about anything regarding the Bible, so I stopped and thought and listened. I know that most of the Bible strongly suggests that the rapture happens immediately before the tribulation, but these verses seem to contradict that conclusion. God gave me the following passage of a discussion between Peter and Jesus right after Jesus told Peter how he would die:

Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?” So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?” Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!” Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?” (John 21:20-23) {emphasis mine}

Jesus’s statements made His disciples think that the Apostle John would live until Jesus returned, but that wasn’t what Jesus was communicating. I think this misunderstanding is similar to the one in the three verses above. John did live longer than any of His other disciples. Near the end of John’s life, after all of the other disciples had passed away, Jesus brought him to heaven in the spirit:

I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands; and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash. His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire. His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters. In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the sun shining in its strength. (Revelation 1:9-16) {emphasis mine}

In this vision, before John’s death, he saw “the kingdom of God” in heaven. This alone would fulfill Jesus’s statement, but there is more.

Then slightly later in Revelation:

After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. (Revelation 4:1-2)

In this passage, John is called up to heaven to see “what must take place after these things.” What does John see about what is to come? He “see[s] the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”(Matthew 16:28b)

John was listening to Jesus’s promise that “there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.” (Mark 9:1) In his old age, he was temporarily called to heaven to see the “the kingdom of God” and “the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.” John did see the things that Jesus promised before he “tasted death.” It wasn’t that Jesus came back or raptured the church before John died. It was that Jesus brought John into heaven in the spirit to see what would later come to be. Jesus then returned John back to earth to live out what remained of his life.

When I asked my husband to review my post, he made another explanation of the original three verses. I’ll use Matthew for this explanation.

28 “Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.” (Matthew 16:28)

The very next verses are these:

Six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, I will make three tabernacles here, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!” (Matthew 17:1-5)

The transfiguration was the initiation of Jesus reign and Peter, James, and John were able to see Jesus in His glorified form. Since this happened 6 days later, it stands out as a fulfillment. You could argue that both my idea and my husband’s are a fulfillment of Jesus’s promise.

It also does not make sense that the church was raptured in Jesus’s generation because Jesus’s kingdom did not come at that time. The evil in the world from His ascension to today is clearly not His kingdom. Also, nowhere in Revelation is the church mentioned (although people do come to know Jesus). This is because God took His church home to be with Him.

For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, (1 Thessalonians 5:9)

The seven year tribulation is the wrath of God poured out on those who rejected their Creator and Savior. “God has not destined us for wrath.”

There will be a wonderful, literal thousand year reign of Jesus. Satan and his demons will be bound and will no longer being leading people away from Jesus. It will be a time of peace for 1000 years. Sadly a large number of people who live during the millennium will not put their faith in Jesus, but will rebel against Him when Satan is released one last time. Their rebellion will lead to their physical death and eternal torment.

Reading all of these verses, I once again see that even when there seems to be a contradiction, there is none. I still believe the rapture is yet to come and will occur shortly before the seven year tribulation. I still believe that the rapture and the tribulation are coming soon. I’m also glad that I took the time to look at the evidence, consider it logically, and consider the Bible in its entirety instead of blindly digging in my heels and claiming fiat, “I am right.”

I guess I should also share the two most explicit passages in the Bible on the rapture, so you can fully understand what is being talked about in this article:

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) {emphasis mine}

This verse means even more when we look back at Jesus’s ascension:

And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:9-11) {emphasis mine}

The other most explicit passage on the rapture is this:

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. (1 Corinthians 15:51-54) {emphasis mine}

In the New Testament, the Bible always calls the death of believers “sleep,” because it is not an end. It is a new beginning. I hope you are looking forward to the day when believers “will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.”

God is good! All of the time! I hope to meet you all when we are called up to meet Jesus in the air.

Trust Jesus.\ \ your sister in Christ,

Christy

NOTE: I know this article is a bit different because it documents my whole thought process rather than just speaking clearly what I believe God’s word says. I hope it has been a blessing to you and I’d love feedback.

NOTE: Also, my last long form article, I never was able to see posted. Would someone please comment or like so I can make sure these are posting. This editor is easiest for me because I don't have to redo the editing, but if the posts aren't getting to people, I'll need to post using another editor. Thanks for your help.

@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1

It arrived!

I was feeling impatient, waiting for my snazzy, brand-spanking new mobile phone to arrive, but when it got here, I just stared at the box, in trepidation. Everyone kept walking by, asking how it is, but I just shook my head. After nearly four years, with my (originally Android 10), Moto G8 Power, which I loved to death, I wasn't yet ready to move on. I needed a moment, to grieve.

RIP, my trusty fren.

Anyways...

Around 10 pm, I managed to emotionally recover enough to begin the Big Transition, and I was up until 2 am, and still didn't finish.

My SimpleX database is sort of large, and slow to migrate. Also, took me a while to figure out how to do it, and the whole thing made me terribly nervous, that I'd accidentally get locked out. But it worked, after eight failed attempts, so yay.

Telegram was back online, almost immediately, since it's tied to the SIM card. Which was convenient, but sorta creeped me out.

Our family-internal favorite, Threema, was a snap. Took 5 minutes.

I had four failed starts with Slack, as it kept sending a login code to my Proton Mail, but I didn't have Proton app installed on my new phone, yet, and I was really sleepy, so I kept confirming on the old phone and then Slack would freeze up, and I had to kill the process and restart.

My key manager is cloud-based, so that went really fast, and I had the nos2x browser extension going in Firefox within 10 minutes, or so. Logged into Habla.News, Nostr.Build, Zap.Cooking, and Nostrudel.Ninja, immediately, so that I can get my Nostr fix.

Then I took a deep breath and mass-installed F-Droid, Minibits, Amethyst, Citrine, Orbot, and Amber. And breathed out, again, because MIRACLES NEVER CEASE: it seems to be actually working.

Everyone knows that this is the unbeatable Android Nostr setup, but it's also a resource-gobbling monster, that should only be tried at home, kids. Make sure you don't use Amethyst when out-and-about, unless you have a gigantic battery and an unlimited, high-speed, mobile plan. So, basically, everyone in the First World, who isn't me, can do it.

Oh, well. At least, I can now indulge over WiFi.

The phone itself is just like the old one, but thinner, faster, and doesn't freeze up or take a long time to start. The Motorola is dead. Long live the Motorola.

@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1

It's that season, again

I've been growing my hair out (too lazy to cut it) and it has -- once again -- quickly reached a length at which it draws unnecessary attention and sheds everywhere. I suppose it always sheds everywhere, but shedding short hairs is just generally less-gross than finding a 12-inch strand lying on the toast, you were about to consume.

So, I'm back to the 50 Shades of Updo stage, where I struggle to figure out how to best wear my head, usually defaulting to the Messy Bun look, because it's still too short to do anything more elaborate and looks silly, as a ponytail.

It's really not that great of a look for me, I know, especially, now that my chin is finally succumbing to gravity, but doing something more-elegant is usually more time-consuming and doesn't have that wonderful "swept up" feeling to it. You know that feeling, when you tie all of that heavy hair to a higher point on your skull and the roots just sigh with relief.

Another look, I tend to gravitate toward, at the moment, is head scarves, like this one:

...or a Bavarian-style bandana, for gardening or hiking (don't have a selfie handy, so here is some random chick, who also suffers from poofy, dark hair).

Hiking bare-headed, with flowing tresses, is not recommended, due to all of the Nature, that you have to comb back out of it.

Generally, just bored of my inbetween length and looking forward to braiding it, in a few months. Or giving up, in frustration, and cutting it all off.

@ 2dd9250b:6e928072

Silk Road: Mercado Clandestino (2021) é um filme Norte-Americano que conta a história de Ross Ulbricht e seu site da Dark Web, Silk Road. E por mais que o roteiro queira deixar claro que Ross é Libertário desde o começo, com citações de Mises a questionamentos quanto à legitimidade moral das Leis Juspositivistas, ele erra justamente na forma como conta a história.

Esse filme é ruim porque retrata o protagonista, que embora tenha 27 anos (em 2011), age como um adolescente abobado que quer salvar o mundo das garras satânicas do Estado. E o roteiro faz isso reforçando todos os estereótipos que os ancaps possuem como quando Julia se surpreende com o fato de "ter dormido com um Libertário" fazendo alusão à piada de que Ancaps não têm relações sexuais casuais, ou quando o pai de Ross praticamente chama ele de vagabundo - fazendo alusão à piada de Ancaps serem um bando de desocupados sustentados pelos pais.

Mas o que mais chama a atenção é o fato dos roteiristas realmente não fazerem o menor esforço para criar algo realmente interessante e original para contar a história do Ross.

Vai ver eles pensaram: "Vamos fazer esse jovem inspirado no Mark Zuckerberg, como se ele fosse um estudante de Física em alguma Universidade mequetrefe do Texas e resolvesse ler Mises e outros autores da Escola Austríaca. Vamos por um conflito nele entre ser um empresário que bate de frente com o Estado e ter uma namoradinha, já que Ancaps geralmente não têm namorada. Aí a namoradinha dele se empolga porque ele tá ganhando muito dinheiro e sugere que ele entre em contato com um jornalista para o site ficar famoso no País inteiro, enquanto ele vai se doxxando no processo."

A medida que o tempo passa ele fica tão obsecado pelo site que perde a namoradinha e a sanidade no caminho. It's Over. Assim como Mark Zuckerberg não curtiu o personagem dele do filme a Rede Social (2003) o Ross, além de ver o Sol nascer quadrado até morrer tem que se contentar com seu personagem sendo gado da mina lá que mal sabia o que era Libertarianismo. Em a Rede Social (2003) isso funciona porque é relatado em Bilionários por Acaso de Ben Mezrich, que Mark Zuckerberg e seu amigo brasileiro Eduardo Saverin criaram o Facebook praticamente para "pegar mulher". Mark anteriormente tinha criado o Facemash que era basicamente um site para os rapazes de Harvard escolherem entre duas alunas, qual era a mais atraente. Mark quase foi expulso por causa do Facemash e teve que pedir desculpas publicamente. Então faz sentido aquele final onde Mark envia uma solicitação de amizade para uma aluna de Havard criada pelos Roteiristas. Mas isso não deveria acontecer em Silk Road porque Ross Ulbritch não é um Mark Zuckerberg Libertário. Se bobear o filme sobre o Terry Davis também terá um interesse amoroso só para ficar ali dizendo o quão gênio ele era, até ele enlouquecer e ela acabar se casando com um atendente do Walmart de Seattle.

Isso realmente me irrita. O filme passa muito tempo enfatizando que Ross tem vários amigos e parentes que o amam muito e querem o seu bem, mas Ross está ocupado demais cuidando de sua valiosa empresa que roda no Tor. Além disso, Ross realmente age como se tivesse certeza que nunca seria pego. O que é um tremendo absurdo. Mesmo vendo políticos discursando na TV a favor do fechamento do site (porque ele intencionalmente criou o site para compra e venda de drogas e muitos jovens estavam morrendo por abusar das drogas), Ross acredita que pelo fato da guerra às drogas ter falhado, isso significa que ele não seria caçado pela NSA ou FBI. Então ele continua usando o site sem se preocupar muito com quem conversa no chat ou com o que estão fazendo para que a identidade do Dread Pirate Roberts nunca seja desmascarada.

O filme tenta induzir quem assiste a pensar que Ross foi enganado pelo agente quase aposentado do FBI, mas mesmo que esse agente não fosse um Boomer e soubesse o que é Bitcoin, não mudaria nada na história porque o problema é como a personalidade infantil do Ross é apresentada em tela. E por mais que ele tenha sido avisado pela sua namorada Júlia que o que ele estava fazendo era ilegal e por mais que ela tenha se afastando dele por ele agir com insensibilidade pelas vítimas que morreram por causa do tráfico de drogas viabilizado pelo site, ele faz uma incrível cara de surpresa quando é preso. Não tem suspensão de descrença que me faça ignorar aquela cena.

No fim, já preso, ele justifica sua ignorância dizendo que só queria que as pessoas tivessem Liberdade, mas não fazia ideia do que as pessoas fariam com essa liberdade. E que se ele não fizesse nada por medo da tirania do Estado, já tinha perdido. Deixando bem claro que esse é um filme Norte-Americano e como um bom filme Norte-Americano o Bem venceu o Mal e os Heróis Policiais brilham mais uma vez.

@ 54609048:8e22ba03

In a rapidly changing world, where the boundaries between physical and digital spaces blur, one question looms large: How do we nurture the next generation to be masters, and not victims, of an increasingly complex economic landscape? The answer lies not just in new technologies or innovations but in cultivating sovereign minds—young individuals who are not only creative and resourceful but also understand the value of liberty, free markets, and sound money.

Our current world is dominated by centralization, with vast institutions—governments, central banks, and corporations—holding immense power over the lives of individuals. The modern financial system by design has created a populace that is increasingly dependent on centralized authorities for economic stability and security. Changing this awful paradigm starts with educating kids about Bitcoin and basic financial principles early on, in order to equip them with the tools they need to become independent thinkers, free from the constraints of centralized authorities, and prepared to thrive in a decentralized world.

The Modern Age of Centralization and Dependency

For decades, the modern education system has operated under the assumption that students are vessels to be filled rather than minds to be cultivated. Traditional schooling promotes conformity and compliance over creativity and critical thinking, often producing adults who are ill-equipped to handle the complexities of the financial system. Even more alarming, financial education is either poorly addressed or completely absent from mainstream curricula. This absence leaves young people vulnerable to the traps of debt, inflation, and economic dependency—tools that centralized systems use to control and limit individual freedom.

This erosion of personal sovereignty begins early, as children grow into adults who are dependent on an inflationary financial system, credit, and centralized institutions for their livelihoods. An example that immediately comes to mind is that of student loan debt in the United States. As of the second quarter of 2024, the total student loan debt in the US stands at approximately $1.74 trillion, with 77% of this debt having been accrued since 2005. The default rate of these loans stands at 10.3% within the first three years of repayment; which is very high when compared with historical averages. Most of the students signing up for these loans are not only financially illiterate but are graduating into a weaker economic climate with high unemployment rates.

That’s before we even consider the fact that in a lot of cases some of the degree programs that these students would have enrolled in degree programs that do not have any marketable skills. This debt trap continues throughout life as more debts pile up due to an ever rising cost of living coupled with a debt based economic system that impoverishes society over time. Through this lens, it becomes clear that most people are not living as free individuals, but as subjects of a system designed to benefit the few at the expense of the many.

The Case for Teaching Bitcoin Early

Bitcoin offers a profound shift in the way individuals, particularly the younger generation, can approach money. Unlike fiat currency, which is controlled and manipulated by governments and central banks, Bitcoin operates as a decentralized, immutable form of digital money. For the first time in history, people have access to a form of money that is not controlled by any central authority. This is more than just a technological breakthrough; it is a philosophical one.

Teaching kids early on about Bitcoin early on not only introduces them to the concept of sound money but also encourages them to think critically about the systems of control that govern their lives. Bitcoin is a living example of what happens when individuals reject top-down authority in favor of a decentralized, peer-to-peer network. By learning how Bitcoin works, children can grasp the importance of scarcity, decentralization, and the protection of their financial autonomy.

The same rule also applies to teenagers as well, as the saying goes; better late than never. When young people understand Bitcoin, they begin to see money not just as a medium of exchange but as a tool of liberation. They learn to question why inflation exists, why their purchasing power diminishes over time, and why they are required to participate in a system that benefits a select few while burdening the majority.

Sovereign Individuals and the Future of Society

What does it mean to be a sovereign individual in the modern age? It means having control over one’s life, choices, and destiny. Sovereignty begins with financial independence, but it extends into all areas of life. A sovereign individual is one who is not reliant on any centralized authority—be it government, a corporation, or even a bank—for their survival or success.

Understanding Bitcoin is just one part of the equation. Financial literacy as a whole is equally crucial. Children who are taught the principles of saving, investing, and understanding debt are far more likely to grow into adults who can protect their personal freedoms. Financially literate individuals make better choices, not only about their own lives but also in their role as participants in the broader economy. In a future shaped by decentralized technologies like Bitcoin, the individuals who succeed will be those who can think critically, act independently, and innovate freely. Creativity and sovereignty go hand in hand. Sovereign individuals are not just financially independent; they are creators, innovators, and problem solvers who drive progress and shape the future.

Practical Steps for Parents and Educators

If we are to cultivate the next generation of sovereign minds, we must start with practical steps. Parents and educators can introduce children to Bitcoin by teaching them the basics of how digital wallets work, how to earn and save in Bitcoin, and how to think about money in terms of long-term value rather than immediate gratification. Even small exercises, like earning Bitcoin for chores or using it to buy small items, can give kids hands-on experience with sound money. Above all, it's important to teach them to question the world around them—why does inflation exist? Why do prices go up over time? Why do some countries experience hyperinflation while others do not?—to name a few, because until one can question the current status quo they can cease to be victims of it.

With this in mind, the El Salvador edition of the Adopting Bitcoin conference this year will also have a special treat for the youngsters. In collaboration with the Bitcoin Junior Club the event will feature ‘Bitcoin Para Niños’—a dedicated zone where children can learn, play, and explore topics like sound money and creative thinking. Not only is this tailored for kids to learn about sound money in a very fun and interactive way; but ultimately it enables families to embark on their Bitcoin journey together. Beyond the technical aspects of financial literacy, it is vital to cultivate a mindset of independence and critical thinking. Sovereign minds are nurtured in environments that value curiosity, questioning authority, and taking responsibility for one’s actions.

Conclusion

The future belongs to the sovereign individuals—those who are financially independent, critical thinkers, and creators of value. Teaching kids about Bitcoin and financial literacy is not just about preparing them for economic success; it’s about empowering them to live free, meaningful lives in a world that increasingly values conformity and centralization. Sovereign minds are the architects of a free society, and it is our duty to help them build the world they deserve.

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A paper bordering on parody but, unfortunately, all too real. Titled “The Distributive Effects of Bitcoin,” it’s authored by Ulrich Bindseil and Jürgen Schaaf: the former manages the ECB’s Market Infrastructure and Payments division, while the latter serves as his advisor. Hosting this paper on its own servers, the Frankfurt institution safeguards itself with a disclaimer: “The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the ECB.” The disclaimer is understandable, as the positions of the two authors are so blatantly biased and devoid of any logical foundation that they seem too much even for Bitcoin’s number one enemy: the central bank itself.

The underlying assumption of the entire document is simple: Bitcoin does not increase the productive potential of the economy. Based on this shortsighted foundation, the authors construct an entire narrative that ignores some of the fundamental changes introduced by Bitcoin.

“Bitcoin does not increase the productive potential of the economy”

Since Bitcoin doesn’t increase the productive potential of the economy, the alleged increase in value is essentially redistributive. This means that the enrichment of the early bitcoin holders can only come at the expense of the rest of society.

Right from the abstract, the authors assert that Bitcoin in no way contributes to increasing the productive potential of the economy. Their thesis is that Bitcoin, lacking any connection to the creation of tangible goods or services, represents an asset with no intrinsic productive value. According to the document, while investments in sectors like technology or industry improve the efficiency and productive capacity of the economic system, Bitcoin provides no such benefit, as it does not directly contribute to production growth or innovation.

For the authors, much of Bitcoin’s attributed value derives solely from financial speculation and the perception of those who purchase it, without any tangible increase in “economic capacity.”

The redistributive potential: penalizing latecomers

Bindseil and Schaaf then explore what they call Bitcoin’s “redistributive structure,” claiming that its mechanism rewards early investors at the expense of latecomers. Their shocking revelation is that Bitcoin’s value increases for early purchasers as demand rises, generating higher returns for those who entered the market first.

In other words, Bindseil and Schaaf have discovered the wonderful world of supply and demand dynamics within that mysterious entity called “the market”—perhaps too complex to grasp for those dreaming of a Soviet-style economy. Not coincidentally, they describe this process as inherently unjust, arguing that people who decide to invest later don’t receive the same advantages and are forced to buy at higher prices.

If the rational part of your mind is screaming in desperation, I ask for one last effort.

The document describes this effect as a negative feature of Bitcoin, comparing it to a “speculative bubble” destined to collapse when new investors can no longer sustain the asset’s high price.

A point-by-point rebuttal

I confess, I would never have found the strength to sit down at my keyboard to debunk, once again, arguments so erroneous that they’d make anyone with a basic understanding of economics cringe. Fortunately, Murray Rudd and Dennis Porter of Satoshi Action Education, along with Allen Farrington of Axiom and Freddie New of Bitcoin Policy UK, have taken on this task.

Bitcoin’s productive potential: a central misunderstanding

The main assumption—that Bitcoin does not contribute to the productive potential of the economy—is challenged by highlighting how Bitcoin is fueling an ecosystem of technological and financial innovation. Tools like the Lightning Network reduce transaction costs and increase system efficiency, bringing tangible benefits to the economy. “Considering Bitcoin as a mere speculative tool,” the analysis states, “means ignoring the immense infrastructural and social value of payment networks and decentralized technologies deriving from its adoption.”

Bindseil and Schaaf also overlook how Bitcoin is already used to reduce the cost of international remittances, a vital function in parts of the world where transaction costs via traditional banking systems are often exorbitant, reaching up to 20% in some regions. This application provides both direct and indirect productive benefits in contexts with low financial inclusion.

Further, the response notes:

“Bitcoin is promoting innovation beyond payments. It has catalyzed advances in cryptography and energy efficiency, particularly through mining. Bitcoin mining using waste gas can mitigate methane emissions and improve renewable energy generation, contributing to grid flexibility thanks to the unique features of mining.”

Beyond technological advances, the arguments against Bitcoin reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of money in capital accumulation and, consequently, economic prosperity. Productivity is driven by capital accumulation, and economic growth is the result of increased productivity through effective capital use. Arguing that capital growth does not contribute to productivity reveals a deep ignorance of basic market dynamics.

Bitcoin’s redistributive potential: a market dynamic

The final criticism from the two ECB-affiliated individuals concerns the accusation that Bitcoin only benefits early investors at the expense of newcomers. The authors of the rebuttal paper observe that this phenomenon exists in any asset—from real estate to gold—where early investors benefit from an increase in value. Furthermore, Bitcoin lacks privileged distributions, as seen in other cryptocurrencies issued with pre-mines or venture capital models. Bitcoin’s distribution model, which began with open and transparent mining, is considered by the authors “one of the fairest in the history of digital assets.” I would even go so far as to say the fairest.

The authors also point out that the fiat system, widely supported by the ECB, favors inequality through monetary devaluation—a form of reverse redistribution that penalizes small savers in favor of those with greater access to financial resources. Bitcoin, with its maximum issuance cap, offers an alternative to this erosion of purchasing power caused by inflation. In short, such an accusation from those representing the primary cause of the Cantillon effect is almost laughable.

The Federal Reserve’s direct attack

A few days after the publication of Bindseil and Schaaf’s paper, their American counterparts also decided to attack Bitcoin. The Federal Reserve of Minneapolis published a study titled “Unique Implementation of Permanent Primary Deficits?”

I won’t drag this out: in nearly forty pages of formulas and calculations, Fed experts managed to rediscover the obvious—if Bitcoin were to become widespread, the government would no longer be able to run deficits!

“Good morning, princess,” as Roberto Benigni would say in La Vita è Bella. In this newsletter, we’ve been discussing this topic for about three years, yet I haven’t received a job offer from Washington. Perhaps it’s because my views are slightly at odds with those of the employees of the monetary monopolist. The Fed, in fact, sees a very simple solution: ban Bitcoin! They state it plainly:

“The government could simply make Bitcoin illegal.”

Here, we encounter a fundamental disagreement. Believing that Bitcoin can be banned by a few lines in a law reflects a profound misunderstanding of the technology. If you’d like a consultation on the subject, dear friends at the Fed, I’ll be here.

Or rather, I’ll be enjoying your decline.

Sincerely,

Federico.

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All Bitcoiners everywhere on the proverbial right have a natural disdain for Communism, those on the left sort of ashamedly admit that any form of Socialism is untenable on a Bitcoin standard. When debating the issue of whether voting is an efficate means of bringing about meaningful change, as soon as you throw your support into the abstain from voting camp, no matter what your reasoning, you are shamed with a statement which implies "Don't you care if Ross rots in jail?"

My assertive answer is yes. I do care about Ross. I have spent nights praying for him. I sympathise with him. My heart went out to him like it does for all who are imprisoned unfairly and for exclusively political reasons. More than most. I have prayed ardently for Julain Assange's freedom. But claiming to pray for someone is just as useless as voting to free someone in a national election. What then is the difference between they who vote and they who pray? Because prayer is a introspection responsibility which leads to action. Voting is a right that ends in passivity and abdication of responsibility. Statistics are in my favour here. This action I took requires some explanatory background.

Chris Hani was supposed to be the successor to Nelson Mandela and initiate the full transition of South Africa from a Republic to democracy and then by popular vote to communism. Something few people know is that uMkhonto we Siswe, the African National Congress and the South African Communist party is a trilateral organisation. (They still claim to be but the ANC have sort of snubbed the other groups) One helping the other all with the same end goal. Full blown Communism and State domination of civilian life.

Something threw a spanner in the works. A political crime born from fear of Communist Russian influence and the scars Stalin left as a legacy on Asia and Eastern Europe. This justified fear motivated normal good Christian men to commit a crime. They conspired and successfully assassinated Chris Hani.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hani

Chris Hani (28 June 1942 – 10 April 1993),[1] born Martin Thembisile Hani was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of uMkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a fierce opponent of the apartheid government, and was assassinated by Janusz Waluś, a Polish immigrant and sympathiser of the Conservative opposition on 10 April 1993, during the unrest preceding the transition to democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_demonstrations_in_Poland

The 1982 demonstrations in Poland refers to anti-government street demonstrations organized by underground Solidarity to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement. The bloodiest protest occurred in southwestern Poland, in the town of Lubin, on 31 August 1982. The Lubin demonstration resulted in three protesters killed by Communist services, and an unknown number of wounded.[1][2] On the same day, rallies and demonstrations took place in several cities across the country. According to Solidarity sources, there were four more victims—in Wrocław, Gdańsk, Nowa Huta, and Toruń.[3] According to official government sources, there were demonstrations in 66 cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Walu%C5%9B

So in the Northern Hemisphere communism is killing political activists and in the Southern Hemisphere the conservative right is resisting full blown communist revolt fighting a war in five countries. Rhodesia, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa. Janusz Walus left Poland, a country saturated with communism and sought hope and freemarket opportunities in The South African Republic. When it became evident that the ANC, SACP, MWS in collaboration with the National Party was going to be successful at establishing a one man one vote system, communism was the inevitable outcome, unless...

Janusz who made connections in right wing conservative circles, volunteered to stop the whole scheme. The whole plan seems a little naive and untenable but men have done far more foolish things being guided by hope, false or otherwise. He was provided a gun by Clive, a plan and on the regrettable day of 10 April 1993 killed Chris Hani by handgun in the driveway of his home.

Janusz Wallus and Clive Derby Lewis, were sentenced to be executed by the Apartheid government. In 1994 Nelson Mandela became president and the death penalty was repealed, reversing the death sentence of many political criminals including Janusz and Clive. The ANC wanted to save/pardon all the freedom fighters who were under death penalty convictions. Clive and Janusz were beneficiaries of this pardon. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment after an extended stint of fanfare.

Fast forward to 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pERTDXg8dGo

Now everyone knows how mainstream media manages to downplay and mock anything that goes against what government actually want. The protests were slightly more impressive and extremist socialist communist groups namely the Economic Freedom Fighters even harassed and intimidated the white minority who were protesting for Clive's release. Any way (EchDel) I was present at Pretoria town square to participate at this demonstration in favour of Clive Derby Lewis's release. Why would I be in support of freeing a convicted criminal who already received a semi pardon? Because all the other terrorists on the side of the ANC were systemically pardoned and freed after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This opportunity for Clive to being pardoned was vehemently opposed by the SACP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(South_Africa)

I acted.

I participated in this protest because I really cared. If I voted for it I could conveniently virtue signal my support but voting was not an option anyway, I participated in this protest demonstrating for his release. I screamed and chanted for hours demanding for him to be freed and was spat at by commies and jostled aggressively by a mob of rowdy EFF supporters. I had lost my voice for three days after the affair. And then you have the audacity to say. "Don't you want Ross to be free?" The Bitcoiners at the Nashville conference did a lot of work, spent time, energy and possibly prayers to turn Donald Trumps arm get him to suggest Ross's freedom in exchange for a vote. Freeing Ross is an awesome rallying cry, but wanting him to be free and not supporting the system is not mutually exclusive.

No nobody deserves one nickel or dime of the freedom they currently enjoy unless they can come to one very important conclusion. Bitcoin fixes this and Bitcoin only fixes this.

Nickle and dime pun intended.

Bitcoin fixes racial tension. Bitcoin fixes party politics. Bitcoin fixes terrorism. Bitcoin fixes war. We (mankind) are not isolated groups fighting in different countries with different ideals to survive and retain our dignity and property anymore. We are all under the same boot of FIAT CURRENCY.

And no politician has the moral willpower to challenge that force and even when they do they fail because of the flawed nature of their institution. The grassroots movement of plebs adopting Bitcoin and withdrawing their support from the system which is the perpetrator of all this eye for eye, tooth for tooth, tit for tat political bullshit, that is where the power and tangible efficate change is going to happen. There are no bad guys, only humans stuck in fallible systems of their own design. There is no political solution.

Only a monetary one. Bitcoin.

Watch this interview and keep voting in mind as subject matter. The repeated failures of parliamentary democracy is a stepping stone away from socialism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXy35jHQRb4

Everyone voted, everyone is still voting, no one is happy, everyone is impoverished. Crime goes up. Freedom's go down. The fruits of voting is putrid and rotten. So you vote and I will Bitcoin. When the elected party betrays your values with regard to speech, finance, property or war, remember to vote even harder next time.

Post script.

If Hani would have been alive and taken the South African presidency, I would have probably grown up as an immigrant in some European country having had to flee communism with my parents and siblings. The least I could do was protest peacefully for Clive's release. Janusz Wallus did not wait to vote. He acted and is still in prison to this day. He does deserve a pardon if only to receive equal treatment as all the other political prisoners did. I owe him and all the brave men in history who chose to act and make real change my thanks. You only risk action if you believe, even if it is foolishly.

A man has to believe in something, I believe I'll have another drink.

Matthew 25:31-40

“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’

“Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’

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Building An E-Commerce Store

I would like to be the change in the world I would like to see."" So I'm writing about how I would like to see the world change.

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My new nym is Marc26z. Marc is my real name. I decided to stop being a-nym-nomous because I started a meetup and it felt to strange to tell people my nym and I heard Guy and Jeff Swann talk about being anonymous cuts you off from the people that will help you. So i guess I'm coming out so to speak. I also felt like I needed to show and not tell. Therefore I am creating an online store to show people how bitcoin can be used for e-commerce.

The 26z comes from the nostr key I mined. I'm on nostr because it gives me the ability to talk to the smartest people I've ever spoken with. It also provides a new way to get discovered on the Internet and a way to get use bitcoin as a medium of exchange. I spent about two years writing as a nym, but then hit a wall because I became interested in using bitcoin as a replacement for traditional banks and regulated exchanges made it easier to do so.

I still believe in self-custody.

I still believe bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system

I still believe the majority of your wealth should not be trusted with a third party.

I don't really like credit cards, but it occurred to me that I can still accept credit cards and get them to pay me in bitcoin if I use [Strike](https://invite.strike.me/NGQDMT)*

Gradually, then suddenly, Bitcoin ETF's were approved.

Now you can read about them on Nerd Wallet

About 12% of all the bitcoin that will ever be made is held by governments and corporations.

According to Bitbo, more than 1-out of 20 bitcoin are held in ETF's

I know how to set up bitcoin Point-of-Sale system for businesses, but there's not much of a market for that., but there's not much of a market for it. Everyone need a t shirts. Everyone needs underwear. Everyone neess food. I plan on selling stuff like that…Well, not underwear.

Gaining e-commerce experience

I've been writing letters and building labs to get a coveted IT help desk job. I study Professor Messer 4 hours a week because most jobs require a Computer Technology Industry Association stamp of an A+ approval. Last week, I applied for a job that required "e-commerce experience." I didn't even get one of those “you're not hired” emails, but there is an orange lining to this situation. I spent the last few months building my resume and writing dozens of cover letters. This taught me even more stuff like how to run my own ticketing system. This gives me the confidence to create my own e-commerce store. I'm looking at my resume. This guy knows how to build websites with WordPress. He knows how to set up a bitcoin store. Forget that. We want fiat! Why would they hire me? So I;m building an "e-commerce lab" that takes credit cards. The payments will still take days to get to my Strike account, but when they do the dollars will instantaneously convert to bitcoin(sats) in my Strike account. The problem with writing about this is it's terrible writing. It takes too much technical expertise to write about without [citing stuff like this(https://medium.com/coinmonks/understanding-atomic-swaps-the-2024-guide-to-cross-blockchain-transactions-3427b75045c2) and that would turn off much of my bitcoin only audience because it talks about casino coins, but I found this exciting when Elizabeth Stark tweeted about it and I was still into the steamy number two mother of all alt-coin dingle-berries coin.

I still use the number one electronic currency in the world, the United States dollar to pay my bills. To do that, I sometimes need to use atomic swaps from bitcoin to USD . Strike probably uses Tether to make it happen so fast. I could swap into USD-T using Aqua Wallet, but I don't need to because I live in the United States and have financial privilege. This allows me to easily swap in and out of the bitcoin and dollars like fancy-suit wearing FOREX kingpin. I can send bitcoin from Aqua wallet(Which is actually Liquid-BTC to Strike using the lightning network. Why? Because I need to use the USD to pay my bills. I can also send fiat from my too big to fail bank account to River using Strike* as an intermediate! Jack Maller's explained it using an analogy I would like to share.

In this analogy:

The dollars in my too big to fail bank are tortilla chips.

The peanut is bitcoin on the lightning network.

I can send my tortilla chips from bank of too big to fail to Strike and Strike to River in about ten seconds. The tortilla chip magically transforms into a peanut like a shapeshifter and travels through a communication channel at the speed of light. It reaches River in almost no time. Then my peanut can transform back to a tortilla chip. I can stack those tortilla chips in my River savings account. This tortilla chip earns 3.8% interest paid in peanuts. Of course, if you are alergic to peanuts as Mallers says, you can only deal with tortilla chips. Which reminds me, have you seen the price of Tortilla chips laced with canola oil and lately? Maltodextrin lovers can automatically convert the bitcoin…I mean uh…peanuts they might receive from people who prefer peanuts into tortilla chips. IT doesn't take 5 days either. It takes seconds!

Building An E-Commerce Store

If I could summarize my Bachelor's degree in one sentence, that sentence would be, “Show don't tell.” This tortilla chip analogy is cool, but the best thing to do would be to start my own e-commerce store. Is it a business? Is it a home lab? I'm not sure, but I know I am not likely to convince other "businesses to accept bitcoin" unless I show them instead of tell the about what an amazing communications network we are using here. Somewhere along the way, people wearing shark-skin suits tried to convince the people bitcoin is an investment you should let a well-respected, too big to fail institution hold for you. I wish to go back to the roots and use bitcoin like a man who preferred to influence the world with his ideas instead of his ethos.

“Receivers of transactions will normally need to hold transactions for perhaps an hour or more to allow time for this kind of possibility to be resolved. They can still re-spend the coins immediately, but they should wait before taking an action such as shipping goods.”

[“Instantant non-repudiability is not a feature, but it's still much faster than existing systems. Paper cheques can bounce up to a week or two later. Credit card transactions can be contested up to 60 to 180 days later. Bitcoin transactions can be sufficiently irreversible in an hour or two.”]((https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/10/)

--Satoshi Nakamoto

I still believe in using bitcoin as a payment rail.

I still believe we can get paid in bitcoin and live in a fiat world.

I still believe we can mitigate the risk of bank failures without relying on bailouts and endless debt.

And I can still have fun. I'm basically like one of these dudes selling t-shirts on the freeway, but on the Internet.

✌️

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*The links are referrals. I get a small commission if you sign up with these accounts using my referral. That being said, I would never endorse putting all your money in a centralized service. I like these companies because they do it better than most exchanges. River has a proof-of-reserve, automatic withdrawals to a bitcoin wallet. The fiat is FDIC insured (which still requires trust in the FDIC). This is not financial nor cybersecurity advice. Be aware that bitcoin does have risk of loss, of ten due to human error. Please consult a professional if you need financial or cybersecurity advice.

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Table Of Content

• Bitcoin's Past Successes and Failures: An Overview

• Factors Influencing Bitcoin's Future

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin, the first decentralized cryptocurrency, has taken the financial world by storm. Its volatility and potential for massive gains have captivated investors and enthusiasts alike. However, as with any investment, there are always questions surrounding its future. Is Bitcoin heading for another bull run, or is it on the verge of a catastrophic bust? In this article, we will delve into the numbers and trends to shed light on the potential future of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin's Past Successes and Failures: An Overview

To understand Bitcoin's future, it's essential to examine its past. Bitcoin's journey has been marked by tremendous highs and devastating lows, making it a rollercoaster ride for investors. Let's take a closer look at its historical performance.

The Early Years: Bitcoin's Humble Beginnings

In 2009, Bitcoin emerged as a concept, and its initial value was next to nothing. However, over time, its popularity grew, and by 2010, it gained some value. In May 2010, a historic moment occurred when Laszlo Hanyecz famously purchased two pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoins. Little did anyone know that those Bitcoins would be worth millions in the future.

The 2017 Bull Run: Bitcoin's Rise to Prominence

The year 2017 witnessed an unprecedented surge in Bitcoin's value, attracting global attention. Bitcoin's price skyrocketed from around $1,000 in January to nearly $20,000 in December. This massive growth sparked a frenzy among investors, leading to widespread adoption and media coverage.

The 2018 Bubble Burst: Bitcoin's Steep Decline

However, the euphoria didn't last long. In 2018, the cryptocurrency market experienced a significant crash, with Bitcoin's value plummeting to around $3,000 by the end of the year. This sharp decline shook investors' confidence and raised doubts about the long-term viability of Bitcoin.

Factors Influencing Bitcoin's Future

Bitcoin's future is shaped by various factors that impact its price, adoption, and overall market sentiment. Understanding these factors is crucial for predicting its future trajectory.

Market Adoption and Regulatory Developments

The widespread adoption of Bitcoin by businesses and individuals significantly impacts its value. As more companies accept Bitcoin as a form of payment and governments establish favorable regulatory frameworks, Bitcoin's future looks promising. However, regulatory challenges and negative news can hinder its growth.

Technological Advancements and Innovation

Bitcoin's future is intrinsically linked to technological advancements and innovation within the cryptocurrency space. The development of scaling solutions, improved security measures, and enhanced user experience can propel Bitcoin to new heights.

Global Economic Conditions

Bitcoin's value is closely tied to global economic conditions. During times of economic uncertainty, such as political instability or inflationary pressures, Bitcoin often emerges as a safe haven asset. Conversely, stable economic conditions may dampen its growth potential.

Investor Sentiment and Speculation

The speculative nature of Bitcoin makes investor sentiment a significant driver of its price fluctuations. Positive news, endorsements from influential figures, or large-scale institutional investments can fuel optimism and trigger a bull run. On the other hand, negative sentiment can lead to a bearish market.

Conclusion

While predicting Bitcoin's future with absolute certainty is impossible, analyzing historical trends and considering various factors can provide valuable insights. Bitcoin's path has been filled with remarkable highs and gut-wrenching lows, making it an intriguing investment option. As always, investors should exercise caution, diversify their portfolios, and stay updated with the latest developments in the cryptocurrency space.

FAQ

Is investing in Bitcoin still profitable? While Bitcoin has experienced significant price volatility, many investors have made substantial profits.

What caused the 2018 Bitcoin crash? The 2018 Bitcoin crash was influenced by a combination of factors, including regulatory uncertainties, a decline in market sentiment, and the bursting of the speculative bubble that had formed in the previous year.

Can Bitcoin replace traditional currencies? Bitcoin's potential to replace traditional currencies remains a subject of debate. While it offers benefits such as decentralization and borderless transactions, challenges related to scalability, regulatory hurdles, and public acceptance need to be overcome.

What role do institutional investors play in Bitcoin's future? Institutional investors, such as hedge funds and asset management firms, have started to show interest in Bitcoin. Their participation can bring stability, liquidity, and increased mainstream adoption, positively impacting Bitcoin's future.

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Ele oferece uma experiência de uso diário que coloca o controle sobre os dados pessoais nas mãos dos usuários. Uma das principais características do CalyxOS é sua abordagem proativa em relação à segurança, fornecendo recomendações e atualizações automáticas que simplificam o processo de proteção dos dados pessoais.O CalyxOS está disponível pra maioria dos modelos de Pixel da Google e agora está disponível pra alguns modelos Motorola G32, G42 e G52.

O CalyxOS é um sistema operacional criado por uma equipe internacional de voluntários e funcionários do Calyx Institute, uma organização sem fins lucrativos sediada em Nova York, EUA. A história do Calyx Institute remonta a 2010, quando seu fundador e diretor executivo, Nicholas Merrill, enfrentou questões de segurança e privacidade cibernética. Merrill havia recebido uma Carta de Segurança Nacional do FBI em 2004 por ser proprietário de um provedor de serviços de Internet, o que o levou a desafiar constitucionalmente o estatuto do USA Patriot Act.

Motivado por essa experiência, Merrill fundou o Calyx Institute com o objetivo de aumentar a conscientização sobre privacidade online, vigilância e acessibilidade por meio do desenvolvimento de software, defesa e divulgação. Ao longo de sete anos, a organização conseguiu estabelecer sua estrutura organizacional, obteve status de isenção de impostos 501(c)(3), formou um painel consultivo, estabeleceu parcerias com organizações líderes e angariou apoio de fundações e apoiadores.

O Calyx Institute é uma organização sem fins lucrativos focada em tecnologia e tem como missão desenvolver, testar e distribuir software de privacidade gratuito, além de trabalhar para reduzir a divisão digital. A organização conta com o apoio de membros, o que lhe permite desenvolver serviços de privacidade avançados na Internet e disponibilizá-los gratuitamente. O objetivo do Calyx Institute é crescer e expandir suas atividades, encontrando formas inovadoras de defender a privacidade, segurança e acessibilidade online. Entre os serviços oferecidos pelo Calyx Institute, destaca-se o serviço VPN gratuito baseado no projeto de código aberto LEAP. Além disso, eles planejam expandir sua oferta para incluir uma solução de e-mail criptografado baseada em nuvem. O Calyx Institute também hospeda vários nós de saída do Tor, que fornecem acesso à Internet sem censura em países onde a censura governamental é um problema.

O CalyxOS é uma iniciativa do Calyx Institute, uma organização sem fins lucrativos que se dedica ao desenvolvimento de software de privacidade e defesa da liberdade e acessibilidade na Internet.

CalyxOS é diferente. Acreditamos que o dispositivo em seu bolso deve sempre funcionar para seus melhores interesses. Nossos princípios orientadores incluem:

• Privacidade : Você deve ter controle total sobre seus próprios dados pessoais.  Nosso princípio orientador é Privacy By Design , uma abordagem que incorpora seus interesses em cada etapa do processo de design e desenvolvimento.

• Segurança : Seu dispositivo não deve surpreendê-lo. O significado de segurança é diferente para todos. Talvez você esteja preocupado com governos repressivos, censura, vigilância, ransomware ou apenas com seu amigo intrometido lendo suas mensagens. O que quer que seja importante para você, seu dispositivo não deve surpreendê-lo vazando informações que parecem seguras ou expondo seu dispositivo a vários ataques.

• Usabilidade : Privacidade e segurança não são muito úteis se estiverem disponíveis apenas para aqueles que já são tecnologicamente experientes. Acreditamos que é possível construir uma tecnologia fácil de usar e com os mais altos padrões de proteção de dados.

A tecnologia por trás do CalyxOS CalyxOS é construído sobre muitos projetos de software livre. Os principais incluem:

O Android Open Source Project (AOSP) é o backbone principal para todos os telefones Android que fabricantes como a Samsung desenvolvem. Mantido pelo Google, o AOSP recebe contribuições de desenvolvedores de todo o mundo.

O microG fornece uma reimplementação de código aberto dos serviços proprietários do Google Play. A maioria dos dispositivos Android vem com Play Services para fornecer, entre outras coisas, acesso à Play Store, notificações push, rastreamento de publicidade e serviços de localização. Embora alguns desses sejam ótimos recursos, o Play Services também é um sistema proprietário fechado usado pelo Google para rastrear seu comportamento. CalyxOS inclui microG , permitindo que muitos dos aplicativos que você adora funcionem sem o Play Services.

F-Droid é uma loja de aplicativos alternativa para Android para aplicativos gratuitos e de código aberto. O CalyxOS integrou o F-Droid de forma que seja mais fácil usá-lo como fonte principal de aplicativos móveis. Além disso, incluímos a Aurora Store , uma loja de aplicativos que permite instalar qualquer aplicativo na Google Play Store.

Vários aplicativos CalyxOS são escritos especificamente para CalyxOS para aprimorar a usabilidade e a privacidade. Isso inclui SeedVault , um aplicativo para backups criptografados e seguros, e Datura , um aplicativo para fornecer controle refinado sobre o acesso à rede.

Além disso, o CalyxOS se baseia fortemente na comunidade e no código do LineageOS . O LineageOS é um sistema operacional alternativo baseado no Android com ênfase na compatibilidade e personalização do dispositivo.

Privacidade por projeto Com o CalyxOS, nosso princípio fundamental é a privacidade por design. Este é um processo de design e desenvolvimento orientado por valores que concentra as necessidades dos usuários acima de tudo.

O que isso significa na prática? Algumas ideias em Privacy By Design incluem:

• Bons padrões : há muitos casos em que o Android permite que o usuário controle seus dados, mas as opções estão escondidas nas configurações e podem ser confusas para o usuário. O CalyxOS garante que a opção padrão seja sempre a opção que coloca a privacidade em primeiro lugar.

• Design centrado na privacidade : ao fazer escolhas de design e desenvolvimento, o CalyxOS coloca a privacidade no centro de todas as decisões.

• Design centrado no usuário : estamos continuamente nos perguntando como os usuários realmente se envolverão com o software e o que podemos fazer para garantir o comportamento menos surpreendente.

• Segurança de ponta a ponta : Sempre que possível, promovemos ferramentas e abordagens que garantem a criptografia total de todos os dados durante toda a sua vida, para que ninguém além de você tenha acesso a informações potencialmente confidenciais.

Aqui estão alguns exemplos de como essa abordagem chega ao CalyxOS:

• O CalyxOS não coloca seus dados na nuvem do Google nem informa constantemente sua localização ao Google.

• O CalyxOS Dialer facilita a atualização de sua chamada telefônica usando um método criptografado de ponta a ponta e lembra quando você está fazendo uma chamada insegura.

• O mecanismo de pesquisa padrão e os navegadores da Web bloqueiam rastreadores de publicidade e comportamento.

• Incluímos muitos aplicativos focados em segurança por padrão, como o Signal para mensagens seguras e o Navegador Tor para navegação na web totalmente anônima.

• O CalyxOS inclui serviços VPN gratuitos integrados de organizações confiáveis para proteger seu tráfego de rede e endereço IP.

• O CalyxOS é diligente em enviar atualizações de segurança regulares, oportunas e automáticas para o seu telefone.

• O SeedVault usa criptografia de ponta a ponta para fazer backup seguro do seu telefone via armazenamento USB ou nuvem.

O CalyxOS é uma opção atraente para usuários preocupados com a privacidade e a segurança de seus dispositivos Android.

Com seu foco na privacidade por design, atualizações automáticas de segurança e recursos integrados de proteção de dados, o CalyxOS oferece uma experiência de uso diário que permite aos usuários manter seus dados pessoais seguros e protegidos.

https://github.com/calyxos

https://calyxos.org/

Tutorial Feito por nostr:npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3 sobre CalyxOS em português.

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Rereading the past articles, they seem to get something mystical.

I really wrote this article and yes.

Yakihonne sent me 21 sats, thank you! ! !

I left some links to long articles, you can read them or not, sorry.

Elections are always recounts or broils, we can not vote or let anyone who does not complain, and then people use social media to complain and complain about hatred over these last, less hatred.

Vitor wrote a NPs for pexel feed, but he forgot videos. He called it Instagram feed, but I think when people now think about Instagram they think about reels and not photos with filters. You really want a social interaction, photo feed.

"I just want pictures to cover in the blog, or meme template"

I tried Cornychat, it works. Not having a microphone, the computer's microphone was freaking out, from the phone I felt the computer's return. It has many features, including chat, slide, post on Nostr. It has a secret mood and you can share the room with the link. I'll have to buy a microphone for Christmas, I don't think I do, I'm afraid it's the way to start a podcast.

I'm trying to make a client that counts I like, zap and RT. The first takes from global, the second takes from your timeline. I did one for long form article.

Openvibe added Threads, first version. So from threads to Nostr 🤙

Always the usual thing if sending spam to people or not, I opted for no. Just give random answers to random people. Only naive, standard answers. No more vattelapesca situation increases only expectations, then he knows something. I don't know anything. But maybe I could do two broken links. I like it as a name for a site, maybe that of AI local-first & whatsever projects. Waiting for this to become something

WoT Max 0.2 on coracle feed to avoid influncer, I think Voyager can use this NPs, has almost everything ready.

1. Laeserin, silberengel or or one of these names wrote an article How to find humans on Nostr

   I haven't read it yet. How to find humans and avoid them. I think her logic is focused on fix the world, fix Bitcoin, fix Nostr. That just what a human person would do. I am pleased to have found these users and if necessary interact with them, it is like a microcosm. If there are few users better it will end sooner.

Good thing I'm doing my algorithm so I can get it with myself for the results.

I upgraded to nostr_sdk 0.35.1

If Yakihonne becomes a content creator application, I'll have to look for another platform, I have to see if freerse is still available.

Someone wrote on Mastodon that Nostr is a place for:

The best place to talk alone is definitely #Nostr :blobfoxangrylaugh:

Cool means you can do your things makes public gifts without need of privacy (lol) If you are a developer build, the rest is secondary.

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Still too early and content creator don't use, but if it does trend they can start using.

I downloaded Yakihonne app and looks good, there are still bugs with Amber. As soon as it was downloaded at the opening it blocked the phone, scrolling I was watching a video, but then the video lasted like 10 minutes, maybe it's good to put only previews of 30 s in the feed. I think the bugs will be resolved soon and have already been reported is normal that when you launch an integration but then you don't have feedback you don't know if it's actually working.

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When it rains, I think of the floods that have hit recently.

Cody started making the client that Fiatjaf wanted, what I mentioned last week.

What cringe story Google+ post on Mastodon

Google+ is like believing in BAT tokens. I remember the days of Google+ I had a blog about blogger who automatically posted. The circles were an interesting concept, I remember that there were influencer lists. Google podcast more recently 😔😔

1. Nostr build has a multimedia player (Audio,Video) 🤙, i think it's mostly for mobile phones song link link player

Vote only if you know that one of the two parts is against you, or it has as an "enemy" target a category of which you are part.

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14 Signposts to Slavery

1. Restrictions on taking money out of the country and on the establishment or retention of a foreign bank account by an American citizen.

2. Abolition of private ownership of hand guns.

3. Detention of individuals without judicial process.

4. Requirements that private financial transactions be keyed to social security numbers or other government identification so that government records of these transactions can be fed into a computer.

5. Use of compulsory education laws to forbid attendance at presently existing private schools.

6. Compulsory non-military service.

7. Compulsory psychological treatment for non-government workers or public school children.

8. An official declaration that anti-communist (Patriot) organizations are subversive and subsequent legal action taken to suppress them.

9. Laws limiting the number of people allowed to meet in a private home.

10. Any significant change in passport regulations to make passports more difficult to obtain.

11. Wage and price controls, especially in a non-wartime situation.

12. Any kind of compulsory registration with the government of where individuals work.

13. Any attempt to restrict freedom of movement within the United States.

14. Any attempt to make a new major law by executive decree (that is, actually put into effect, not merely authorized as by existing executive orders.)

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Stop kidding yourself.

I'm too impressed by the quality of German workers, and I've learned too much in the programs here, to ever claim that professional certifications and academic qualifications are useless. They don't all carry equal weight, but they do all communicate real traits, experience, or knowledge, that are attractive to customers.

Even possessing a qualification or exam result, from Branch A, can benefit you in Branch B. I am, for instance, not a computer scientist, by certification. I am a logistics manager and freight-forwarding agent. Software companies invariably find that interesting because of what that entails: focus on clear planning and getting concrete results, well-organized, quick-thinking and staying calm under pressure, used to dealing directly with all sorts of people, understanding marketing, logical thinking skills, experience with databases and algorithms, etc.

People who have no qualification like to claim anyone could get one, but then they should prove it in the attempt. My own apprenticeship program took 2-3 years and 30% fail the exam, on the first attempt.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

Try to get professional insurance without a formal certificate. You will pay more, due to being a higher risk. If you pay enough, it's probably cheaper, mid-term, to go back and get the paper.

Our car insurance even offers cheaper rates to engineers because they've crunched the numbers. It can effect your life insurance costs. And people will pay a Meister more than a Journeyman, and a CPA more than a bookkeeper, for the same work.

Less would bring more

Getting rid of government licensing doesn't lead to a free-for-all, where everyone can just self-elect themselves as a neurosurgeon and start cutting peoples' heads open. It leads to more private qualifications, to fill the information gap, with branding.

If anything, private qualifications are harder to acquire, not easier, since they have to maintain signal, to stay on the market. That is why the IHK-lead (Chamber of Commerce) apprenticeship system, common to Germanic countries, is one of the best in the world and people everywhere are trying to copy it: the businesses, who hire and pay the apprentices, determine the curriculum, and decide which persons qualify.

Most qualifications are already private and not covered by licensing laws. The market demands them; the market receives them.

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L'amore per l'umanità è un tema che ha attraversato secoli di pensiero filosofico, etico e politico. Tuttavia, nel contesto contemporaneo, la definizione di questo amore si complica ulteriormente, specialmente quando si considera l'ideologia del globalismo. Chi si definisce "globalista" spesso proclama un amore universale per l'umanità, ma è fondamentale interrogarsi su cosa significhi realmente questo amore e quale tipo di umanità venga abbracciato.

L'umanità del globalista: una massa informe

Il globalismo, nella sua essenza, propone una visione dell'umanità che trascende le specificità culturali, etniche e nazionali. In questo contesto, l'umanità è concepita come un'entità astratta, priva di radici e di identità. Essa diventa una massa informe, un aggregato di individui che si muovono secondo logiche economiche e politiche globali, spesso disconnettendosi dalle tradizioni e dalle peculiarità che caratterizzano i diversi popoli. Questo approccio, sebbene possa apparire inclusivo e progressista, rischia di ridurre l'individuo a un mero ingranaggio di un sistema più grande, sacrificando l'autodeterminazione e l'autenticità culturale sull'altare di un'uguaglianza imposta.

L'uguaglianza come discriminazione

Il concetto di "uguaglianza" promosso dai globalisti, pur essendo nobile in teoria, si traduce spesso in una forma di omologazione che ignora le differenze fondamentali tra le culture. Questa parità, che si presenta come un ideale di giustizia sociale, può assumere il sapore della discriminazione, poiché tende a marginalizzare le microrealtà e le specificità locali. In questo senso, l'amore per l'umanità diventa un'ideologia che, anziché esaltare la diversità, la mortifica, imponendo un modello unico di esistenza che non tiene conto delle storie, delle tradizioni e delle aspirazioni dei singoli popoli.

Amare l'umanità: un atto di rispetto per il "Volksgeist"

Amare veramente l'umanità implica un riconoscimento e un rispetto per ogni popolo nella sua unicità. Significa esaltare il "Volksgeist", lo spirito di ogni nazione, e comprendere che la ricchezza dell'umanità risiede proprio nella sua diversità. Ogni cultura, ogni tradizione, ogni forma d'arte e mestiere rappresenta un contributo unico al patrimonio collettivo dell'umanità. L'amore autentico per l'umanità non può prescindere dal riconoscimento di queste differenze, ma deve piuttosto celebrarle e proteggerle.

La schiavitù moderna: una servitù senza catene

La visione globalista, con la sua tendenza a uniformare e standardizzare, può essere vista come una forma di schiavitù moderna, una servitù senza catene. Questa schiavitù si manifesta nella perdita di identità e nella disconnessione dalle proprie radici culturali. L'individuo, privato della sua storia e della sua cultura, diventa un consumatore passivo in un mercato globale, privo di un senso di appartenenza e di significato. In questo contesto, l'amore per l'umanità si trasforma in una legittimazione di un sistema che, sotto la maschera della libertà e dell'uguaglianza, perpetua forme di oppressione e alienazione.

Conclusione

In conclusione, l'amore per l'umanità, se inteso in modo autentico, deve necessariamente abbracciare la diversità e il particolare. La vera essenza dell'umanità risiede nelle sue molteplici espressioni culturali, nelle tradizioni che la definiscono e nei valori che la sostengono. Solo attraverso il rispetto e la valorizzazione di queste differenze possiamo sperare di costruire un futuro in cui ogni individuo possa sentirsi parte di un tutto, senza dover sacrificare la propria identità. L'amore per l'umanità, quindi, non è un'ideologia astratta, ma un impegno concreto a riconoscere e celebrare la ricchezza della nostra esistenza collettiva.

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ตรงตัวเลยครับ คือเล่นไฮโล แต่ผมเล่นไม่เป็น ผมขอข้ามนะครับ แต่ถ้าใครเล่นเป็นมีฝีมือเชิญได้ครับ

Lottery

เหมือนซื้อหวยครับ ประกาศผลทุกวันอาทิตย์ราคา 1 sat/1 lottery ผมเป็นคนที่ไม่มีดวงด้านนี้ ในชีวิตจริงขนาดได้หวยมาฟรี 3 - 4 ครั้งยังโดนกินเลยครับ ดังนั้นผมขอข้ามนะครับ แต่ถ้าใครมีดวงด้านเล่นหวย เชิญได้ครับ

Free BTC

อันนี้เป็นแหล่งหลักที่ผมทำเงินจากเวบนี้ และผมแนะนำให้ทุกคนทำเช่นกัน เพราะมันไม่มีอะไรต้องเสีย แถมการันตีว่าในชั่วโมงนั้นเพื่อนๆได้ sat แน่ๆ แต่จะได้มากหรือน้อยแล้วแต่ดวง

วิธีการก็คือทุก 1 ชั่วโมง จะมีการทอยลูกเต๋าโดยการกด click

อย่างรูปนี้ผมพึ่งกดไป ก็ต้องรออีก 44 นาทีถึงจะเล่นครั้งต่อไปได้

ทางเวบจะสุ่มตัวเลข lucky number ออกมาให้ เราจะได้ sat ตามตัวเลขที่เราได้ครับ รางวัลสูงสุด มีมูลค่า 200 USD เทียบในหน่วย sat ณ ขณะนั้นครับ เวบนี้อ้างอิงราคากับ bitstamp ครับ

ช่วงปี 2023 ที่ราคา BTC/USD ย่ำอยู่แถวๆ 20,000 ตอนนั้นรางวัลขั้นต่ำคือ 7sat แต่เมื่อราคา BTC/USD สูงขึ้น จำนวนรางวัลก็ลดลงตามสัดส่วน ต่ำสุดก็คือ 1 sat/ชั่วโมง

ลองคิดเล่นๆว่าถ้าเพื่อนๆทำงานอยู่หน้าจออยู่แล้ว ก็มากดเล่นชั่วโมงละครั้ง อย่างต่ำๆก็ได้วันละ 24 sat ครับ

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Earn BTC

เป็นอีกวิธีนึงที่ผมแนะนำ วิธีการก็คือถ้าเพื่อนๆมีขั้นต่ำ 30,000 sat อยู่ใน wallet ทางเวบจะจ่ายดอกเบี้ยให้ปีละ 4.08% (APR 4.08%) โดยจะสุ่มจ่ายในเวลาที่แตกต่างกันในแต่ละวัน แต่จ่ายแน่นอน

ทางเวบให้เหตุผลเอาไว้ว่าเพื่อป้องกันไม่ให้มี whale วางเงินก้อนใหญ่เข้ามาเมื่อกินดอกเบี้ยแล้วถอนออก ฝากเงินเข้าๆออกๆ อันนี้ผมเข้าใจได้ว่ามันจะกระเทือนต่อ cashflow ของเขา และอาจจะพังได้ ลามมาไปถึง user คนอื่นๆ

เมื่อวานนี้วันที่ 1 Nov 2024 ผมพึ่งสะสม sat ได้ 68,638 Sat จากการ Betting ผมก็เลยพึ่งได้ดอกเบี้ย 7 sat/วัน เมื่อวานวันแรกครับ

จะเห็นว่าเขาทำตารางคำนวณดอกเบี้ยไว้ให้เรียบร้อย สะดวกดีครับ

ความเห็นของผม ผม ไม่แนะนำ ให้เพื่อนฝาก sat เข้ามานะครับ ถึงแม้ว่าเวบนี้จะดูน่าเชื่อถือ ฝากถอนได้ไม่มีปัญหา แต่ third party risk ก็ยังมี

แต่ถ้าใครรับความเสี่ยงได้ แบ่งเงินไว้แล้ว เชิญได้ครับ

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Betting

วิธีการนี้เป็นวิธีการที่ผมปั้น sat ให้งอกได้มากที่สุดครับ มันก็คือการพนันแทงข้างดีๆนั่นแหละครับ กิจกรรมมีให้แทงผลบอล , บาสเกตบอล , เทนนิส , รถแข่ง และกีฬาดังๆแมทช์หยุดโลกทั้งหลายครับ

ง่ายๆก็คือแทงถูกได้ตังค์ แทงผิดเสียตังค์

ตังอย่างครับ

แต่ผมดูกีฬาพวกนี้ไม่เป็นหรอก ผมอาศัยดูข่าวตอนเช้า แล้วเลือกแทงในแมทช์ที่ผมเห็นว่าผมมีโอกาสแทงถูกมากที่สุด แล้วก็เอากำไรไปครับ เวลาลงเงินผมก็ลงเฉพาะในส่วนที่พร้อมที่จะเสียได้ เหมือนการทำ money management ตอนเทรดเก็งกำไรทั่วๆไปครับ

แต่ผมไม่ได้แทงกีฬาเป็นหลักหรอกครับ ผมเลือก predict ช่วงราคาของ BTC/USD ครับ

อันนี้คือรายการแทงล่าสุดที่ผมได้กำไรมา 5 เท่าครับ คาดว่า ราคา BTCUSD จะอยู่ที่เท่าไหร่ในเวลา 23.59 UTC (ราคาปิดของ daily chart ก่อนขึ้นแท่งใหม่เวลา 7.00 ของประเทศไทย GMT+7 นั่นแหละครับ) วันที่ 31 ตค.2024

ผมเลือกแทงช่วงราคา 70,000 - 75,000 โดยวางเงินไว้ 11,699 sat ได้ผลกำไรมา 68,610 sat ครับ คิดเป็นกำไรประมาณ 5.8x ได้

แต่ผมไม่ได้หลับหูหลับตาแทงสุ่มสี่สุ่มแปดนะครับ ผมอาศัยความรู้ technical analysis มาช่วยวิเคราะห์หาความน่าจะเป็น

เริ่มแรกผมเปิด Weekly chart ก่อน ในวันที่ผมทำการแทง มันคือกราฟแท่งที่ผมชี้ลูกศรสีแดง ผมเห็นราคากำลัง rally ขึ้นไป เป็นเทรน ผมเห็นการเคลื่อนที่แบบนี้มันน่าจะเป็น non standard small x wave (ภาษา Elliot wave ใครไม่เข้าใจ ข้ามไปก่อนครับ)

เพื่อ confirm ผม zoom เข้าไปดู daily chart เห็นภาพนี้

ลูกศรสีแดงตำแหน่งเดียวกัน แต่ขยายเข้ามาดู daily chart เป็นการ confirm non standard small x wave อาศัยความน่าจะเป็นและความรู้จาก Elliot wave ผมสรุปว่าช่วงสิ้นเดือนตค. ราคาน่าจะไปอยู่ range 70,000 - 75,000 แถวๆนั้นแหละ

ผมวางเงินแทงตามแผน แล้วก็ปิดจอไปเลยครับ เพราะมันไม่ต้องมาเฝ้าจอเหมือนการเทรดเก็งกำไร อันนั้นปวดหัว มาดูอีกทีตอน วันสิ้นเดือน นี่คือผลลัพธ์ครับ

กราฟ H1 ราคาปิดอยู่แถวๆ 70,700 เข้าเงื่อนไขชนะครับ ผมก็เก็บกำไรมา ทำให้ sat ของผมแตะใน area ที่สามารถได้ APR

ความเห็นของผม ผมมองว่ามันทดแทนการเทรดเก็งกำไรได้ เพราะการเทรดมันต้องมีการวางจุด stop loss และ take profit

สำหรับตัวผมเอง ผมไม่มีปัญหาในการวาง stop loss แต่มีปัญหาในการ take profit ผมชอบ run trend และไปขายที่จุดสูงสุดที่เป็นไปได้

อันนี้เป็นนิสัยเสียของผม ติดกับดักความโลภที่อยากจะกินคำใหญ่ แต่สุดท้ายตลาดก็เอาคืนครับ unrealized profit ค่อยๆหดลงๆ แล้วกลายเป็นเท่าทุน หรือไม่ก็ขาดทุน

แต่เมื่อวิธีนี้ มันทดแทนการเทรดได้ ไม่ต้องกำหนดจุด take profit เป็นราคาเป๊ะ แต่กำหนดเป็นช่วงราคาที่กว้างๆ ถึง 5,000 USD มันเลยง่ายขึ้นสำหรับผมครับ

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The Oakland A's are on the brink of a significant change, and not everyone is happy about it. The team's future is shrouded in uncertainty, and the actions of the owner, John Fisher, have come under intense scrutiny.

https://image.nostr.build/9ecbf15dcbc62ecf6a0bbc6d702678da62a97177994ea39c57b0490f2d72cb06.jpg Recently, a hat, dubbed the "Ass Hat," was briefly available for sale, and it has sparked a heated debate among fans. Some see it as a metaphor for the A's current state, while others view it as a misguided marketing attempt. Regardless, its brief viral fame and subsequent withdrawal have added to the narrative of the A's turbulent decade.

Fisher's recent letter to the public, allegedly written by an employee, has also raised eyebrows. The letter, filled with spelling errors and a tone-deaf approach, has been criticized for its lack of sincerity and understanding of the team's history and fanbase.

The A's potential relocation to West Sacramento or Las Vegas has further fueled the controversy. Critics argue that Fisher's power-carelessness has damaged the franchise's viability, making it a challenge to the imagination. The team's future seems as uncertain in these potential new homes as it did in Oakland.

Fisher's actions have made him a polarizing figure in the sports world. His obstinacy and lack of long-term planning have led to him being labeled as a detestable and least sympathetic sports figure in the nation.

As the A's prepare for their final game in Oakland, the focus is not on the game itself, but on the franchise's bleak future. The A's story is a cautionary tale of ownership, fan engagement, and the future of a historic franchise.

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One year ago I wrote the article Why Nostr resonates in Dutch and English after I visited the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023 conference and the Nostrdam event. It got published at bitcoinfocus.nl (translated in Dutch). The main reason why I wrote that piece is that I felt that my gut feeling was tellinng me that Nostr is going to change many things on the web.

After the article was published, one of the first things I did was setting up this page on my website: https://sebastix.nl/nostr-research-and-development. The page contains this section (which I updated on 31-10-2024):

One metric I would like to highlight is the number of repositories on Github. Compared to a year ago, there are already more than 1130 repositories now on Github tagged with Nostr. Let's compare this number to other social media protocols and decentralized platforms (24-10-2024):

• Fediverse: 522
• ATProto: 159
• Scuttlebot: 49
• Farcaster: 202
• Mastodon: 1407
• ActivityPub: 444

Nostr is growing. FYI there are many Nostr repositories not hosted on Github, so the total number of Nostr reposities is higher. I know that many devs are using their own Git servers to host it. We're even capable of setting up Nostr native Git repositories (for example, see https://gitworkshop.dev/repos). Eventually, Nostr will make Github (and other platforms) absolute.

Let me continue summarizing my personal Nostr highlights of last year.

Organising Nostr meetups

This is me playing around with the NostrDebug tool showing how you can query data from Nostr relays. Jurjen is standing behind me. He is one of the people I've met this year who I'm sure I will have a long-term friendship with.

OpenSats grant for Nostr-PHP

In December 2023 I submitted my application for a OpenSats grant for the further development of the Nostr-PHP helper library. After some months I finally got the message that my application was approved... When I got the message I was really stoked and excited. It's a great form of appreciation for the work I had done so far and with this grant I get the opportunity to take the work to another higher level. So please check out the work done for so far:

• https://nostr-php.dev
• https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php

Meeting Dries

One of my goosebumps moments I had in 2022 when I saw that the founder and tech lead of Drupal Dries Buytaert posted 'Nostr, love at first sight' on his blog. These types of moments are very rare moment where two different worlds merge where I wouldn't expect it. Later on I noticed that Dries would come to the yearly Dutch Drupal event. For me this was a perfect opportunity to meet him in person and have some Nostr talks. I admire the work he is doing for Drupal and the community. I hope we can bridge Nostr stuff in some way to Drupal. In general this applies for any FOSS project out there.
Here is my recap of that Drupal event.

Attending Nostriga

A conference where history is made and written. I felt it immediately at the first sessions I attended. I will never forget the days I had at Nostriga. I don't have the words to describe what it brought to me.

I also pushed myself out of my comfort zone by giving a keynote called 'POSSE with Nostr - how we pivot away from API's with one of Nostr superpowers'. I'm not sure if this is something I would do again, but I've learned a lot from it.
You can find the presentation here. It is recorded, but I'm not sure if and when it gets published.

Nostr billboard advertisement

This advertisment was shown on a billboard beside the A58 highway in The Netherlands from September 2nd till September 16th 2024. You can find all the assets and more footage of the billboard ad here: https://gitlab.com/sebastix-group/nostr/nostr-ads. My goal was to set an example of how we could promote Nostr in more traditional ways and inspire others to do the same. In Brazil a fundraiser was achieved to do something similar there: https://geyser.fund/project/nostrifybrazil.

Volunteering at Nostr booths growNostr

This was such a great motivating experience. Attending as a volunteer at the Nostr booth during the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024 conference. Please read my note with all the lessons I learned here.

The other stuff

• The Nostr related blog articles I wrote past year:
  • Run a Nostr relay with your own policies (02-04-2024)
  • Why social networks should be based on commons (03-01-2024)
  • How could Drupal adopt Nostr? (30-12-2023)
  • Nostr integration for CCHS.social (21-12-2023)
• https://ccns.nostrver.se 
  CCNS stands for Community Curated Nostr Stuff. At the end of 2023 I started to build this project. I forked an existing Drupal project of mine (https://cchs.social) to create a link aggregation website inspired by stacker.news. At the beginning of 2024 I also joined the TopBuilder 2024 contest which was a productive period getting to know new people in the Bitcoin and Nostr space.
• https://nuxstr.nostrver.se 
  PHP is not my only language I use to build stuff. As a fullstack webdeveloper I also work with Javascript. Many Nostr clients are made with Javascript frameworks or other more client-side focused tools. Vuejs is currently my Javascript framework I'm the most convenient with. With Vuejs I started to tinker around with Nuxt combined with NDK and so I created a starter template for Vue / Nuxt developers.
• ZapLamp
  This is a neat DIY package from LNbits. Powered by an Arduino ESP32 dev board it was running a 24/7 livestream on zap.stream at my office. It flashes when you send a zap to the npub of the ZapLamp.
• https://nosto.re 
  Since the beginning when the Blossom spec was published by @hzrd49 and @StuartBowman I immediately took the opportunity to tinker with it. I'm also running a relay for transmitting Blossom Nostr events wss://relay.nosto.re.
• Relays I maintain
  I really enjoy to tinker with different relays implementations. Relays are the fundamental base layer to let Nostr work.

I'm still sharing my contributions on https://nostrver.se/ where I publish my weekly Nostr related stuff I worked on. This website is built with Drupal where I use the Nostr Simple Publish and Nostr long-form content NIP-23 modules to crosspost the notes and long-form content to the Nostr network (like this piece of content you're reading).

The Nostr is the people

Just like the web, the web is people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgvkslCzTo 

the people on nostr are some of the smartest and coolest i’ve ever got to know. who cares if it doesn’t take over the world. It’s done more than i could ever ask for. - @jb55

Here are some Nostriches who I'm happy to have met and who influenced my journey in Nostr in a positive way.

• Jurjen
• Bitpopart
• Arjen
• Jeroen
• Alex Gleason
• Arnold Lubach
• Nathan Day
• Constant
• fiatjaf
• Sync

Coming year

Generally I will continue doing what I've done last year. Besides the time I spent on Nostr stuff, I'm also very busy with Drupal related work for my customers. I hope I can get the opportunity to work on a paid client project related to Nostr. It will be even better when I can combine my Drupal expertise with Nostr for projects paid by customers.

Building a new Nostr application

When I look at my Nostr backlog where I just put everything in with ideas and notes, there are quite some interesting concepts there for building new Nostr applications. Filtering out, I think these three are the most exciting ones:

• nEcho, a micro app for optimizing your reach via Nostr (NIP-65)
• Nostrides.cc platform where you can share Nostr activity events (NIP-113)
• A child-friendly video web app with parent-curated content (NIP-71)

Nostr & Drupal

When working out a new idea for a Nostr client, I'm trying to combine my expertises into one solution. That's why I also build and maintain some Nostr contrib modules for Drupal.

• Nostr Simple Publish
  Drupal module to cross-post notes from Drupal to Nostr
• Nostr long-form content NIP-23
  Drupal module to cross-post Markdown formatted content from Drupal to Nostr
• Nostr internet identifier NIP-05
  Drupal module to setup Nostr internet identifier addresses with Drupal.
• Nostr NDK
  Includes the Javascript library Nostr Dev Kit (NDK) in a Drupal project.

One of my (very) ambitious goals is to build a Drupal powered Nostr (website) package with the following main features:

• Able to login into Drupal with your Nostr keypair
• Cross-post content to the Nostr network
• Fetch your Nostr content from the Nostr content
• Serve as a content management system (CMS) for your Nostr events
• Serve as a framework to build a hybrid Nostr web application
• Run and maintain a Nostr relay with custom policies
• Usable as a feature rich progressive web app
• Use it as a remote signer

These are just some random ideas as my Nostr + Drupal backlog is way longer than this.

Nostr-PHP

With all the newly added and continues being updated NIPs in the protocol, this helper library will never be finished. As the sole maintainer of this library I would like to invite others to join as a maintainer or just be a contributor to the library. PHP is big on the web, but there are not many PHP developers active yet using Nostr. Also PHP as a programming language is really pushing forward keeping up with the latest innovations. 

Grow Nostr outside the Bitcoin community

We are working out a submission to host a Nostr stand at FOSDEM 2025. If approved, it will be the first time (as far as I know) that Nostr could be present at a conference outside the context of Bitcoin. The audience at FOSDEM is mostly technical oriented, so I'm really curious what type of feedback we will receive.

Let's finish this article with some random Nostr photos from last year. Cheers!

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By Dr Farsalinos

A new study was published today in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health by our group, evaluating e-liquids for the presence of tobacco-derived toxins. Additionally, the accuracy of nicotine labelling was assessed. The study is novel because for the first time we assessed tobacco-flavored liquids for the presence of phenols and nitrate (known toxins in tobacco smoke), as well as nitrosamines. Moreover, we assessed a specific group of e-liquids (known as Natural Extracts of Tobacco – NETs), which are made by using cured tobacco leaves to extract the flavor. This is the first time that such liquids are specifically tested.

The study verified that tobacco-derived toxins are lower by orders of magnitude in e-liquids compared to tobacco products. Characteristically, nitrosamines were 146-1447 times lower in e-liquids compared to tobacco products (in 1 mL liquid compared to 1 gram of tobacco), while nitrate was 1360 times lower. NET liquids contained somewhat higher levels of tobacco-derived toxins compared to conventional e-liquids, but the levels were still significantly lower compared to tobacco. Deviation from labelled nicotine content was on average 5.9% for conventional e-liquids and 1.5% for NETs, with maximum deviation being 22.1%. Interestingly, no difference between conventional liquids and NETs were observed, indicating that the flavor extraction process does not lead to extraction of nicotine from the tobacco leaves.

The study adds to current evidence confirming the lower risk potential of e-cigarettes compared to tobacco. NET liquids contained more tobacco-derived toxins, but still much lower compared to tobacco.

In case you want to contact Dr Farsalinos and his team, please send email to:

drfarsalinos@ecigarette-research.org

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Questo articolo esplora la complessità dell'esperienza umana attraverso la lente della tristezza e della felicità, proponendo una distinzione tra le persone che si identificano rigidamente come tristi o felici e quelle che abbracciano la loro autenticità, vivendo un'alternanza di emozioni. Attraverso un'analisi filosofica, si indaga il significato di "essere veri" e si discute l'importanza di riconoscere e accettare la gamma completa delle emozioni umane.

Introduzione

La condizione umana è intrinsecamente legata a un ampio spettro di emozioni, tra cui la tristezza e la felicità. Queste due esperienze emotive sono spesso percepite come opposte, ma in realtà coesistono in una dinamica complessa. In questo contesto, è utile considerare non solo le persone che si definiscono rigidamente come tristi o felici, ma anche quelle che si riconoscono come "vere", capaci di navigare tra le diverse sfumature emotive. Questo articolo si propone di esaminare le implicazioni filosofiche di questa distinzione e di riflettere su come essa possa influenzare la nostra comprensione dell'autenticità e della realizzazione personale.

La Tristezza e la Felicità: Due Facce della Stessa Medaglia

La tristezza e la felicità sono spesso considerate come stati emotivi opposti, ma questa visione binaria può risultare limitante. La filosofia esistenzialista, ad esempio, suggerisce che la sofferenza e la gioia sono interconnesse e che la consapevolezza della propria mortalità e delle proprie vulnerabilità può arricchire l'esperienza della vita. In questo senso, la tristezza può essere vista come un elemento necessario per apprezzare la felicità. Le persone che si identificano esclusivamente come tristi o felici possono perdere di vista questa interconnessione, vivendo in una sorta di dualismo emotivo che limita la loro esperienza.

L'Autenticità dell'Essere Vero

Le persone "vere" rappresentano un paradigma alternativo. Queste individui non si limitano a una categorizzazione emotiva, ma abbracciano la complessità della loro esistenza. La filosofia di Søren Kierkegaard, ad esempio, enfatizza l'importanza dell'autenticità e della soggettività. Essere veri implica riconoscere e accettare tutte le emozioni, comprese quelle che possono sembrare negative. Questa accettazione porta a una maggiore comprensione di sé e degli altri, promuovendo una forma di empatia che trascende le etichette di tristezza e felicità.

La Dinamicità delle Emozioni

La vita è caratterizzata da un continuo fluire di emozioni. Le persone vere sperimentano alti e bassi, riconoscendo che la tristezza e la felicità non sono stati permanenti, ma piuttosto momenti transitori. Questa visione dinamica delle emozioni è supportata dalla psicologia positiva, che sottolinea l'importanza di sviluppare resilienza e consapevolezza emotiva. Le persone che abbracciano la loro autenticità tendono a essere più resilienti, poiché non temono di affrontare la tristezza, ma la vedono come parte integrante del loro viaggio.

Conclusione

In conclusione, la distinzione tra persone tristi, felici e quelle vere offre una prospettiva interessante sulla condizione umana. Riconoscere la complessità delle emozioni e abbracciare la propria autenticità può portare a una vita più ricca e significativa. La tristezza e la felicità non devono essere viste come opposti, ma come componenti di un'esperienza umana complessa e interconnessa. Solo attraverso l'accettazione di tutte le sfumature emotive possiamo aspirare a una comprensione più profonda di noi stessi e degli altri, promuovendo una società più empatica e autentica.

Bibliografia
- Kierkegaard, S. (1980). The Sickness Unto Death. Princeton University Press.
- Seligman, M. E. P. (2011). Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being. Free Press.
- Frankl, V. E. (2006). Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press.

Questo articolo si propone di stimolare una riflessione profonda sulla nostra esperienza emotiva e sull'importanza di vivere in modo autentico, accettando la dualità della nostra esistenza.

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2024 has been an interesting year, lets put it that way. It couldn't be over soon enough to be honest. One of my New Year's resolution this year was to give up caffeine. To be honest this has been something that I have been putting off for a very long time because I did enjoy caffeine and the energy boost that it would give you in the morning.

I was regularly drinking 2 energy drinks per day at my worst in combination with a few sodas to top it off. Needless to say I was buzzed on caffeine all day everyday for years. You don't really notice that you have a problem because everywhere you look, everything has caffeine in it. It's in our drinks, our foods and in our medication. It is hard to get away from this stuff unless you make a dedicated decision not to ingest the substance. In our society it is perfectly normal to drink and eat caffiene all day long and not think anything of it.

At the end of the day caffeine is still a drug and is classified as a stimulant to your nervous system. Drugs over time obviously becomes addicting over time and your body becomes reliant on the substance to function. I think it is fair to say that people that are hooked on caffeine in the classic sense are drug addicts. I don't mean that to be harsh but if you look at this issue objectively you can see how this fits the definition quite succinctly.

Whenever I didn't have coffee or a energy drink I would get headaches, I would also be in a bad mood or generally just irrigated at little things that people would do. Ironically it made me more tired. My heavy caffeine consumption also made it where it was hard to fall asleep and stay asleep.

At some point you get tired of being on this rollercoaster and want to do something different for the sake of my health and wellness. I want to live as long as possible and I know that in order to do that I have to get rid of some bad habits that I have, caffeine consumption being one of them. So last month I bit the bullet and gave up caffeine cold turkey. It has now been 35 days since I have had caffeine but let me tell you it wasn't easy.

No Wonder Addicts Don't Quit

The first two to three days where probably the worst I've felt in a long time. I would wake up feeling like crap with no energy and a massive headache that would stay with me all day and didn't really get better taking over the counter medication. I thought to myself at one point, "no wonder drug addicts don't quit, this sucks".

To be honest it was hard to function at all, I just wanted to sleep all day and not do anything. It was hard to take my kids to school or really be present for anything because of the way I felt. I also experienced anxiety, had a weird pins and needles sensation all over my body. I felt so bad that I contacted my primary care freaking out because I couldn't figure out what was going on.

I don't know about you but when I don't feel great I on my phone looking up symptoms and trying to diagnose myself, which ultimately makes me feel worse and kicks the anxiety up to a 11.

Around day 20 I started to feel like myself again without the caffeine cravings. When I go to the store and I see the soft drinks, coffees and energy drinks for sale the first thing that comes to mind is these stores are selling drugs to their customers. They are junkies coming to get their fix. Starbucks same way. Peddling drugs via a drive through.

Sure its's only been 35 days but I am feeling pretty confident that I can kick this habit for good because I can see the health benefits from stopping caffeine consumption. Here is what I have experience so far:

• Falling asleep more easily
• Feeling rested in the morning
• More sustained energy
• Leveled out mood
• Mental clarity
• Less on edge
• Feeling of accomplishment and contentment.

Taking my first step towards beating this addiction has given me hope to keep going and continue my journey of self improvement. I'll report back in 30 days to give you an update on how its going at day 60! I'm stoked that I've made it this far and can't wait to make it to 6 months or a full year with out caffeine.

No Time Like The Present

If you want to try to giving up caffeine for good, I would highly recommend it. The first step towards breaking the cycle is to make the decision to stop consuming caffeine. Once you made this sincere decision you can start on your journey towards living a more healthy life.

Once you stop you will notice how much this substance is on our daily lives and make the needed adjustments to avoid it. I find myself drinking way more water than I use to. Whenever I go out to dinner with my family I order a glass of water, thus saving our family a few bucks!

We don't need this dreadful substance in our lives. We have fruits, vegetables and meat to give us all the energy we need during the day.

What kept me accountable was having an app on my phone that would help me track the habit of not consuming caffeine. The app I use is called Onrise

It has helped me keep track of this long term habit change and is super easy to use with smooth user experience. I highly recommend this app to anyone. It is only on iOS unfortunately but any habit tracking app will do the trick.

I really hope that you decide to go on this journey. It is well worth it!! If you have questions please don't hesitate to reach out!

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NOV 2024 | ISSUE 3 | LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER | FOOD ART | LIFE EXPERIENCE | FEATURED RECIPE | KIDS CORNER | MICROFICTION | FOOD NOTE QUOTES | SOUNDS | UPCOMING EVENTS | ECONOMICS | COMMUNITY PHOTO ALBUM | NEW RECIPES

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LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER 📝

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Hello and welcome back to the cozy autumn days with Zap Cooking! I’m thrilled to bring you another issue of our monthly newsletter, a space where we share our favorite moments and celebrate our vibrant community. Sarah, who does an amazing job curating these updates, has crafted this edition to capture the essence of both real-life gatherings and our shared online experiences on Nostr.

In this issue, we’re excited to revisit highlights from Nostr Valley, where Zap Cooking was proud to sponsor and connect with friends in a truly special celebration. It was an incredible honor to see so many of you make the journey to join us for the first annual event—a milestone in Nostr’s history and a testament to the strength of our community.

As always, thank you for being a part of this journey. Your continued support, contributions, and readership mean everything to us. Here’s to more shared moments, connections, and, of course, great cooking!

Gratefully,

Seth

Founder, Zap Cooking

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FOOD ART 🎨

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LIFE EXPERIENCE ✈️

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Nostr Valley Adventures

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The adventures of Nostr Valley began when I was invited to speak on a food panel alongside Seth, the founder of Zap.Cooking, at Happy Valley Brewing in State College Park, Pennsylvania.

Over the course of a month before the event, a fellow fun enthusiast known as The Beave organized a weekend filled with activities and accommodations, including a visit to a gun range and a stay at a charming three-bedroom countryside rental nestled among Pennsylvania's most scenic farm hills.

The Nostr Valley weekend had finally arrived, and I was set to drive six and a half hours to a small airport primarily used by skydivers and flying enthusiasts who park their personal planes in rented hangars. I was to meet a pilot who went by the name "Choke This." Despite the somewhat ominous name, my faith in the Nostr web of trust circles provided a sense of safety as I prepared to fly to Pennsylvania. Still, the thought of traveling alone to a remote area did cross my mind a few times. While it may not have been the wisest decision, I had faith in Nostr.

I began my journey at 1 am, getting ready and preparing my car before hitting the highway around 4 am. Driving on the empty roads was a pleasant experience, and I felt even better when I arrived at the well-kept airport on a beautiful sunny morning at 10:30 am, with not a single cloud in the sky. I knew it was a perfect day for skydiving, which alleviated one of the many flying-related nerves swirling in my head. Great weather? Check!

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After a brief introduction to the non-threatening pilot, we loaded our gear into the rear of the plane and settled in for takeoff, complete with those cool headphones. As we patiently waited for all the skydivers to land from their jumps, I received a crash course on plane safety in case of an emergency landing.

We made our way to the small runway, and with a gentle breeze, we were soaring into the blue skies. The view was absolutely breathtaking. Every time I fly, the scenery reminds me of the model city in the Beetlejuice movie.

For the next three hours, the pilot and I got to know each other. We shared our Nostr stories, backgrounds, and family lives. The pilot also gave an impressive presentation on the features of his aircraft, including a lesson on how to read knots—the unit of speed.

We landed in Maryland to pick up another panel speaker, Mr. Scott Churchill, who would be joining the art panel with Dan, the creator of the Nostr-only comic "Bread and Toast." Scott is a loving father with remarkable artistic skills that included drawing and music.

The three of us entered the airport restaurant and took a window seat overlooking the runway to grab a quick bite. This is where I was introduced to Maryland’s love for Old Bay seasoning. The pilot was eager to order crab cakes, and I was initially going to join him, but as soon as I spotted "CRAB SOUP" on the menu board, my food plans changed. Once we ordered, the food arrived fairly quickly. The kind server placed a bowl of soup in front of me, complete with extra crackers and an Old Bay salt shaker. My face lit up as I exclaimed, “What is this!?” Scott explained that Old Bay is a staple in these parts. I poured the seasoning into my soup and took a taste. “I’m going to do this at home,” I declared before even swallowing the first spoonful. I devoured the rest of the soup, sprinkling Old Bay each time I removed a layer of the flavorful creamy broth. I was hooked.

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Once lunch was finished, we boarded the plane. I offered the front seat to Scott since it was his first time flying. He was a mix of emotions about the flight, but he did amazing and even got to fly the plane!

When we landed in State College Park, Pennsylvania, it felt as though we had become a family. There’s nothing quite like trusting strangers with your life for several hours in a flying machine to foster a sense of camaraderie.

We were off to meet our fourth companion—the organizer, the maestro, the one and only, THE BEAVE! He awaited us at the house, and upon our arrival, we felt an immediate sense of comfort.

The house was beautiful, the people were friendly, and it was time to invite other speakers and guests over for a magical steak dinner. Beave started the bonfire while the pilot fired up the grill. Guests began to arrive.

The steaks were so thick and stacked that I dubbed it "Steak Jenga." The guests gathered around the impressive pile of perfectly cooked meat, each grabbing a steak as large as their faces.

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After dinner, I had the opportunity to taste one of the best-flavored vodkas I had ever encountered: Blake’s Limited Edition x Gypsy Spirits’ Apple Pie Vodka, a vodka infused with Apple Cider & Cinnamon.

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I called it an early night due to all the traveling and being awake since 1 am, especially since I would be speaking on my first panel the next day. I wanted to be fresh and alert for the event. As soon as my head touched the pillow, I fell into a deep sleep. When I woke early the next morning, I felt rested and ready to conquer the day.

Beave and I were the only ones awake, so we headed to the nearest country store to see what breakfast supplies they offered. Upon entering the store, we found a convenience section on the left and a sit-down breakfast and lunch area on the right. We made our way to the cold section, where we discovered local dairy farm milk in half-gallon glass containers for only $3! I had to grab a jug. There were also small bottles of flavored milk, including strawberry milk, for less than $1.50.

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Beave and I picked up some eggs and butter, but the real treasure was the donuts. The lady behind the register was an excellent saleswoman, encouraging us to take home a container of these fluffy looking treats. I noticed Beave had already bought some right before I made my way to the register, so I thought, "Why not?" I grabbed a container of smaller individual donuts that would be perfect for sharing with the house.

Once we got to the car, we each took a bite of a donut and immediately began scarfing it down in ecstasy. It was moist, and the bakers hadn’t skimped on the glaze. There was no oily aftertaste—just rich, sweet goodness that I would absolutely recommend.

After returning to the house, we served breakfast and started getting dressed for Nostr Valley.

At this point, I was a bundle of nerves. As we arrived at Happy Valley Brewing, it was heartening to see so many familiar faces from Nostr. Avi Burra, author and host of Plebchain Radio, began hosting the event, introducing all the speakers and panels. Derek Ross, one of the organizers of Nostr Valley, opened the show with a "Nostr 101" speech. Then, the art panel, moderated by Seth—my “boss” from Zap.Cooking—featured Dan and Scott. Avi then demonstrated his Nostr medical application. The food crew, consisting of Seth and me, followed next, moderated by Boston Wine. Next Block made their rounds with Mandana and Ian. The Other Nostr Apps panel featured Derek, Vic, Boston Wine, and Avi. The infamous Open Mike spoke about music with Derek, and the event concluded with closing remarks from the two organizers.

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This was my first time speaking on a panel, and to say I was nervous would be an understatement. I practically clung to Seth the entire time and felt as though I blacked out while speaking. Nevertheless, I was proud to have made it through.

Afterward, a large group of us headed to the American Ale House, where we had a private section of the restaurant reserved. Avi and Derek’s shared dish was particularly notable—a nearly $90 certified angus beef tomahawk steak weighing in at 44 ounces.

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For the afterparty, we invited everyone to a bonfire and podcast session at our VRBO for mini podcast recordings. However, I ended up successfully talking for 45 minutes with the first attendee, and by then, everyone else grew tired of waiting. I was ready for bed after such a long day.

On Sunday morning, the sun streamed through my window as I woke up, and I realized it was shooting range day! Beave and I headed over to the country store for more donuts, but unfortunately, it was closed on Sundays. We took a drive to fill up the car with gas and grabbed a breakfast sandwich or two at the gas station. We gathered the rest of the group and made our way to PGC Scotia Shooting Range, where we spent six hours shooting a variety of guns outdoors.

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When we returned, we were starving and enjoyed a pleasant pheasant dinner filled with lively conversation.

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On Monday, we checked out of the VRBO. The day was cloudy, and the first part of the flight home was bumpy, but the sky cleared after we dropped off the other speaker. Once we landed back at the skydiving airport, I spent the rest of the evening driving home, finally walking in the door at 2 am.

My favorite part of the weekend wasn’t the speaking on stage or all the activities; it was the friendships I gained over those three days. I am truly grateful.

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FEATURED RECIPE 🥪

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KIDS CORNER 🐤

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MICROFICTION 📖

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TRICK OR TREAT? | Rustypuppy

“Remember, look into her orange eye, ask for a trick, and say ‘please.’” Janice fluffed the mane of my son’s lion costume and gave him a little push toward the dilapidated barn, decked out in creepy Halloween glory, complete with skeleton graveyard, tree ghosts, and a giant roof spider with glowing eyes.

Henry took two steps forward, then glanced back at me. I smiled and nodded. His brow furrowed, then he got in line with the other kids waiting for their turn at Granny Baba’s front door.

“You’re not traumatizing my five year old for life, are you?” I asked our babysitter.

The teen laughed. “He’s a brave little guy. I didn’t face her until I was seven. Relax, pops. Granny Baba is a rite of passage in this town. He’ll fit in better once he can say he got his trick. Besides, sometimes you gotta go through the scary to get to the good.”

After twelve minutes and eleven seconds, my son ran toward us, his face shining with joy. “I got the trick!” He showed off his jack o’ lantern candy bucket, which had contained the usual assortment of wrapped sugar and artificial ingredients, and now also held a clear plastic bag filled with lumpy darkness.

I side-eyed Janice as she took out the bag, opened it, and ate a handful. Henry did the same before I could stop him.

“This is …. good,” he said, frowning and chewing at the same time. “What’s the trick?”

“It’s healthy,” Janice replied. “All natural, sprouted granola.”

*RECIPE REFERENCE | Sprouted Bliss Granola - Essencial | Vegan | nostr:npub1c6dhrhzkflwr2zkdmlujnujawgp2c9rsep6gscyt6mvcusnt5a3srnzmx3

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FOOD NOTE QUOTES 🗒️

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SOUNDS 🔊

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MUSIC

HONEY | MARTIN GROOMS

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PODCASTS

TFTC

Courtney Swan breaks down how these harmful ingredients are fueling hyperactivity in children. | https://video.nostr.build/49e4c0db7da37748ac04071cab1fdc668b55aa346e08bf8501d6071bd59ab6e6.mp4 These 10 Companies Control The World To POISON YOU! | Marty sat down with Courtney Swan to expose how 10 Companies Control The entire Worlds food supply, and how they're producing food that's poisoning you and your family. | To watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSEiJ6C4MHk

BENPOD

BenPod.com featuring Twitter Co-Founder, Rabble | NOSTR Breaks Every Social Media Paradigm (BWP58) https://video.nostr.build/caaa77bb42bbfa2ddc04017ae45f68a95c162822edaa3084ffefeff4776ce0e0.mp4 | To watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/U-eNYRwyADI

PLEBCHAIN RADIO

Fermenting a Revolution with Ben Justman | Plebchain Radio | QW & Avi discuss the road to plebhood, building Peony Lane Vineyards, running a Bitcoin business, Creed, Nostr and more with Ben Justman. | Peony Lane Vineyard : https://www.peonylanewine.com/ | https://fountain.fm/episode/YMpNVBI3WjDv1Uttl1vd

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UPCOMING EVENTS 🥳

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Submit your Nostr event with @ZapCooking on Nostr

NOVEMBER 1

SoupBox Debut Listening Party| 7pm EST | ONLINE | zap.stream

NOVEMBER 6

The No-Conference Nostr Party at Bitcoin Park | Nashville, Tennessee | https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/303283108

NOVEMBER 8-9

Brazil's Largest 100% Bitcoin Event | São Paulo | https://www.satsconf.com.br/

DECEMBER 15-19

Sats By SW | A V4V Weekend | Austin, Texas | https://media.primal.net/uploads/2/e0/e1/2e0e1258d63c4b758eeeb48cc0892eaf35a99f083d0a1cf7be03d1382fc6b8bd.jpg

JANUARY 30-31

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ECONOMICS 🍞

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SAUSAGES | Peter McCormack

"...Mistakes, even trivial ones, are amplified in seconds. Look at the recent Labour Party conference, where Keir Starmer’s speech was meant to lay out his grand vision for fixing the country. Instead, a simple slip of the tongue—calling for the release of “sausages,” instead of “hostages”—became the story. Within hours, memes flooded the internet, and his entire message was lost in the noise..."

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COMMUNITY PHOTO ALBUM 📷

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Community Photo Album by The Beave, Derek Ross, Seth, Scott, T$, JD, Vic, Adam Toad, The Bitcoin Babe, Open Mike, Silberengel, inyahé, Bread and Toast, Nostr Valley, Atlantic Bitcoin Conference, TABconf, CornyChat, NostrNests | Share your Nostr community photos or videos with @ZapCooking

Nostr Valley

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Atlanta Bitcoin Conference

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TABConf

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👋 What's up, stackers & podcasters!
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TL;DR: Jamie now goes beyond file uploads! With this update, Jamie can access any podcast published on an RSS feed, making it super easy to get transcripts, summaries, blog posts, and more.

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Keeping a clean and organized home is essential for a healthy lifestyle, yet many people find it challenging to manage household chores alongside their busy schedules. This is where professional house cleaners come in. They offer various services tailored to meet individual needs, ensuring that homes are clean, organized, and welcoming. In this article, we will explore how house cleaners work, the different types of cleaning services available, methods and tools used, the hiring process, and tips for ensuring the best results from professional cleaning services.

Types of House Cleaning Services

House cleaning services can vary widely in scope and focus. Here are some of the most common types:

1. 1. Regular Cleaning

Regular cleaning is often a recurring service, such as weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. It typically includes:

Dusting surfaces

Vacuuming and mopping floors

Cleaning bathrooms (toilets, sinks, showers)

Kitchen cleaning (countertops, sinks, exterior of appliances)

General tidying up

1. 1. Deep Cleaning

Deep cleaning goes beyond regular cleaning and is usually recommended periodically (e.g., quarterly or bi-annually). It involves a thorough cleaning of all areas of the home, including:

Scrubbing baseboards and moldings

Cleaning behind and underneath furniture and appliances

Washing windows and window sills

Detailed cleaning of bathrooms and kitchens

Dusting light fixtures and ceiling fans

1. 1. Move-In/Move-Out Cleaning

This type of cleaning service is designed for individuals moving into or out of a home. It typically includes deep cleaning to prepare the space for new occupants or to leave it spotless for landlords. Tasks may involve:

Cleaning cabinets and drawers

Scrubbing floors and carpets

Washing walls

Removing trash

1. 1. Specialized Cleaning

Some house cleaning services specialize in certain areas or types of cleaning, such as:

Post-construction cleaning

Carpet and upholstery cleaning

Eco-friendly cleaning

Commercial cleaning for offices and businesses

1. 1. Organizational Services

In addition to cleaning, some house cleaners offer organizational services to help clients declutter and arrange their belongings efficiently. This may include:

Closet organization

Kitchen and pantry organization

Home office decluttering

How House Cleaners Work

1. 1. Initial Consultation

Most cleaning companies offer an initial consultation, either in-person or over the phone. During this consultation, clients discuss their cleaning needs, preferences, and any specific areas of concern. This helps the cleaning team prepare a tailored plan for the job.

1. 1. Assessment and Estimate

After understanding the client’s requirements, the cleaning company typically conducts an assessment of the space to determine the time and resources needed. Based on this assessment, they provide an estimate of the cost, which can vary depending on the size of the home, the type of cleaning service, and any additional requests.

1. 1. Scheduling the Service

Once the client agrees to the estimate, the next step is to schedule the cleaning service. Clients can choose a one-time service or set up a recurring schedule based on their preferences and needs.

1. 1. Preparing for the Cleaning Day

Before the cleaning team arrives, clients can prepare their homes by: Decluttering spaces (to make cleaning easier)

Communicating any specific cleaning instructions or areas to focus on

Securing pets in a safe area (if applicable)

1. 1. The Cleaning Process

When the cleaning team arrives, they typically follow a systematic approach to cleaning:

Arrival and Preparation: The team members will introduce themselves and review the cleaning plan with the client (if present). They may also gather their cleaning supplies and equipment.

Dusting and Surface Cleaning: The team starts by dusting high surfaces, such as ceiling fans and shelves, and works downwards to avoid spreading dust onto clean areas.

Vacuuming and Mopping: Floors are vacuumed first, followed by mopping or scrubbing, depending on the type of flooring.

Kitchen and Bathroom Cleaning: These areas often require the most attention. The team will sanitize countertops, sinks, appliances, and fixtures, ensuring that they are thoroughly cleaned.

Final Touches: After completing the main cleaning tasks, the team may do a final walk-through to ensure everything meets the client’s expectations.

1. 1. Post-Cleaning Inspection

After the cleaning is completed, some companies may offer a post-cleaning inspection to ensure that everything has been done to the client’s satisfaction. Clients are encouraged to provide feedback and discuss any areas that may need additional attention.

1. 1. Payment and Scheduling Future Services

Clients typically settle payment after the service is completed. Many cleaning companies offer online payment options for convenience. Clients can also schedule future services at this time if they wish to maintain a regular cleaning schedule.

Tools and Techniques Used by House Cleaners

1. 1. Cleaning Supplies

House cleaners often bring their cleaning supplies and equipment, which may include:

All-Purpose Cleaners: Used for various surfaces, including countertops and appliances.

Disinfectants: Important for sanitizing high-touch areas such as doorknobs, light switches, and bathroom fixtures.

Glass Cleaners: Used for windows and mirrors to achieve a streak-free shine.

Floor Cleaners: Specialized products for hardwood, tile, or carpeted surfaces.

1. 1. Cleaning Equipment

Common cleaning equipment used by professionals includes:

Vacuum Cleaners: High-quality vacuums with attachments for different surfaces.

Mops and Buckets: For mopping hard floors.

Microfiber Cloths: Effective for dusting and cleaning without leaving streaks.

Brooms and Dustpans: For quick clean-ups of dust and debris.

1. 1. Techniques and Best Practices

Professional cleaners often employ techniques to maximize efficiency and effectiveness, including:

Top-to-Bottom Cleaning: Cleaning high areas first to avoid redistributing dirt.

Zone Cleaning: Focusing on one area at a time for thoroughness.

Use of Microfiber: Utilizing microfiber cloths for dusting and cleaning, as they capture dust and dirt effectively without the need for harsh chemicals.

Hiring a House Cleaner: What to Consider When hiring a house cleaner, it’s essential to consider several factors to ensure a positive experience:

1. 1. Reputation and Reviews

Researching the reputation of a cleaning service is crucial. Look for online reviews, testimonials, and ratings on reputable sites to gauge the quality of service provided.

1. 1. Services Offered

Ensure the cleaning service offers the specific type of cleaning you require. Some companies specialize in particular areas, so it’s essential to find one that meets your needs.

1. 1. Pricing Structure

Understand the pricing structure, including any additional fees for specific services or materials. Some companies charge hourly rates, while others offer flat fees based on the size of the home.

1. 1. Insurance and Certifications

Check if the cleaning company is insured and bonded. This protects you in case of accidents or damage during the cleaning process.

1. 1. Flexibility and Availability

Consider the company’s flexibility in scheduling and whether they can accommodate your preferred cleaning times, especially if you need a recurring service.

1. 1. Communication and Trust

It’s essential to hire a cleaning service that communicates effectively and values customer service. Trust is crucial, as cleaners will be in your home, so choose a company that instills confidence.

Tips for Getting the Best Results

To ensure you get the best results from your house cleaning service, consider these tips:

1. 1. Be Clear About Expectations

Communicate your cleaning needs and expectations clearly during the initial consultation. Providing specific instructions will help the cleaning team focus on areas that matter most to you.

1. 1. Keep an Open Line of Communication

If you’re present during the cleaning, feel free to ask questions or make requests. Open communication helps the cleaners understand your preferences better.

1. 1. Maintain a Clutter-Free Space

While professional cleaners will tidy up, maintaining a relatively organized space can make their job easier and allow for more thorough cleaning.

1. 1. Provide Feedback

After the service, share your thoughts with the cleaning company. Positive feedback encourages good practices, while constructive criticism helps improve future services.

1. 1. Consider a Regular Cleaning Schedule

To maintain a clean home, consider setting up a regular cleaning schedule. This prevents dirt and clutter from accumulating, making each cleaning session more manageable.

Conclusion

House cleaners provide a valuable service that helps individuals maintain clean and organized homes. By understanding how house cleaners work, the types of services available, and the processes involved, clients can make informed decisions when hiring cleaning professionals. Whether you opt for regular cleaning, deep cleaning, or specialized services, investing in professional house cleaning can save time, reduce stress, and enhance your living environment. With the right approach and communication, you can enjoy a sparkling clean home without the hassle.

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Sorry, this article went out on Substack, but I forgot to post it on Nostr.

God has made many promises throughout history that are recorded in the Bible. Most of them took centuries, if not millennia to be fulfilled. The God of the Bible is outside of time, so He doesn’t look at time like we do, but His timing is just what it should be.

God never breaks His promises. He fulfills them in full and in all details, but not necessarily in the timing we desire. We’re going to go through some of God’s greatest promises and see what we can learn about God, ourselves, God’s character, and the future. Seeing what God has done should help us to trust God in all things.

Adam & Eve

God’s first promise was given to Adam and Eve after they sinned.

To Eve, He promised:

“I will greatly multiply\ Your pain in childbirth,\ In pain you will bring forth children;\ Yet your desire will be for your husband,\ And he will rule over you.” (Genesis 3:16)

This promised was fulfilled immediately and for all of the women after Eve.

To Adam, He promised:

“Cursed is the ground because of you;\ In toil you will eat of it\ All the days of your life.\ Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;\ And you will eat the plants of the field;\ By the sweat of your face\ You will eat bread,\ Till you return to the ground,\ Because from it you were taken;\ For you are dust,\ And to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3:17b-19)

This promise was also fulfilled immediately and in all men throughout history.

To the serpent (Satan), it was promised:

“Because you have done this,\ Cursed are you more than all cattle,\ And more than every beast of the field;\ On your belly you will go,\ And dust you will eat\ All the days of your life;\ And I will put enmity\ Between you and the woman,\ And between your seed and her seed;\ **He shall bruise you on the head,\ And you shall bruise him on the heel.” (Genesis 3:14b-15) {emphasis mine}

The initial curse on serpents was fulfilled immediately, but the ultimate curse/promise was partially fulfilled when Jesus died on the cross and will be fulfilled completely in the last battle (Armageddon) at the end of the age when Satan is cast into hell.

“You shall bruise him on the heel” refers to Satan working to have Jesus crucified. A bruised heel is not fatal and Jesus returned from the dead, conquering death and sin.

“He shall bruise you on the head.” A head wound is fatal. Jesus struck the initial blow when He rose from the dead conquering death and sin after paying the price for our sins. The final blow will be His last action on Earth before His believers move to the new heaven and new earth.

According to time calculations by Uscher using the genealogies, Adam and Eve were created about 4004 B.C. How long it took them to sin is not made clear, but what details we get suggests it was very soon after creation, so it took approximately 4,000 years to be partially fulfilled and will be at least another 2,000 years to be fully fulfilled.

But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. (2 Peter 3:8)

Since God is outside time, He doesn’t look at time as we do. We want things now. We don’t want to wait, but we need to understand that God’s timing is always perfect and we often learn from God in the waiting.

Next we will learn from someone who waited faithfully on God’s promises and never gave up, even when logic would say that God’s promises were impossible.

Abraham

God’s first promise to Abraham came when he was 75 years old.

“Go forth from your country,\ And from your relatives\ And from your father’s house,\ To the land which I will show you;\ And I will make you a great nation,\ And I will bless you,\ And make your name great;\ And so you shall be a blessing;\ And I will bless those who bless you,\ And the one who curses you I will curse.\ And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1b-3) {emphasis mine}

God told Abraham to leave his home and go to a land he did not know. What should have been Abraham’s golden years was the beginning of his wandering. Abraham trusted God and obeyed.

Abraham was promised that God would “make you [Abraham] a great nation.” Without faith in an all powerful God, this would have seemed impossible. Abraham was 75 years old and had no children. His wife, Sarah, was only 10 years younger. Both were past the age of having children. They were being told to leave their home and move to an unknown land inhabited by strange people. No betting person would believe this man would become the father of a great nation and definitely no one would think the whole world would be blessed through his family.

Abraham was led to the edge of Canaan (the future site of Israel) and once again God made a promise to Abraham:

“To your descendants I will give this land.” (Genesis 12:7b)

Abraham and Sarah had no children. They were blessed with flocks and servants, but it would have seemed unthinkable that they could conquer Canaan, drive out the nations living there, and father a new nation. Despite this, Abraham believed that God’s promises are true.

When did the land finally belong to the descendants of Abraham? I don’t know the exact number of years, but he was still about 25 years away from fathering Isaac. Then Isaac had to grow up and marry before fathering Jacob. Jacob had to grow up, worked many years to earn his wife Rachael before fathering his twelve sons, including Joseph. Joseph had to grow up and spend years in Egypt before being put in charge in Egypt. The Israelites were then in Egypt for about 400 years before being freed and exiting Egypt to go to the promised land. Because this generation rebelled, they were then forced to wander in the desert for more than 40 years. Looking at this, it was well beyond 500 years before Abraham’s descendants owned any of the land God promised Abraham other than a small burial plot.

Does this mean God was unfaithful? Of course not.

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)

At first Abraham and Sarah tried to fulfill God’s promise themselves. Sarah followed the local pagan way and gave her maid to her husband to father a child for them and Hagar gave birth to Ishmael when Abraham was 86 years old.

When Abraham was 99 years old God said,

“For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you. I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” (Genesis 17:5b-8) {emphasis mine}

God once again God promised the land to Abraham and also promised he would be “the father of a multitude of nations.” At last the promise of fathering nations seemed possible because of his son Ishmael, but owning the land of Canaan, in which he was a sojourner, living in a tent, seemed out of reach, but Abraham still did not fully understand God’s plan. God gave a new, more detailed promise to Abraham.

“As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” (Genesis 17:15b-16) {emphasis mine}

Abraham couldn’t believe that they could possible have a child of their own. He couldn’t comprehend him, at 100, and Sarah, at 90, producing a child of promise and instead of thanking God said, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You!” God corrected Abraham saying, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.” (Genesis 17:19-20)

Now becoming the father of a second son, even in his old age, Abraham began to see the fulfillment of God’s promises almost 25 years earlier.

Eventually, at the age of 100 Abraham had his promised son, Isaac, through whom the promise would be fulfilled.

When Sarah died, Abraham was able to buy the “cave of Machpelah” as a place to bury his wife. This was the first piece of soil that Abraham owned in the promised land and the only piece that he got to see, but God wasn’t done yet.

I always remember the son of promise, Isaac. When I stop and think, I remember that Abraham also had Ishmael. Until recently, although I had read this passage many times, I always forgot Abraham’s sons through Keturah.

Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. She bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. (Genesis 25:1-2)

God had promised Abraham, at the age of 75, that he would be the father of many nations. He seemed too old to become the father of even one son, but became the father of eight.

Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. The sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. Now Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac; but to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east. (Genesis 25:3-6)

All of these sons and their sons became the foundation of many nations throughout the Middle East and beyond just like God had promised, but this was only a partial fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham. Much more was yet to come.

Jacob

God’s promise to Abraham was passed down to Isaac and then to Isaac’s son Jacob (the younger twin). After Jacob betrayed his twin brother Esau, Rebekah sent Jacob to her family to find a wife. On the way, God made a promise directly to him.

“I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” (Genesis 28:13-15)

God once again promised the chosen heir the ownership of this land and that he would be returned to it. He also said, “Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth,” reiterating the Abrahamic covenant.

Through two wives and two concubines, that were maids to his two wives, Jacob fathered 12 sons who became the fathers of the 12 tribes of Israel. Although Jacob was returned to the promised land of Canaan after several decades with his mother’s family, he also did not get to see the complete fulfillment of God’s promise that they would be given the land. He saw that God was always with Him; he was returned to the land God had promised Him; but he did not get to see the vast descendants or how his family was a blessing to the whole world. God’s timing was not yet complete.

In Part 2 we will see more promises of God and see how God is faithful.

Trust Jesus.\ \ your sister in Christ,

Christy

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Table Of Content

• The Rise of River: A Game-Changer in the Bitcoin Space

• Factors Influencing Thiel's Decision

• Implications of Thiel's Investment

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Peter Thiel, the renowned venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal, has recently made headlines with his bold move of investing $35 million in a Bitcoin startup called River. Thiel's investment in the cryptocurrency industry has sparked curiosity and debate among investors and industry experts. In this article, we will explore the reasons behind Thiel's decision to back River and delve into the potential implications of this move for the Bitcoin ecosystem.

The Rise of River: A Game-Changer in the Bitcoin Space

Understanding River's Mission

River is a Bitcoin startup founded in 2019 with a mission to make Bitcoin more accessible and user-friendly. The company aims to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the world of cryptocurrencies by providing institutional-grade Bitcoin financial services. River offers a suite of tools and services designed to simplify the process of buying, selling, and storing Bitcoin for both individual and institutional investors.

Thiel's Confidence in River's Vision

Peter Thiel's investment in River is a testament to his confidence in the startup's vision and potential. Thiel has a track record of backing disruptive and innovative companies, and his support for River indicates his belief in the transformative power of Bitcoin. By investing a substantial amount of capital, Thiel is betting on River's ability to drive mainstream adoption of Bitcoin and revolutionize the way people interact with the digital currency.

Factors Influencing Thiel's Decision

Growing Institutional Interest in Bitcoin

One of the key factors influencing Thiel's decision to invest in River is the increasing institutional interest in Bitcoin. In recent years, major financial institutions, including banks and asset management firms, have started to embrace cryptocurrencies and recognize their potential as an investment asset. Thiel, known for his keen insights into emerging trends, likely sees the institutional adoption of Bitcoin as a significant catalyst for its future growth.

Addressing Bitcoin's Accessibility Challenges

Bitcoin's mainstream adoption has been hindered by various challenges, including its complexity and lack of user-friendly infrastructure. River aims to tackle these hurdles by providing a seamless and secure platform for buying, selling, and storing Bitcoin. Thiel's investment in River indicates his belief that the startup's innovative solutions can address these accessibility challenges and make Bitcoin more user-friendly for a broader audience.

Potential for Bitcoin's Price Appreciation

Thiel's investment in River may also be driven by his belief in the long-term potential for Bitcoin's price appreciation. As an early advocate of Bitcoin, Thiel has consistently expressed his bullish stance on the digital currency. By investing in a Bitcoin startup like River, Thiel is positioning himself to benefit from the potential growth of the cryptocurrency market as a whole.

Implications of Thiel's Investment

Boosting Confidence in the Bitcoin Ecosystem

Thiel's investment in River not only provides the startup with substantial funding but also boosts confidence in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem. Thiel's track record as a successful investor and his reputation in the financial industry lend credibility to the potential of Bitcoin as a disruptive force in the world of finance. His endorsement of River may encourage other investors and institutions to take a closer look at Bitcoin and its underlying technology.

Accelerating Mainstream Adoption

Thiel's investment in River has the potential to accelerate the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin. River's focus on user-friendly financial services can attract a wider audience of investors who were previously hesitant to enter the cryptocurrency space. By providing a seamless and secure platform, River can help overcome the barriers that have prevented mainstream adoption, ultimately driving more people to embrace Bitcoin as a viable investment option.

Fostering Innovation in the Bitcoin Industry

Thiel's investment in River also fuels innovation in the Bitcoin industry. The injection of capital enables River to expand its operations, hire top talent, and further develop its suite of services. This infusion of resources can have a ripple effect, inspiring other entrepreneurs and startups to enter the Bitcoin ecosystem with their own innovative solutions. Thiel's backing of River may spark a wave of creativity and competition, ultimately driving the industry forward.

Conclusion

Peter Thiel's $35 million investment in the Bitcoin startup River is a bold move that highlights his confidence in the future of Bitcoin and the potential of innovative companies within the cryptocurrency space. Thiel's investment not only supports River's mission to make Bitcoin more accessible but also boosts confidence in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem. By addressing Bitcoin's accessibility challenges, River has the potential to drive mainstream adoption and accelerate the growth of the cryptocurrency market. Thiel's backing of River also fosters innovation within the industry, inspiring other entrepreneurs to develop their own groundbreaking solutions. With Thiel's strategic investment, River is well-positioned to make a significant impact on the Bitcoin landscape and shape the future of digital finance.

FAQ

Who is Peter Thiel? Peter Thiel is a renowned venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal. He is known for his investments in disruptive and innovative companies.

What is River? River is a Bitcoin startup that aims to make Bitcoin more accessible and user-friendly by providing institutional-grade financial services for buying, selling, and storing Bitcoin.

Why did Peter Thiel invest in River? Peter Thiel invested in River because he believes in the startup's vision and potential to drive mainstream adoption of Bitcoin. He also sees the growing institutional interest in Bitcoin and the need to address its accessibility challenges.

What are the implications of Thiel's investment in River? Thiel's investment in River boosts confidence in the Bitcoin ecosystem, accelerates mainstream adoption, and fosters innovation within the industry.

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TheWholeGrain - #October2024

October is the month of Halloween and just like last year the gang wanted to show off their costumes! Bread was even excited to put on the costume this year. Can you believe it?

October also brought us a famous piece of cover art in the comic book industry while also showing us a possible logo for the "Bread Industry" in the world of Bread and Toast. The Bitcoin Art for this past month got to feature all three pieces of bread to show that Bitcoin works for everyone regardless of where they are, and we also got to show off what is obviously a very important political campaign logo for Toast.

The Bakery got to add the Bread and Toast logo to the collection with a new painting by The Bitcoin Painter. Please check out The Bitcoin Painter as this isn't the first time he has contributed to Bread and Toast, and we promise it will not be the last. He also created another art piece this past month of Bread, Toast, and End-Piece preparing for a quest.

Last of all, Bread and Toast went to it's first live event Nostr Valley on October 12th. The gang got to hand out some goodies and even made its first merchandise sales! Ten exclusive metal cut-outs in the shape of a slice of bread were sold at the event and NOSTR Badges were given out to those folks he bought them! Another badge was also given to folks who posted and shared a free exclusive print that was also given out to event attendees. All in all, Bread and Toast got to spread awareness of what they are up to with some fellow Nostriches, and we got to hear some kind feedback from those who are already following our adventures!

October Sunday Singles 2024-10-06 | Sunday Single 060 Roar https://i.nostr.build/Qp9CYnaGOuprxTQ1.png

2024-10-13 | Sunday Single 061 Ruff https://i.nostr.build/v2OsYHVmbyN84q9T.png

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When it comes to education and adoption, it's essential to focus on the foundation, which begins already with the youngsters and their mentors.

If you've already checked out the main page of our Geyser campaign explaining more about the overall mission of Bitcoin Junior Club + our goals, you might remember that organizing short events and meet-ups for kids is one of them.

For this particular point, we hadn’t planned to start this year due to limited funding and resources, but sometimes life has other plans. There was a gift from the stars we couldn’t ignore... 😮💫

Less than a month ago, we were given the opportunity to organize [a dedicated space for children and families at this year’s Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador.

• You can find more details on this in the links shared below(*).
• Huge thanks to the organizers, especially Kiki and Kemal, for their trust and a wonderful collaboration!

Here’s where it gets important, where your role may come in:

Both Adopting Bitcoin and the Bitcoin Junior Club are non-profit projects, built on strong values and integrity, which limits the potential for large-scale funding.

The entire Bitcoin Para Niños space and program are funded by our personal resources.

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✅ Our input also includes countless hours of non-paid preparation and work.

✅ Adopting Bitcoin has covered costs for renting the dedicated venue space, essential equipment, about 40% of our travel costs, one entry ticket to the conference.

✅ While we’ve received support from other projects through hands-on help during the event and donations of unique materials (THANK YOU EVERYONE), still Bitcoin Junior Club is self-funding many other necessary items (books, toys, stickers, decorations, printouts, and creative supplies)—all of which will be used for rewards, keepsakes, and the program itself.

✅ We’re also covering a significant portion of our travel expenses, including the rest of the flight for one person (Europe - El Salvador and back), extra luggage allowance, and accommodations.

This mission is powered by passion and the belief in a better tomorrow, one where sovereign generations lead the way. But passion alone doesn’t pay the bills, and the budget for this project (Bitcoin Junior Club especially now with its part at Bitcoin Para Niños) is coming straight from family savings, which we hope to replenish over time.

If you’d like to support our shared mission to inspire young minds with values like Bitcoin, freedom, creativity, and critical thinking, consider sending us some sats. Every amount counts.

Thank you 🧡 Bitcoin Junior Club

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1. "Bitcoin and El Salvador: Education, Adoption, Freedom!" —
2. https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com/ab2024-bitcoin-para-ninos-and-btc-junior-club-for-sovereign-generations/
3. "Empowering the Next Generation: AB2024 with Spotlight on Kids and Families" — https://bitcoinnews.com/press-release/bitcoin-para-ninos-adopting-bitcoin-2024/
4. DJ Valerie B LOVE Show — [LIVE] Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador - Kemal +Kiki + Sela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guvnKp_H6-U

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El Día Después ha terminado, y todo sigue igual. Se apagan los lamentos y llega la resignación. Toca trabajar duro y esperar a que venga la ayuda. Pasan los minutos, las horas, y no llega nada. Los políticos se esconden, alguno aparece ataviado con un equipo propio de la serie Top Gun, por supuesto, en el área menos afectada de la denominada ‘zona cero’. Hay que preservar la integridad de nuestros representantes, no vaya a ser que pillen un resfriado por ayudar a los damnificados. Un selfie y de vuelta al coche oficial. No se olvide a darle like, buen ciudadano, eso sí, cuando vuelva Internet, sin prisas.

Hay que seguir adelante, pero afloran los problemas, sobre todo en los pueblos. Allí reina la anarquía, son múltiples las disputas por una pieza de fruta, y esto es sinónimo de pelea. Muchos hacen acaparamiento y se aprovechan de la ayuda vecinal, son los de siempre, los okupas y los egoístas, los que antes actuaban así y mirábamos para otro lado, pero, tras el Día Después, ya no nos podemos permitir ese lujo. Otros se dan cuenta, ellos también quieren comer, y la desesperación entra en juego. Ahora gana el más fuerte, mera supervivencia, como en las películas y series pos-apocalípticas que usted veía tranquilamente por la noche en su casa. Las fuerzas del orden hacen lo que pueden con los pocos medios que tienen, la ‘zona cero’ exige triplicar esfuerzos, y a veces, no es suficiente. Cae la noche, y en algunos pueblos hay un toque de queda auto-impuesto, es hora de dejar la pala, se desmontan los puestos de recogida. Si el día es peligroso, imaginen pasadas las 20:00. Los robos y saqueos aumentan, quedan desvalijadas las farmacias, los supermercados, la mayoría por necesidad.

¿Y ahora qué? Es la hora de los iluminados, de aquellos que se disfrazaron para Halloween, mientras sigue aumentando el número de víctimas. <>, claman algunos. <>, afirman otros con rotundidad. Y ahí está la clave. De todo se aprende, y ahora se buscará la aclamación popular para que el Gobierno esté habilitado para una intervención exagerada e invasiva a costa de nuestros derechos. La inacción crea inseguridad, la inutilidad genera convencimiento y la maldad trae evidencia. Aprendamos de Valencia, de cómo fuimos abandonados. Distingan al lobo que se oculta tras la piel del cordero, pues ellos traerán a los vigilantes para acabar con los robos y los saqueos. Qué bien suena sobre el papel, pero, ¿confiarás tu seguridad en aquellos que generaron estos mismos problemas?, y sobre todo, ¿quién vigilará a los vigilantes?

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It’s our last day at the resort, and Sasha came down with chicken pox. She’s fine, but miserable, and as a result we’re leaving in an hour or so, so I had to watch the five-minute highlights version as I wait for the buffet to open to bring her some fruit.

Suffering kid aside, that game went perfectly for me. I had the Jets ATS in the picking pool — the Texans are smoke and mirrors now on offense, and the defense is only decent.

I also started Aaron Rodgers narrowly over C.J. Stroud and thank God for that. While I briefly considered Dalton Schultz at TE, I decided against it and stuck with Jonnu Smith. And I had Tank Dell in at WR who did his part. Basically after two horrific weeks, it was a perfect game as far as I was concerned and a great start to the week. My only regret is not using the Jets in the Circa contest.

• The Jets tree is the narrowest of all with only Davante Adams, Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall. There is no one else, and Malachi Corley surely won’t be joining that mix after fumbling for no reason on an easy TD.

• Joe Mixon produces whenever he’s healthy. The Texans like to run the ball and play conservatively, so he’s always heavily involved.

• Dell and Schultz were the only ones who got more than three targets. Robert Woods, John Metchie and Xavier Hutchinson were non-factors, and that’s even with Nico Collins still out.

• Stroud is playing under brutal conditions right now, and while Collins’ return should ease those somewhat, the offensive line problems and coaching is here to stay. I regret drafting him in two leagues — I don’t think the Texans will fix it this year.

• Rodgers’ line was nice, but heavily boosted by two tough TD grabs by Garrett Wilson. He’s lucky to have Wilson and Adams, but that offense is still not really in sync, either.

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Trump, Musk, CXDC and the Dept of Governmental Efficiency

This whole essay is an exposition on why I think it's possible that Donald Trump is one of the heads of the beast from the sea and Elon Musk is the beast who rises from the earth as is written and prophesied in Revelation chapter 13 of the Holy Bible New King James Version also alluding to the Koine Greek manuscript. If you are not interested in biblical exposition of scripture I do not blame you. Go look at the charts, see bitcoin number go up, go on polymarket and place a bet on Trumps election win, much more fun. I am not trying to convert anyone to Christianity because I don't care about your soul or the state of your personal relationship with god. I am writing this because I get a narcissistic pleasure from being right about things over and over and over again. I am writing this because I find it fun to point back in time and say, "I knew it." I am not trying to use bitcoin or science fiction stories as bait to trick anyone into reading bible verses and converting them to my supposed faith. In fact I get very annoyed with self righteous preacher types using tropes and gotcha moments to try and guilt trip people into saying a prayer and yippee ki yay, now you get to go to heaven with me. I find it retarded and very insulting to the actual meat and potatoes of what is a very deeply intelligently compiled and mysterious history book. So scrap all the preconceived notions you have about someone quoting bible verses and give me neutral territory as I try to expound on the abstract concepts contained within an ancient text.

Here goes...

My father was visiting us. I woke up early in the morning, laying in bed I habitually took my phone to check the news. I was met with a flurry of online commotion and frantic urgency. The internet was on fire with Donald Trump's assassination attempt. The news was a couple of hours fresh and already every conceivable conspiracy was permeating all the digital town squares. My father is always up early and I called to him "Someone tried to take out Donald Trump!" My dad turned on his laptop and started to follow the story which was a developing current event. No one had yet put together all the pieces. Still wearing my pyjamas I walked into the lounge where my dad was busy catching up with the news. Holding my phone I said to him "Elon Musk is going to endorse Donald Trump." He looked at me with a questioning look and asked me why I would say something like that. It was a totally irrelevant and weird thing to say considering the circumstances. I told him that I know of no other entity who can make fire come down from heaven in the sight of men. My dad thought I was being a bit nutty. To me it felt surreal.

Symbolism is always used in prophecy as a type of meme to condense complex systems often with abstract connotations into an archetype that can communicate the complex idea across time. This archetype allows the memetic symbolism to break through the obstacles of cultural jargon and evolution of language allowing the reader, to in his own time of being, find value or make sense of the text in spite of his modern world views. The books of Revelation and Daniel are especially difficult to understand and to sort the data into a quantifiable or practical structure is a pain. This is by design.

Daniel Chapter 12:4 (circa 530 BC Ancient Babylonia, modern Iraq.)

"But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.

Revelation Chapter 22:10 (95-96 AD Isle of Patmos, a small Greek island in the Aegean sea.)

"And he said to me, Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand."

Revelation and Daniel are keys that unlock and reference back and forth to each other across time but there is a third key which locks the books up leaving humanity always speculating and hypothesising until this third key gradually decrypts the occult of eschatological prophecy. This key is simply time. The chaos of nature and history is recorded by the predictable linearity of time condensing it into the ever present now. It was in that moment of time that the identity of Trump and Elon being figures of import in the annals of history, that realisation and the profundity of it made the moment so surreal to me.

I am going to quote the verses of Revelation Chapter 13 one at a time and give a running commentary of each as I do. There are 18 of them.

John is as a third person looking at the vision from the outside in. He also has a guide standing next to him explaining to him what he is witnessing. Almost like the architect explaining to Neo what is what in the TV screen room or like Morpheus trying to make known to Neo the situation in the real world in the white room using dramatic visual effects to convey his point. John was not in the real world's future but a symbolic projection of it. The Koine Greek differs somewhat to the King James I am also going to attempt a literal translation of phrases.

1: And stood (The Dragon)-stationed upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast rising up, having horns ten and heads seven, and upon the horns of it diadems ten, and upon the heads of it names of blasphemy -slander.

The Dragon is the infamous Satan. The serpent of old. In Greek the word satan translates literally to the word opponent. That is why Satan (the character) does not exist in the Hebrew old testament as satan the definition. In Revelation chapter 12 the woman id est Christianity is attacked by the dragon who is furious that his leverage in heaven has been neutralised and him banished/exiled from it. The dragon is on a rampage to destroy the woman and her offspring. Christianity as an ideology of self sacrifice in service of others is the target of the dragons wrath (this self sacrifice in service of others as primary ethos is the inevitable demise of the dragon as seen through the action and accomplishment of Jesus Christ and Satoshi Nakamoto) and he summons forth the beast from the sea to do his will on earth to the advantage of his wrath. In this case I am going to be ambiguous and say that the dragon is a creature of financial power. Not limited to a specific people or culture but to various groups of people across time who love money and worship it to the point of harming human life to gain more of it. The love of money being the root of all kinds of evil - Timothy 6:10. A so called principality of the air. An intangible enemy animated by the weakness of human greed and lust. This banking force has a Rothschild like proclivity to absorb power through control of wealth. Welcome to the stage - The Dragon! (Applause) The dragon being a force of wealth has no tangible power in and of itself, it's power has to transcend the abstraction of finance into kinetic, it has to summon more efficate abstractions that can channel kinetic energy to achieve it's goals primarily that of eternal incumbency. This beast summoned out of the sea is government. If the finance can control bullet/sword/arrow/bombs then the Dragon can control this oceanic summoned beast. This beast is a chimera of sorts and we will get to defining it in more detail. The sea is mostly a symbol for mankind, the beast is summoned from and compiled of the nations of earth.

2: And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and the feet of it as of a bear, and the mouth of it as a mouth of a lion. And gave to it the dragon the power of it and the throne of it and authority -right -privilege -freedom great.

Leopard: The leopard is often associated with agility, speed, and deadly force. In Daniel, the leopard represented the Greek Empire, known for its swift conquests under Alexander the Great. For the beast in Revelation, "like a leopard" suggests a similar capacity for rapid expansion or cunning.

Feet of a Bear: Bears are typically associated with strength and endurance. In Daniel 7, the bear represents the Medo-Persian Empire, known for its formidable military power. For the beast, "feet like those of a bear" symbolises an unstoppable or heavy force, capable of trampling or dominating.

Mouth of a Lion: A lion’s mouth represents authority, fearlessness, and perhaps fierceness in speech or command. In Daniel, the lion represented Babylon, an empire with significant authority and grandeur. For the beast in Revelation, a "mouth like a lion" suggests the beast’s capacity to speak with commanding authority and to blaspheme with boldness without being held to account.

This beast has expansionist and empiric type ambition. Let's call it England, no wait 1800's called and said don't blame me for NATO. Okay I concede, USA. The current year seat of power from where the beast bullies all into submission was gained through retaining it's control of finance through war. Be it gold, oil, or international trade, war or threat of it was the prima facie mechanism of enforcement. Babylonia in all it's glory for millennia through the rotations of power. This powerful beast bows only to one master, gold/finance. Even offering it's seat of power to the dragon. Government is physically capable of snubbing the dragon like the founding fathers snubbed England and it's royally decreed gold backed notes, the pound sterling (in the late 1700's). But the dragon is an insidious loathsome reptile, creeping and scheming, finding it's ways through the cracks of human fallibility. Enter the Federal Reserve and United States Treasury.

3: And one of the heads of it as having been slain -wounded to death -mortally, and the wound of the death -mortality of it was healed -cured. And marvelled -wondered the whole earth after the beast.

This is where Trump comes into the picture. As a head of state - head of the beast. The news with regard to his assassination attempt survival brought this verse to mind. I literally saw the entire chapter play out before my eyes as the implications became evident.

4: And they worshipped the dragon who gave the authority to the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying: “Who is like -similar to the beast, and who is able -capable to war -battle against it?”

The whole mainstream media worldwide, alternative media, you name it. Trump was a household discussion on all continents. The united states presidential race and the imminent collapse of the financial system was all brought into the limelight of civilisation. So according to this verse a lot of sabre rattling is about to take place on the geopolitical map as Trump's presidency becomes obvious. Other powers want to divide territory and quickly while a pathetic and moronic Biden is babbling geriatric nonsense from the oval office. The leadership of the world was way calmer when they thought Harris was going to take the presidency, as soon as they realised a strong charismatic leader was once again going to take the reigns in the most powerful seat of military might in the world they scrambled to place their pieces on the chess board so as to have some negotiation leverage when Trump comes to their table.

5: And was given to it a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies -slanders, and was given to it authority to act -work -perform forty-two months.

This alludes to the fact that leadership is rarely held to account for their words because there is no authority above them to hold them accountable. It is hard to stay humble in this position of power. The forty two month implies the active duty of a presidential term in the United States of America.

6: And it opened the mouth of it in blasphemies -slanders against God, to blaspheme -slander the name of Him and the tabernacle -dwelling -sanctuary of Him, those dwelling in heaven.

I cannot tell you how this will play out. Because I honestly do not know and when I try to speculate about it my mind comes up blank. As far as I am concerned America is supposed to be a Christian nation. Maybe the blasphemy is that America does what is heathen and repulsive while claiming to be Christian, I don't know. A religion of science and capitalism seems to have replaced Christianity as a dominant cultural ideology in the seat of Empire.

7: And was given to it to make war against the saints -holy ones, and to overcome -conquer them, and was given to it authority over every tribe and people and language -tongue and nation.

This war is a war of attrition and culture within itself. Politics has humiliated and defeated the power of noble Christian endeavour in the United States. Deuteronomy promises that the country has to be overrun by heathen nations as punishment for this failure. Just look at the border. Through dollar reserve currency dominance the whole world -tribe/people/language is held captive and beholden to the United states.

8: And will worship it all those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of the life of the Lamb -young sheep having been slain from the foundation of the world.

I do not pretend that everyone who supports the United States as a world power is evil. I don't believe it. But when the damage to life, liberty and property is violated so mercilessly by an Empire, those who harbour disgust and resentment and refuse to bow to it's ambition inevitably are crushed by it. Hating/resisting the dollar never made anyone rich. Until Jan 3rd 2009.

9: If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

If you know or don't know. Does not really matter, it is inevitable.

10: If anyone captivity into captivity he goes; if anyone with a sword kills, it is necessary him with a sword to be killed. Here is the endurance -steadfastness and the faith -belief of the saints -holy ones.

Basically it says to buy out the time, be peaceful and have hope. Bad shit is going to happen. Be content, aware and persevere.

11: And I saw another beast rising out of the earth, and it had horns two like a lamb -young sheep, and it spoke as a dragon.

This my friends, is Elon Musk. Born from free market capitalism with a healthy dose of socialist support. The banks and markets gave him his power. The financial institutions brought him forth. He is not a product of government. To the contrary, government has only inhibited his ability to achieve his goals.

12: And the authority of the first beast all it exercises before -in the presence of it, and it causes the earth and those dwelling in it that they will worship the first beast, whose wound of the death -mortality was healed.

Okay so this is where I came from when I told my dad that Elon was going to endorse Trump he literally endorsed him a couple of hours later on X. Now, as a student of history and having dabbled in eschatology as a hobby for many nihilistic and depressing years. Never before has my assumed prediction come true the next day. But in hindsight it's obvious, I mean who would not endorse Trump. Mark Zuckerface endorsed Trump, right? Elon went the full Monty jumping around on stage chanting USA! Endorsing Trump so hard Trump had to get out of the way. Elon is endorsing Trump so hard Trump could go home. Elon will run the campaign for him, without him. It is amazing to see.

13: And it does great signs -wonders, so that also fire it should make to come down out of heaven to the earth before men -humans.

Now let's put a cherry on this cake. This is the verse that so effortlessly popped into my head as I was looking at the imagery of blood splattered on Trumps face. Pumping his fist into the air. I said. "Elon Musk is going to endorse Donald Trump." He looked at me with a questioning look and asked me why I would say something like that. It was a totally irrelevant and weird thing to say considering the circumstances. I told him that I know of no other entity who can make fire come down from heaven in the sight of men." A couple of months later the super heavy booster gets caught by Mechazilla's chopsticks and the whole world marvelled again. I was so deep into uncanny valley I was Alice falling and falling. In 2017 some prophecies surrounding Revelations chapter 12 became fulfilled and it was meaningful to me. I enjoyed seeing a 2000 year old text consummate a relationship with reality. This was not the same. This was like bam! bam! You want some prophetic fulfillment, do you punk? Bam!

14: And it deceives those dwelling upon the earth through the signs -wonders which it was given to it to do before the beast, telling those dwelling upon the earth to make an image to the beast which has the wound of the sword and has lived -survived.

Okay so now I am back to speculation. Here I am writing this in the now. I have the past behind us. We now look forward into tomorrow. Remember - This is speculation on my part. Elon Musk establishes the department of governmental efficiency. It is a fun app connecting you directly to the upper echelons of governance. Cutting out the bureaucrats and middlemen. This D.O.G.E. makes everything much more convenient and efficient centralising and distributing the functions of government, reducing costs dramatically but also manages to audit and census the populace in real time. The citizens get Grocked by Grock if you will.

15: And it was given to it to give breath -spirit -life to the image of the beast, that also should speak the image of the beast and should cause -make -effect that as many as would not worship the image of the beast would be killed -put to death.

His simulacra of government becomes integrated with AI to the extent that you pledge allegiance to the app of the United States of America. Government becomes you constant companion, search engine, personal assistant. You think FBI exercise apps are creepy. Wait until government bucks you up when you have a down day.

16: And it causes all, the small and the great and the rich and the poor and the free and the slaves, that they should give to them a mark upon the hand of them the right or upon the forehead of them,

Is this simply a phone with an app in your hand. Right hand just suggesting most people are right handed? And does it suggest that the especially devout go get a Neuralink? I dunno.

17: and that no one would be able -capable to buy or to sell, except the one having the mark, the name of the beast or the number of the name of it.

He integrates the dollar and the use of it into X and all avenues of trade and commerce is conveniently migrated onto Starlink as infrastructure. The CXDC instead of a CBDC.

18: Here is the wisdom. The one having understanding, let him calculate -count the number of the beast; for a man’s number it is, and the number of it six hundred sixty-six.

In Gollums voice:

I know what it is. It's probably in your pocketses right now, your precious.

No, no, no, it cannot be my love.

Oh but it is precious, it is.

I know, I know, I hates it, I hates it.

We must serve the precious. The one dollar bill. Lol.

Post Script:

I don't think Elon Musk and Donald Trump are evil. I think they are cool dudes driven by very normal and natural incentives given their position and accomplishments. Just as Trump is about to once again be the head of the great statue that Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream so too was Nebuchadnezzar just a dude doing his thing in his time and position. I have no hate for them, in fact I enjoy seeing them do their thing, it is impressive, entertaining and cool as hell. No pun intended.

I don't fear an apocalyptic future because I have made myself impervious to it by buying and holding Bitcoin. I don't give a fuck because I am possessed by the spirit of the honey badger and the cyber hornet. Which reminds me. Bitcoin is the promised land in cyberspace. But Bitcoiners should stay humble because nothing you did compares to what you got through no effort of your own. You owe your thanks to Satoshi and all the developers who made self custody possible and continue to build a world which maximises freedom, prosperity and personal responsibility.

Joshua 24:12-15

'I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two kings of the Amorites, but not with your sword or with your bow. I have given you a land for which you did not labour, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.' Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River/Rubicon, and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

Gotcha.

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Después de escribir mi primer artículo en este blog me di cuenta (o mejor dicho, me hicieron darme cuenta) de que, si voy a escribir para no-coiners (término afectivo para referirme a quienes no poseen ni un Satoshi ni ninguna shitcoin), tengo que empezar por el principio. Antes de contarles lo difícil o lo ameno que puede ser su viaje en la red de Bitcoin, necesito contarles al menos qué carajo es, o por qué lo necesitan en sus vidas. Porque claro, este sitio donde escribo funciona con nostr, y tanto quienes escribimos aquí como la mayoría de quienes nos leen somos bitcoiners. Muchos estamos orientados a la tecnología o la criptografía, y todos nosotros hablamos de Bitcoin y su "magia"; nos entendemos entre nosotros y rara vez volvemos a las bases o nos tomamos el tiempo de explicar por qué el mundo necesita Bitcoin y, sobre todo, por qué cada individuo debería tener sus propias llaves. Solemos decir frases hechas como “not your keys, not your Bitcoin”, “have fun staying poor” o la famosa cita del mismísimo Satoshi: “Si no me crees o no lo entiendes, no tengo tiempo para tratar de convencerte, lo siento”.

Satoshi (una persona o grupo de personas) publicó un documento de 9 páginas con el objetivo de crear un sistema de pagos entre personas, sin intermediarios de confianza. Una red P2P (peer-to-peer) o, en español, una red de pares. A diferencia de una red convencional, donde un servidor central controla la información y varios usuarios acceden a él, en una red de pares todos los nodos son iguales, y todos los nodos de Bitcoin guardan la misma información. En el white paper, Satoshi explicó en detalle cómo funcionaría la red y, unos meses después, lanzó oficialmente Bitcoin. Saltando 15 años de historia para tener material para futuros artículos (y también para evitar que te duermas leyendo), llegamos al presente: la red de pagos sin intermediarios es un éxito rotundo.

Resulta que yo no soy Satoshi, pero voy a tratar de convencerte, y hoy sí tengo tiempo para hacerlo.

Un día como hoy se publicó el white paper de Bitcoin. Te recomiendo que, ahora mismo o al terminar de leer esto, le des una mirada. Puede que lo entiendas completamente o que no lo comprendas del todo, pero es necesario que lo intentes. Este "papelito" hermoso cambió la historia.

Ya hablaremos del cómo, pero lo importante es que funciona. Por primera vez en la historia, se ha logrado construir un dinero 100 % digital, que no depende de bancos ni de gobiernos, ni de empresas o personas individuales. Depende únicamente de la red y de las reglas pactadas hace 15 años, que son inamovibles: están escritas en piedra y reforzadas por miles de nodos individuales alrededor del mundo. Es la red más robusta del planeta y cada día crece más en usuarios, nodos y mineros. Bitcoin puede usarse para una infinidad de cosas: desde el propio dinero P2P que Satoshi proponía, hasta aplicaciones mucho más avanzadas, como la verificación de la transparencia en elecciones. Y, por si no ha quedado claro, repito: estamos ante la red más robusta del mundo. No criticaré a las altcoins en este artículo porque no es la intención, pero sepan que la red de Bitcoin deja obsoletas a todas las demás. Todo lo que hacen las altcoins puede hacerse en Bitcoin: más rápido, más barato y, sobre todo, más seguro. Entraremos en detalles de esto en otros artículos.

Volviendo a la pregunta inicial: ¿por qué quiero Bitcoin?

Ahora ya sabemos que Bitcoin es la moneda de la red más segura del mundo y no depende de nadie. Pero por qué querés elegir una moneda que se respalda en una red y un protocolo y no en un gobierno? Puede que nunca te hayan confiscado los ahorros en un corralito, como en Argentina en 2001, o que nunca hayas experimentado la inflación desenfrenada como en Venezuela. Quizás no te importa que millones de personas no tengan acceso a una cuenta bancaria porque para vos los bancos son algo obvio y normal. Puede que estés viviendo con “privilegios financieros” y no te hayas dado cuenta... todavía. Bitcoin, al ser un dinero sin intermediarios ni custodios, y al no depender de ningún gobierno ni banco, puede ser almacenado por el usuario, quien es el único propietario de sus Bitcoin. Es inconfiscable, de ahí la importancia de la custodia y las llaves privadas. Además, la oferta total de Bitcoin en circulación es de 21,000,000 de unidades. Ni una más, ni una menos. Nadie, por más poder o influencia que tenga, puede imprimir más Bitcoin, ni inflacionarlo, ni devaluar tus ahorros. Por si fuera poco, Bitcoin es libre de censura: un cubano puede transferir Bitcoin a un argentino, o viceversa, sin importar las restricciones de capital en sus países. No se puede censurar una transacción de Bitcoin. Entonces, la respuesta corta a la pregunta es la siguiente:
Necesitás Bitcoin para protegerte de la inflación, de las restricciones de capitales y de los problemas bancarios. Y si estás pensando “para eso compro dólares, van abajo del colchón y listo”, te recomiendo que lo reconsideres, pero con este dato en mente: desde su creación hasta hoy, el dólar ha perdido más del 98 % de su poder adquisitivo. Mientras tanto, desde su creación hasta hoy, Bitcoin ha pasado de valer cero a ser una red de más de one trillion dollar. Quizás para ir ahorrando para el futuro sea mejor guargar Bitcoin que guardar Dólares. Mientras el dólar se fue desangrando año a año en cuanto a poder adquisitivo, Bitcoin ha pasado de no existir a ser comprado por individuos con alto patrimonio, fondos de inversión, empresas y hasta algunos países. ¿Todos están comprando Bitcoin menos vos?

Si llegaste hasta acá y no te dió FOMO (miedo de quedarte fuera) el saber que todos compran menos vos, si no pensás que necesitás un sistema monetario libre de restricciones, inflación y estado, si no pensás que es necesario un dinero libre y un individuo soberano o bien pensás que tus dólares están tranquilos y seguros en el banco bueno, entonces si, HAVE FUN STAYING POOR. Si entendiste todo esto pero aún no logré convencerte de que Bitcoin es la única solución podés leer más articulos míos o de otros autores aquí dentro de habla.news y vas a encontrar muchísima información valiosa. Y no te olvides de leer el White Paper!

Gracias por llegar hasta aquí. Ojalá te sea útil. En mi próximo artículo hablaré sobre las diferencias entre comprar acciones, bonos o cualquier inversión tradicional y comprar Bitcoin. Spoiler: todas las acciones valdrán cerca de cero en términos de Bitcoin en 50 años.

Saludos,

El Tío.

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Lightning Node Issues

My nodes been down for a couple of days since I switched routers. It seems like they it connect to the internet, so my lightning node is down. I don't have much on the thing, but I really enjoyed using Albyhub, the budgeted NWC, and having zaps sent directly to my node. I'll get it working eventually; I probably need to look into Start9 customer support, which costs $100 but probably worth every satoshi.

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Exploring E-Cash

I've switched my lightning address to hustle@npub.cash and have started checking out the e-cash stuff more closely. I should probably be using Minibits, but I'm gravitating towards the Cashu.me and Npub.cash combo. I like the idea of logging into a wallet with my extension or signer and seeing my Nostr profile and e-cash. Cashu.me also has NWC functionality (which I haven't tried yet, but look forward to).

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Creating a Run Tracker: RunWild

I've been tinkering with making a run tracker for Nostr called RunWild. I'll play around with it myself a lot before shouting it out to freedomland.

RunWild Features: - Released on zap.store only - Sign in with Amber - NIP60/61 support for the e-cash attached to your Npub - Runstr Chatroom: Similar to Fountains' #tunestr chatroom - Run Controls: Start run/Pause run/Stop run/Run History/Post run to Nostr - Wavlake Support: See and play your Wavlake playlists from the app

Future Plans: - Achievements and Goals - Running groups with Nostr freaks - Competitions and challenges with Nostr freaks - Merch on Shopstr - Sponsored Workout Tracks - E-cash Rewards: E-cash zap and a shoutout after your run - Nostr Badges - Zaps

I'll probably limit the app to 100 users for a long time and give them e-cash as a way to reward them for testing the app and building a community feel. It makes sense to throw a territory fee amount of sats at them. I mainly want to stop using the Nike run app and use a run tracker that I can log into with Nostr and listen to Wavlake stuff while running. It'll be cool if the app catches on, but if not, it'll be a personal freedom tech tool that me and my wife use.

It would be cool to create a new event kind for the runs that I track, so that when someone comes out with a better app than mine, my runs will appear on theirs. This might be how I win.

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Closing Rambles

I saw Pablo come out with an e-cash project today called Honeypot. It has a button stretching across the bottom of the screen that says "I'm ready to lose some money" (with an exclamation mark), and contains language like #reckless and "Aaaaand money gone." I quoted the note saying "I'm ready, where do I sign up?"............. Tinkering is often the antithesis of smooth sailing, and even though my node may be down, and I'm scrambling for e-cash wallets like a pre-coiner scrambling for exchange yield, I'm still excited and motivated to use and build. Maybe running through the shifting terrain is half the fun.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/749200

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Table Of Content

• Who is Paul Tudor Jones?

• The Rise of Bitcoin

• Why Bitcoin?

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin has been a hot topic in the financial world, attracting both enthusiasts and skeptics. One prominent figure who has shown unwavering confidence in Bitcoin is billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones. With his vast experience and expertise in the financial markets, Jones has been a vocal advocate for Bitcoin, citing it as the ultimate game-changer. In this article, we explore the reasons behind Jones' belief in Bitcoin and how it has the potential to revolutionize the financial landscape.

Who is Paul Tudor Jones?

Before delving into why Jones believes Bitcoin is a game-changer, it's important to understand who he is. Paul Tudor Jones is a billionaire investor, philanthropist, and founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation. He gained prominence in the 1980s for predicting the stock market crash of 1987, earning him the nickname "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England." Jones has built a successful career by making shrewd investment decisions, and his track record speaks for itself.

The Rise of Bitcoin

Bitcoin, introduced by an anonymous person or group known as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, is a decentralized digital currency that operates on a peer-to-peer network. It gained significant attention in the last decade, and its value skyrocketed, attracting the interest of investors worldwide. Bitcoin is based on blockchain technology, which ensures transparency, security, and immutability of transactions. The decentralized nature of Bitcoin, free from government regulations and intermediaries, has been both its strength and its source of skepticism.

Why Bitcoin?

Volatility and Inflation Hedge

One of the primary reasons why Jones believes Bitcoin is the ultimate game-changer is its potential as a hedge against inflation. Traditional fiat currencies are subject to inflationary pressures, reducing their purchasing power over time. Jones sees Bitcoin as a viable alternative that can protect investors' wealth from the erosion caused by inflation. Moreover, Bitcoin's limited supply, capped at 21 million coins, ensures scarcity and potentially drives its value higher.

Store of Value

Another aspect that appeals to Jones is Bitcoin's ability to serve as a store of value. Historically, precious metals like gold have been considered reliable stores of value. However, Jones argues that Bitcoin possesses similar qualities to gold and can even surpass it. He sees Bitcoin as a digital store of value that can act as a hedge against economic uncertainties and geopolitical risks.

Digital Gold

Jones has famously compared Bitcoin to gold, stating that Bitcoin will be the "fastest horse" in the race against inflation. He believes that Bitcoin's advantages, such as portability, divisibility, and ease of storage, make it superior to traditional gold. While gold has been a trusted store of value for centuries, Jones sees the potential for Bitcoin to become the preferred choice for investors seeking a safe haven asset.

Technological Innovation

Beyond its monetary properties, Jones recognizes the underlying technology behind Bitcoin, known as blockchain, as a groundbreaking innovation. Blockchain technology enables secure and transparent transactions without the need for intermediaries, revolutionizing industries beyond finance. The potential applications of blockchain are vast, ranging from supply chain management to decentralized governance systems. Jones understands the transformative power of this technology and believes Bitcoin is just the tip of the iceberg.

Portfolio Diversification

Jones advises investors to include Bitcoin in their portfolios as a means of diversification. He views Bitcoin as an asset class that offers unique properties not found in traditional investments. By adding Bitcoin to their investment mix, investors can potentially mitigate risk and enhance their overall returns.

Conclusion

Paul Tudor Jones' belief in Bitcoin as the ultimate game-changer stems from its potential as an inflation hedge, store of value, and technological innovation. His insights and endorsement have brought mainstream attention to Bitcoin, further solidifying its position as a significant asset class. While the future of Bitcoin remains uncertain, Jones' perspective sheds light on the transformative power of this digital currency and its underlying technology. Whether or not Bitcoin lives up to Jones' expectations, its impact on the financial world cannot be ignored.

FAQ

What made Paul Tudor Jones interested in Bitcoin? Paul Tudor Jones became interested in Bitcoin due to its potential as a hedge against inflation and its similarities to gold as a store of value.

Is Paul Tudor Jones the only billionaire who believes in Bitcoin? No, Paul Tudor Jones is not the only billionaire who believes in Bitcoin. Other prominent figures like Elon Musk and Michael Saylor have also shown support for Bitcoin.

How does Bitcoin protect against inflation? Bitcoin's limited supply and decentralized nature make it resistant to inflationary pressures that affect traditional fiat currencies.

Can Bitcoin replace traditional fiat currencies? While it's unlikely that Bitcoin will completely replace traditional currencies, it has the potential to coexist and provide an alternative form of value storage and transaction medium.

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By MIT Brickman

We win, that’s what now.

Between Governor Jerry Brown signing the controversial tobacco bills into law in California – which opens vaping up to unsustainable regulation, criticism, and taxation in the most vape-active state in the country – and the FDA injecting a slow-acting but definitely fatal poison directly into the jugular of the nation’s vaping industry, it seems that we may have lost the battle to ensure longer lives and better health for millions of cigarette smokers.

If I can interrupt your wailing and gnashing of teeth for a moment, I beg you to consider a different perspective. It’ll be worth it. What I see in the middle of this platter of steaming garbage (that has been served up on both the state and federal levels) is a big, glittering diamond. We have been given a gift.

In making no concessions to the vaping industry, and subsequently raising a tall middle finger to the citizens of this great country who have found improved health, happiness, and quality of life by moving from cigarettes to vaping, the government has guaranteed two things.

One. That the adults will now take over the vapor industry. Millennials, hobbyists, hipsters, and high school kids trying to push the 300 watt barrier just don’t have the intestinal fortitude for what’s coming. Many shops will close, convention centers will sit empty, vape trick competitions will disappear, and there will be the odd hissing sound of wringing hands coming from parents’ basements nationwide. The end of the current vaping industry is at hand. But if you read my post here – then you already know that it’s not a bad thing.

I worked for many years in the air medical industry; those brave folks who fly critically ill and injured people on helicopters. And I can tell you that the only industry more heavily regulated than healthcare is aviation. So why not mix them together and see what happens! I’ll tell you what happens – it becomes a constant (daily) struggle between governmental intrusion (usually fueled by ignorance and/or greed) and trying to make enough money to keep flying. You talk about protracted PR and lobbying battles – the e-cigarette and vaping world actually has had it easy. Well, until now.

So why do people in air medical keep getting up every day and fighting – after all, you can make significantly more money in numerous other industries? Because it’s the right thing to do. Human lives matter and fighting against bureaucracy to keep people alive and with their families is a damn compelling mission.

But it takes adults who can play the game. And I can tell you, those folks only show up when there is a compelling mission endangered by inappropriate, ignorant, and destructive resistance (sound like anything else you know?).

Truly successful people relish ‘unwinnable’ challenges, especially when the outcome is ultimately beneficial to humanity. And two. The eighty-five plus percent of Americans fatigued by continuous governmental intrusion are now primed to come around. Start pushing the messages that I recommended here and hammer the social proof of the benefits associated with vaping over cigarette smoking, and you will find exponential traction in the critical public arena.

If you are depressed or defeated over the massive anti-vaping developments in these past couple of days, I’d suggest you either get over it quickly or get out of the way. The people who are going to win this fight for the benefit of public health worldwide are about to step up, and this is going to get ugly, frustrating, expensive, and amazing from this point on.

In conclusion I will go back to what I said in part 1:

There is good news though. Great news, in fact. Victor Hugo once wrote, On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées – commonly paraphrased as no one can resist an idea whose time has come. No government, no politician, and no industry. It just got real.

https://mitbrickman.com/2016/05/05/rise-of-the-adults-in-vaping/

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tobacco harm reduction (THR) is a public health strategy to lower the health risks associated with using nicotine, as an example of the concept of harm reduction, a strategy for dealing with the abuse of other drugs. Smoking tobacco is widely acknowledged as a leading cause of illness and death.[1] However, nicotine itself is not very harmful, as inferred from the long history of use for nicotine replacement therapy products.[2] Thus, THR measures have been focused on reducing or eliminating the use of combustible tobacco by switching to other nicotine products, including:

Cutting down (either long-term or before quitting smoking) Temporary abstinence Switching to non-tobacco nicotine containing products, such as pharmaceutical nicotine replacement therapies or currently (generally) unlicensed products such as electronic cigarettes Switching to smokeless tobacco products such as Swedish snus Switching to non-combustible organic or additive-free tobacco products It is widely acknowledged that discontinuation of all tobacco products confers the greatest lowering of risk. However, approved smoking cessation methods have a 90% failure rate, when used as directed.[1] In addition, there is a considerable population of smokers who are unable or unwilling to achieve abstinence.[3] Harm reduction is likely of substantial benefit to these smokers and public health.[1][2] Providing reduced-harm alternatives to smokers is likely to result in lower total population risk than pursuing abstinence-only policies.[4]

The strategy is controversial: proponents of tobacco harm reduction assert that lessening the health risk for the individual user is worthwhile and manifests over the population in fewer tobacco-related illnesses and deaths.[3][5] Opponents have argued that some aspects of harm reduction interfere with cessation and abstinence and might increase initiation.[6][7] However, surveys carried from 2013 to 2015 in the UK[8] and France [9] suggest that on the contrary, the availability of safer alternatives to smoking is associated with decreased smoking prevalence and increased smoking cessation.

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Nitzkin, J (June 2014). “The Case in Favor of E-Cigarettes for Tobacco Harm Reduction”. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 11 (6): 6459–71.doi:10.3390/ijerph110606459. PMC 4078589. PMID 25003176. A carefully structured Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) initiative, with e-cigarettes as a prominent THR modality, added to current tobacco control programming, is the most feasible policy option likely to substantially reduce tobacco-attributable illness and death in the United States over the next 20 years. Fagerström, KO, Bridgman, K (March 2014). “Tobacco harm reduction: The need for new products that can compete with cigarettes”.Addictive Behaviors. 39 (3): 507–511. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.11.002. PMID 24290207. The need for more appealing, licensed nicotine products capable of competing with cigarettes sensorially, pharmacologically and behaviourally is considered by many to be the way forward. Rodu, Brad; Godshall, William T. (2006). “Tobacco harm reduction: An alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers”. Harm Reduction Journal. 3: 37. doi:10.1186/1477-7517-3-37. PMC 1779270. PMID 17184539. Phillips, CV (November 2009). “Debunking the claim that abstinence is usually healthier for smokers than switching to a low-risk alternative, and other observations about anti-tobacco-harm-reduction arguments”. Harm Reduct. J. 6: 29. doi:10.1186/1477-7517-6-29. PMC 2776004.PMID 19887003. Hiding THR from smokers, waiting for them to decide to quit entirely or waiting for a new anti-smoking magic bullet, causes the deaths of more smokers every month than a lifetime using low-risk nicotine products ever could. “Harm reduction in nicotine addiction: Helping people who can’t quit” (PDF). Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians. October 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2012. Sumner W, 2005. Permissive nicotine regulation as a complement to traditional tobacco control” BMC Public Health 5:18. Tomar, SL; Fox, BJ; Severson, HH (2009). “Is smokeless tobacco use an appropriate public health strategy for reducing societal harm from cigarette smoking?”. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 6: 10–24. doi:10.3390/ijerph6010010. Action on Smoking and Health, May 2016, Use of electronic cigarettes (vapourisers) among adults in Great Britain http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_891.pdf Résultats de l’enquête cigarette électronique ETINCEL – OFDT, 2014 –

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In my old school oversized spiral bound sketchbook with heavy-weight paper, I spend time off-screen writing with a 0.9 mm Pentel mechanical pencil customized with BB soft lead, where I regularly set and track my periodic goals, life planning, and project conception sketches. My longtime project Architect on my studio team calls this sketchbook the Money Maker. On March 3, 2024, the note at the top of the page read, "Have you bought your Bitcoin today? $72,994".As a Spring Semester BTC class of 2021, I loved to buy some BTC at the top. Thinking about a remedy for this “talent” what followed on the sketchbook were some ideas for shifting money flowing through my business, BTC, every two weeks.

I now had options.

Starting in 2024, I had new options to design my personal business strategy after we reworked our partnership agreement for our established professional architecture firm with the help of our attorney and tax account the year before to mitigate the problems of 50/50 ownership.

The business is established and is a survivor of the dot com crash, 9/11, the 3 years after the crash. We have established clients and make a modest profit, and we enjoy focusing on them to get architecture built for them. Through the grind, we stayed ahead but did not thrive.

We changed our corporate structure to retain our original S-Corp status, which allowed us to pay direct and indirect expenses. My partner and I then transitioned to operating as two separate LLCs, each managing one of our studio tribes. We've also planned for future studios to bring in new disciplines or incubate more experienced staff

who can sell enough architecture to support a studio of their own. To manage our studio profit, we have an operating agreement that allocates 30% of our cash-based studio profit to the firm, with the remaining 70% distributed to the individual studios. The architecture firm pays us its monthly management fee directly into our LLC bank accounts. Once the payment is transferred, we have the flexibility to decide how we're paid by our LLC. From that account, I manage our W2 income through a payroll company and allocate the remaining funds as a distribution among tax savings, studio equity and personal spending.

The result = is a little more autonomy to design the best way to retain the profit from energy spent in my business life.

Capturing the flow

In my Money Maker sketchbook, I brainstormed ideas for both personal and business, seeking to think creatively about leveraging our new entity to capture new cash flow opportunities that I could invest in Bitcoin (BTC). By setting up our LLC business account, I could now organize our equity to let it grow without having to convert our profit to BTC immediately, thereby avoiding capital gains or W2 income taxes. My 2024 strategy consisted of three initial moves, which I will elaborate on in more detail after six months of operation.

Treasury

I set up a business account for my studio's corporate treasury with Unchained Capital, utilizing the new EIN for our management LLC. I had previously retained studio profit from the previous year, anticipating the benefits of the new entity. This process was very satisfying, as I was able to transfer our equity into a business account, eƯectively moving it out of the bank and I can see the scoreboard of the growing equity. However, one of the less enjoyable aspects was that my bank couldn't wire directly to Unchained, requiring me to visit a bank, which involved driving to these empty buildings and filling out some paperwork during the hours they happened to be open. After you have jumped through the flaming hoops and moved your fiat into BTC at Unchained, I don't like the lack of control about when Unchained buys BTC. Although, I do like that I don't have to use an intermediary exchange.

Tax Savings

I pay myself a reasonable W2 income using a Payroll service, and then allocate the remainder of my monthly take-home pay as a distribution. Since the payment is a distribution, I must set aside a percentage of my income taxes. Previously, I would simply transfer money to a Tax Savings bank account. With the new system, I can set up a business account in the name of my LLC at River, and automatically transfer funds from my LLC bank account to the River business account on a monthly basis. This setup allows for a DCA (dollar cost average) strategy with 0 cost. My strategy is to continue buying Bitcoin for next year's taxes. I understand that River will be oƯering business accounts with a 3.8% interest rate, paid in Bitcoin. When the subsequent bear market returns, I will make an educated guess about the ratio of interest-bearing assets to BTC tax savings account to ensure I'm prepared when paying taxes on profit made in a bull year that is taxed in a bear year.

Personal Spending

The move involved switching my monthly spending budget to Fold, which allowed me to earn Bitcoin rewards. I started using Fold at the end of 2022 to earn BTC rewards for my spending. Although Fold isn't as exciting as it used to be (I miss the gamification aspect of spinning up 5,000 Sats for a coƯee purchase!), the math still works out, and I can accumulate a few bucks with my personal spending. A further evolution came from listening to Jack Mallers on Episode 245 of The Bitcoin Standard Podcast. Jack was talking about how he lives on a Bitcoin Standard by paying bills with Strike, a service he can access now, but customers don't. As I thought about how cool it would be to keep my monthly expenses in BTC, a metaphorical 2 x 4 struck my brain. Wait a second - I realized that I can buy Bitcoin on Fold and easily exchange it for fiat in the application. I could start living like Jack, starting this month. With this month's spending money transfer to Fold, I bought Bitcoin! As the month goes on, I convert funds as I need them and use my debit card for expenses. Thank you, Jack, for the thought. I'm sorry to be so slow.

With our personal W2 and distribution side organized, we are now working to create ways to capture a portion of our business income cash flow in Bitcoin (BTC). Accepting BTC payments

As an established business with a shared and overworked bookkeeper, I believe the personnel and accounting workaround to dip our toe into Bitcoin is to accept pre-project consultation and initial payments using Zaprite initially. This will allow us to educate our clients on the benefits of using Strike and Bitcoin for payments, and to showcase how the process is more trustless than traditional payment methods like ACH and credit cards. By doing so, we can encourage clients to adopt this new payment method and reduce our reliance on traditional payment systems. Our goal is to make the transition to Bitcoin as seamless as possible for our clients, while also allowing our internal staƯ to become proficient in handling the process. To achieve this, we will be using the discount strategy on Zaprite invoices and will be directing our limited cash flow of BTC directly into our business treasury account. Status: we have set up the Zaprite integration but have not yet received payment.

BTC payment client education

Once our payment strategy is in place, I plan to update our website with a blog that explains how the payment system works and markets our approach to clients. Specifically, I want to highlight that we accept Bitcoin as a payment method and provide clients with the option to choose this payment option on the first invoice they receive from us. By doing so, I hope to spark interest and enthusiasm among clients who are familiar with the benefits of using Bitcoin and want to learn more. With our payment system up and running, we can begin to make a more significant transition away from traditional fiat payment methods and towards a more decentralized, trustless payment system like Bitcoin. This will be a "Titanic like" shift, but one that we believe is necessary to stay ahead of the curve and capitalize on the growing demand for more innovative and secure payment methods.

Beyond implementing a payment system

I am considering setting up a new studio that operates on a Bitcoin Standard (BTS). This idea combines concepts from other readings, such as value pricing and the principles outlined in "Winning Without Pitching" by Jeffrey Gitomer, with the idea of creating a branded house configuration of services that we can offer through the new studio. To research and develop our service product, I plan to use my existing studio's BTC equity and not debt. I will then create a focused website to highlight the new service product. To support the new studio, I will utilize my existing studio staff on projects, as part of their unitization. I also plan to offer sweat equity profit sharing to interested staff who will contribute to the bootstrapped research and development of the service product. I will work with a separate bookkeeping group to report results to our umbrella company. One of the key goals of this experiment is to track the diƯerence in administration costs between the new studio and our existing operations. This will provide valuable insights into how to make the BTS model work for our business without going all-in. Additionally, the new studio setup will serve as a comparison experiment to help us determine when it's time to fully transition to a BTS for the business. By testing and refining this model, “we” (I will have some ammunition to help the others) can make an informed decision about whether to adopt the BTS for all aspects of our business.

The journey to implementing a Bitcoin Standard (BTS) is like a house renovation, where clients live through the process. In our industry, renovations are often more complex than new builds, and the process of evolving an existing business to a BTS is similar. We must navigate the challenges of not disrupting an established system or overwhelming staƯ with new systems and processes. To avoid disruptions, we need to identify a "temporary roof" - a stable foundation that allows us to continue operating while we refine our BTS model. Most importantly, we must listen and be willing to pivot our process for those interested, whether from within our studio or from outside, on how and what we offer.

HODL on

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The tragic events of September 11, 2001, reshaped the world in profound and unforeseen ways. With thousands of innocent lives lost and countless more injured, the attacks were undeniably devastating. In response, the Bush administration embarked on a warpath—literally—introducing measures aimed at bringing the perpetrators to justice. These included placing a $25 million bounty on Osama bin Laden, initiating the "War on Terror" with the invasion of Afghanistan, and, notably, enacting the draconian PATRIOT Act. Twenty-three years later, while bin Laden is dead and U.S. troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan, the PATRIOT Act remains firmly in place.

Hastily passed six weeks after 9/11 as a preventive measure, the PATRIOT Act effectively neutered the Fourth Amendment and granted federal agencies unprecedented surveillance capabilities. These became the foundation for conducting "sneak and peek" searches, enabling unauthorized access to individuals' online purchases, emails, and browsing histories, and compelling banks to notify the FBI of deposits over $10,000—often sidestepping due process entirely. The irony lies in the fact that this tragedy didn't occur due to insufficient surveillance powers. A Congressional report revealed that intelligence agencies already possessed actionable information to prevent the attacks but failed to coordinate and act on it. Given such findings, one would expect a serious reevaluation of this legislation, but civil liberties have rarely been the state's primary concern, especially when a "good crisis" offers an opportunity to expand control.

Two decades later, we face a bleak reality and unsettling questions: Are we actually safer today? Are there fewer terrorists worldwide? Given the state's shifting definition of "terrorist," what prevents this law from being used against the very citizens it was meant to protect? While pondering these questions, Ben Franklin's famous words come to mind: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." In an age of emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and looming threats of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the PATRIOT Act could become a cornerstone in establishing a totalitarian technocracy where privacy is a relic of the past—if we haven't already reached that point.

Financial Privacy Implications

In free societies, personal and financial privacy form a vital buffer against government interference, surveillance, and control. Financial privacy, in particular, protects individuals' assets from potential governmental overreach or confiscation based on political, ethnic, or religious grounds. The Canadian government's invocation of the Emergencies Act during the 2022 freedom convoy protests—particularly the freezing of bank accounts belonging to truckers and their supporters—serves as a stark example. This action was later ruled "unreasonable and unconstitutional" by a federal court judge.

While the PATRIOT Act's broad surveillance powers often dominate discussions, its substantial encroachment on financial privacy is frequently overlooked. The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) of 1970 initially deputized financial institutions in combating money laundering by requiring them to report suspicious activities. The costly and administratively burdensome regulatory framework introduced by the BSA has not only severely eroded the financial privacy of law-abiding citizens but has hardly made a dent in preventing money laundering.

Before the PATRIOT Act, financial institutions were encouraged to adopt Know Your Customer (KYC) practices but were not legally obligated to do so. The BSA established a framework for reporting suspicious activities and maintaining records but did not specifically mandate customer identity verification processes during account opening. The PATRIOT Act, however, intensified these requirements by legally mandating KYC protocols and enforcing Title III, which established strict Customer Identification Programs (CIP) for verifying customer identities.

These expanded measures deeply compromised financial privacy, forcing banks to build detailed customer profiles by collecting personal data and extensively monitoring transactions. Additionally, financial institutions must file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for any transaction over $5,000 that they suspect may be related to illicit funds. The broad definition of "suspicious transactions" compels institutions to err on the side of caution and flag any transaction deemed atypical for a customer, even without clear evidence of wrongdoing. As a result, individuals have almost no control over how their financial data is used and shared with government agencies.

With access to individuals' transactional data and digital metadata from sources like social media, the government can construct an exceptionally precise record of a person's daily activities—what is often called a "pattern of life." This capability allows authorities to surveil and assess a person's actions in real-time, essentially creating a comprehensive view of their life. This level of oversight is particularly troubling in light of former NSA director General Michael Hayden's remark, "we kill people based on metadata," underscoring the potentially lethal implications of unchecked surveillance power.

Thanks to the PATRIOT Act, any money or investments held in a financial institution now essentially function as a conditional permission slip that can be frozen at any time and for any reason. The worst aspect is that, due to the unholy alliance between the state and big business, many of these actions can be carried out by private corporations at the behest of the state. This intertwining of public and corporate power opens the door to unprecedented levels of financial control over individuals, undermining both their financial privacy and personal autonomy.

What Does the Future Hold?

Senate Judiciary Committee hearings following Snowden's revelations highlighted an even more troubling fact: the PATRIOT Act's supposed effectiveness was largely overstated. This stands in sharp contrast to earlier claims in two declassified documents presented to Congress as justification before key surveillance votes in 2009 and 2011, which asserted that mass data collection was essential for detecting terrorist threats.

In 2009, an Al-Qaeda operative nearly succeeded in bombing a Detroit-bound airplane, despite the extensive dragnet surveillance programs that became the norm after the passage of the PATRIOT Act. When Senator Patrick Leahy questioned NSA Deputy Director John Inglis about claims that 54 terrorist plots had been foiled due to the Act, further examination revealed that perhaps only one plot could be loosely attributed to the bulk surveillance program. Given the stated goals of passing this law, it would be an understatement to call it a monumental failure.

This raises a different set of questions: What if this was never really about security but merely an opportunity that the state seized to "legally" establish a surveillance superstructure? Is the "surveillance state" now a permanent feature of our lives? If this reality is to change, it will likely not come from the halls of Congress but from freedom-loving individuals who, in addition to pressuring policymakers, will build new tools. Without new technological solutions that preserve our privacy, it won't be long until we find ourselves living in a dystopian nightmare controlled at every turn by Big Brother.

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Anglicismos estúpidos no português contemporâneo

Palavras e expressões que ninguém deveria usar porque não têm o sentido que as pessoas acham que têm, são apenas aportuguesamentos de palavras inglesas que por nuances da história têm um sentido ligeiramente diferente em inglês.

Cada erro é acompanhado também de uma sugestão de como corrigi-lo.

Palavras que existem em português com sentido diferente

• submissão (de trabalhos): envio, apresentação
• disrupção: perturbação
• assumir: considerar, pressupor, presumir
• realizar: perceber
• endereçar: tratar de
• suporte (ao cliente): atendimento
• suportar (uma idéia, um projeto): apoiar, financiar
• suportar (uma função, recurso, característica): oferecer, ser compatível com
• literacia: instrução, alfabetização
• convoluto: complicado.
• acurácia: precisão.
• resiliência: resistência.

Aportuguesamentos desnecessários

• estartar: iniciar, começar
• treidar: negociar, especular

Expressões

• "não é sobre...": "não se trata de..."

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Ver também

• Algumas expressões e ditados excelentes da língua portuguesa, e outras não tão excelentes assim

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Nostr and its ecosystem present a novel and unique possibility for digital self sorting. Discoverability has long been one of the main issues of the internet, this issue has to this point been solved through centralized entities. These entities or firms collect data and then present “useful” information to the individual user. It is important to note the subjectivity of what is considered “useful”. In today's world, what is useful is determined by large corporations that have their own agendas that are specifically related to you, your behavior, and your purchasing habits. The data collected from us and presented to us is the front line attack in the war in which anyone who uses a digital product or services finds themself. The process of discoverability - data collection and presentation - has become blatantly manipulative and harmful to everyone that interacts with the digital world.

Self-Sorting Thomas Sowell in “Discrimination and Disparities” talks about the importance of individual choice resulting in the formation of groups of people based on similar interests or wants. Governments and regulatory bodies often use the disparity in the outcomes resulting from this self sorting and claim that process to be unfair and harmful. The next step is to intervene and enforce, through threats of violence, rules and regulations to alter the outcomes so they appear to be more similar, or more fair. Self sorting is a natural process and the resulting disparity in outcomes resulting from self sorting is also a natural process. A society built from the natural self sorting of individuals will lead to a more productive, healthier, and happier, collective. Equality of outcome is the result of sovereign interference and thus assumes the subjectivity of the sovereign body responsible for enforcement.

Digital Sovereign The digital world is still very young. Just as past societies in the real world went through (and are still undergoing) a maturation process, that digital world is ruled by the Monarchs of our past. Twitter, Meta, Google, the Kings of the digital realm. Make no mistake the digital world is a feudal world and it does include the ability to self sort and thus form productive and healthy communities.

Self sorting is a result of the application of work to express and represent personal choice and preference. Is it possible to take that work and collect it in an open-sourced and transparent manner and then voluntarily display it to the Nostr network? Can we take control of our own freedom in the digital world and use our very own, very unique preferences and desires to create an identifiable and readable signal allowing us to navigate towards other individuals that share similar values all the while respecting and empowering individuals who have conflicting values. Imagine a self sorted internet. Where individuals share data of their choosing with the network allowing other people to identify a general quality of values and group together. Allowing companies to see this quality and indicate the possible interest in a good, product or service.

Communities or even individuals will create a quiz. The quiz for a community will need maintainers and the questions that it contains should be determined by the community itself. For quizzes created by individuals the process is less complex as it would be decided by the individual alone. Every quiz and every quiz question would be public. Most quizzes would utilize only multiple choice or agree/disagree statements.

For example lets say that the all of the current 7.2 million members of the Bitcoin community on Reddit took a standard and open sourced quiz on specific thoughts or opinions related to Bitcoin

The questions along with each individual response are put through SHA-256 hash and then that hash could be publicly displayed to the community. Seeing as how the questions are included in the hash it should be possible to compare everyone's individual hash to determine the similarity of the responses that were provided. It is likely that these quizzes would need to be paid for. Cost coupled with the actual time and effort required to complete the quiz generates a proof of work for each quiz taken. People would take many different quizzes and each one would be concatenated into a single hash that over time becomes a unique fingerprint of the individual. Hashes could then be compared and based on the quizzes any person chooses to pay for and take coupled with their individual responses it would be possible to see each individuals hash with a certain quality, almost like a color, that could be used to signal to the entire network the quality of personal values that person has.

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Risks and Regulations

Food contact materials (FCMs)

Materials that come into contact with food during processing, packaging, or transport – play a critical role in food safety. However, chemicals can migrate from these materials into food, introducing potential health risks. For instance, chemicals can leach into food from packaging materials, especially during microwaving, pasteurization, or other high-temperature exposures. Even printing inks on the outer packaging, if not well-contained, can migrate into the food or drink. Factors like high temperatures, small package-to-food ratios, fatty foods, and long storage times all increase this risk.

More than 12,200 chemicals have been identified in FCMs, but only about 100 substances are regulated by the European Union, focusing mainly on plastics. The actual composition of many materials is often undisclosed due to proprietary protection, making it challenging to assess risks fully. Even less is known about secondary substances, which may arise from additives breaking down during manufacturing.

In 2016, EU regulation defined publicly that current regulations do not sufficiently protect public health from the harmful impacts of chemicals migrating from food packaging. The current paradigm for evaluating the safety of FCMs is insufficient, as there is a general underestimation of the role of FCMs in food contamination and a lack of information on human exposure. FCMs are a significant source of human exposure to chemicals of concern, including perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) and endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), as well as those linked to neurodevelopmental issues.

Moreover, the legal framework doesn’t account for the cumulative "cocktail effect" of multiple low-level chemical exposures, which can collectively exceed safe limits. Research shows that FCMs can contribute to serious health issues like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, neurological disorders, and cancer. Although packaging is designed to preserve food, maintain quality, and extend shelf life, its chemical impacts remain insufficiently regulated, posing risks that demand greater transparency and robust oversight.

So what can we do?

Be mindful and use less packaged food. Plastic is sometimes even less harmful than paper, as many chemicals and synthetic materials are used in paper production to improve texture and prevent humidity from transferring through the paper packaging. Additionally, the barrier between ink and food in paper packaging is often not very effective. Chemicals are mostly invisible...!

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El terror inundó Valencia. Caos, culpa y resignación. Así fue la noche del día de ayer para los valencianos. Cayó tal cantidad de agua, que dejó a todos patidifusos ante este fenómeno natural. Lo que en un pasado fue conocido como Gota Fría, y hoy denominado Dana por los vividores del cambio climático™, hizo acto de presencia. Su paso fue tan devastador que no se veía tal grado de virulencia desde los años 50 del siglo pasado. Fueron horas críticas y de consecuencias fatales, pero pasada la tormenta llega la calma, o eso es lo que quieren que creas.

El Día Después ha llegado, es la hora de contar los múltiples desperfectos materiales; cómo han caído las estructuras que mantenían las redes de telecomunicación fruto de la tempestad, hacia dónde fueron a parar los incontables coches que fueron desplazados por la riada, y, sobre todo, la parte más crítica y omitida del relato, qué pasó con las personas desaparecidas. Al momento que redacto esta nota, el recuento oficial de muertes se eleva a un centenar, que previsiblemente se elevará dada la confirmación del destino de los desaparecidos. ¿Realmente ha llegado la calma tras la tormenta? Permítanme dudarlo.

El Día Después exige duelo por las víctimas y reparaciones para los damnificados, pero también respuestas. ¿Pudo haberse evitado esta desgracia? Probablemente sí. ¿Qué hubiese sido de nosotros si el aviso de emergencias se hubiera transmitido antes de las 20:00, hora crítica del desastre? ¿Por qué los políticos no movieron un dedo, con un plan de previsión, cuando se sabía, cinco días vista, que las consecuencias podrían ser fatales? ¿Dónde estaban los responsables de desmantelar servicios públicos de emergencias y presas cuya misión es la de prevenir desgracias? ¿Por qué había gente obligada a trabajar con el agua por la cintura?

Son muchas cuestiones las que asolan en el Día Después. Todas ellas quedarán sin responder y sin reparar, el duelo servirá de silencio para expiar la culpa de los responsables. Mientras, parte de la ciudadanía consciente se moviliza para ayudar en todo lo posible a los damnificados, una caridad no correspondida, pues los impuestos sirven para sufragar a quien tiene las competencias para ayudar, pero ante la inacción de la instancia superior, no queda otra que arroparse unos a otros. La otra parte de la ciudad, poblada por okupas y egoístas, solo se limitará a observar, y quien sabe si a rapiñar. Este es el Día Después de la Gota Fría. Espero que sirva para aprender algo.

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/10/31/a-doctor-with-50-50-vaccinated-unvaccinated-children-tells-what-the-difference-is/ A doctor with 50/50 vaccinated unvaccinated children tells what the difference is

usa #vaccine #children #truth #freespeech #paulthomas

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🧡 📄 October 31st, 2008 | The Bitcoin WhitePaper

For many of us, Bitcoin is much more than just a decentralized form of money. I’d even dare to say it’s the best form of money humanity has ever had—and will ever have! But Bitcoin goes beyond just being money, no matter how sound it is.

With respect for the topic, to keep this piece at a reasonable length, I’ll skip other important aspects and instead focus on Bitcoin, art and culture.

Indeed, Creativity Has Many Hands and Faces...

For years, many talented rebels from around the world—yes, artists are the group I mean here—have built a unique ecosystem of works that focus on truth, freedom, and Bitcoin. To honor their creative side and mark today’s special day, let me share some of my favorite pieces from last year’s Bitcoin Whitepaper Day.

by Flo Montoya (nostr:npub1zw0uc6anqjeg0xt5ckwd5cwcd4updt22crecaea8yn053qrquewswctfhf ) https://i.nostr.build/wgj5C4oBDtWtxxuu.png

by 0711_₿itcoin (or actually his father) https://i.nostr.build/qNi7VvpapS6ZAcPa.jpg

by Loꓘo 🦝 BTC https://i.nostr.build/XU1DYNTfOFOLGAn3.png

by MaxisClub (nostr:npub1pazuhetzx5w8yyt59lszeslxlywkeadnq6rncre7nlqv2uxnxuwq8c56r9 ) https://i.nostr.build/ZRyKIviBl0pd9gf2.png

by Bitcoin FilmFest (nostr:npub1rjtrs7xqdvj3588r9njrexh2n750j7jdwx9qs543nutmdsj6ljaqpfmp8a ) https://i.nostr.build/qt8bcr16fDkQfrkQ.jpg

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Got your favorites too? Please share! I’m curious to see what this year brings… We’ll find out soon, starting on October 31st.

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*BTC Your Mind. Let it Beat.

Şelale Malkoçoğlu*

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I’s hard to believe it’s been 16 years already...

THANK YOU, Satoshi Nakamoto! Wherever you are, BE SAFE!

To the man who change the world. And to everyone else, at the end of the day...

"We Are All Satoshi..."

Happy Whitepaper Day!

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Estoy probando un plugin para Obisidian que permite publicar directamente en NOSTR los artículos que has creado en Obsidian.

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Muchas son las maneras de referirse a la compra y mantenimiento de Bitcoin en cartera. Muchas también son las maneras de almacenarlo. Y, aunque en realidad NADIE almacena Bitcoin, sino llaves privadas y llaves públicas, no es de mi interés entrar hoy en esos tecnicismos.

Hoy quiero escribirle a la gente de a pie, los trabajadores, emprendedores, empresarios y todo aquel que se interese por lo menos un poquito en su futuro y el de los suyos. Hay algo que todos los Bitcoiners sabemos pero que muchos de ustedes no lo experimentan hasta llevarse un buen susto en su primer año de inversión (Hablaré en todo el artículo de manera indistinta entre inversión y ahorro en Bitcoin ya que en el largo larguísimo plazo y mirando a Bitcoin como moneda pero también como activo, pueden utilizarse ambos términos). Lo que no saben los que miran desde afuera, es que muy poca gente compró Bitcoin en centavos o pocos dólares (o lo minó en épocas tempranas) y todavía lo mantienen en cartera. Me arriesgaría a decir que este numero de individuos no supera unos pocos miles. Muchos no-coiners creen que los bitcoiners compraron a dos centavos se durmieron 15 años y hoy son todos ricos, pero la mayoría de los early adopters, se hundieron intentando navegar las profundas y peligrosas aguas de la custodia y el HODL.

Para quien todavía esté medio perdido y quizás este sea el primer artículo que lea, HODL es una manera "chistosa" de referirse a mantener Bitcoin en cartera, y se remonta allá por el 2013 donde un usuario quiso decir que estaba Holdeando (manteniendo) Bitcoin en cartera y lo escribió como HODLING. Pasó a la historia y hoy se usan HODL y HOLD de manera indistinta como chiste interno Bitcoiner.

En fin... Las profundas aguas... Holdear Bitcoin no es sencillo para las masas. Imaginate que tenés un activo en tu cartera, o compraste a 100 dólares y ahora vale 1.000. Lo venderías verdad? Y si vale 20.000 dólares? Ahí si lo venderías? Estarías multiplicando tu inversión como nunca. Bueno, a esa decisión se enfrentaron y se enfrentan TODOS los holders de Bitcoin más temprano o más tarde. Incluso aquel loco que compro por el 2017 en un precio de 20.000 hoy puede decidir vender y multiplicar casi por 4 su dinero en unos pocos años. Ni hablar de ese estresante momento que habías comprado en 69.000 dólares y lo viste bajar hasta los 17.000 dólares, unos cuantos meses de sufrimiento y temor... Más de uno se asustó de verdad y vendió todo, solo para verlo unas horas más tarde por arriba de los 20.000 y un año más tarde nuevamente en 70.000 dólares.

Si bien no me gusta poner el foco en el precio, lo que intento ilustrar es lo DIFICIL que puede ser ver tu inversión en máximos o en mínimos y aún así decidir mantenerla unos cuantos años más. Es dificil, aún para los que viven su tercer o cuarto ciclo de mercado. Pero se hace más y más fácil a medida que uno avanza en el famoso "rabbit hole" de Bitcoin y empieza a entenderlo desde las bases, cada vez mejor. Este camino también es arduo, entender de Bitcoin requiere un poco de conocimiento en cada campo, hay que saber un poco de tecnología, un poco de redes, un poco de seguridad informatica, una pizca de teoría de juegos, una apasionante cantidad de macroeconomía, y hasta un interés genuino en lo que Mises llamó "La acción Humana". Y todo esto, uno lo va a prendiendo con ganas y de a poco sólo para llegar a la conclusión, meses o incluso años después, de que Bitcoin tiene que ser un activo por siempre en la cartera de uno, no se vende. Incluso hay quienes llegan al punto (como este humilde ser que escribe) que no poseen otro tipo de ahorro o inversión que no sean sus pocos o muchos satoshis en Billetera Fria.

Mi recomendación siempre será que DYOR, "do your own research", investiguen, lean, pregunten, únanse a #nostr que tiene la mejor comunidad del mundo a la hora de ayudar a otros usuarios, pero si no llegan a tener el tiempo de leer y progresar sólo tómenme estos dos consejos:

• Háganse el tiempo para leer.
• Stay humble y stack sats (De a poco y constante, todo ahorro mensual que uno haga, está mejor guardado en Bitcoin, siempre gastando menos de lo que ingresa esto no debería ser dificil).

Otra dificultad que encontramos además de la parte emocional y humana relacionada con los precios y el desconocimiento, es la custodia. Cientos de personas perdieron TODO su Bitcoin por no saber almacenarlo correctamente. Decenas de maneras de almacenar claves y sin embargo muchos usuarios de Bitcoin no se sienten del todo seguro durante sus primeros años de inversión, y no están el todo equivocados... Por un lado puede ser tan sencillo como guardar 24 palabras. Por otro lado, puede no ser tan fácil, dependiendo del tipo de usuario. Entraremos en detalles de custodia en el próximo artículo.

Saludos!

El Tío.

PD: No es consejo de inversión.

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Understanding the Future of Decentralized Social Media

The Issues with Traditional Social Media

The issues with social media are well-documented. Facebook and Twitter started out as information distribution networks, but through censorship and algorithmic curation, the experience they used to provide continues to be tainted by politics and biases. Certain narratives are suppressed; certain personalities are de-platformed, and all the while, advertisers are in a race to bid for your eyeballs on every scroll.

The Rise of Nostr

Since the decay of legacy social media, many apps have tried to break their network effects with little or no success. Platforms like Gab, Truth Social and Mastodon launched with massive fanfare but have slowed down in recent years. While Nostr is being hailed as the next big alternative to social media apps like Twitter as its first use case for the protocol. While the platforms mentioned above specifically target a certain social media user Nostr doesn’t; it can’t. Nostr is only a protocol for relaying data between different users; how clients display this data is up to them.

How Nostr Works

Nostr relies on relays. There is no Nostr app, there is no Nostr website; there is no Nostr company. Nostr is a protocol that provides censorship-resistant communications on the internet. Nostr uses "dumb" relays to forward messages from one user to another. Anyone can spin up a private and public key pair, connect to a relay via a client of their choice and broadcast their information, in many cases a post, to one or several relays.

Key Features of Nostr

• Decentralized: Nostr is a decentralized network, meaning there is no central authority controlling the flow of information.
• Flexible: Clients can display data in various formats, from short-form content like Twitter to messageboard-style formats like Reddit.
• Censorship-Resistant: Nostr's design makes it difficult for any single entity to censor content.

How Nostr Relays Work

Every user is identified by a public key. Every post is signed. Every client validates these signatures. Clients fetch data from relays of their choice and publish data to other relays of their choice. A relay doesn’t talk to another relay, only directly to users.

The Benefits of Nostr

• Censorship Resistance: Nostr's design makes it difficult to boot someone off the platform completely.
• Flexibility: Users can choose which relays to broadcast on and which to ignore.
• Decentralized: No single entity controls the flow of information.

How is Nostr Different?

Nostr takes another stab at a decentralized social network without the need for a blockchain or the need for you to spin up a subdomain on a server. Unlike Mastodon, where user identities are attached to servers and servers have a degree of control over registered users, Nostr is far more open and fluid thanks to its reliance on relays.

Components of Nostr

There are two components at play on Nostr: Clients and Relays. Each user interacts with a client they prefer; this could be a web app, iOS app, Android app or Desktop application. While anyone can run a relay, think of this as a storage system that you can use or allow others to use to house their posts.

How Nostr Clients Work

Clients can publish data (i.e. create posts, likes, re-shares etc.) on any number of relays and fetch data from other relays to see what accounts they follow are up to online. Each user is assigned a public key. When a user follows someone, the user’s client fetches posts associated with that someone’s public key from the associated relay. This process is repeated on start-up, with the client querying data from all relays it knows for all users it follows.

Censorship Resistance in Nostr

Nostr has built-in censorship resistance. It sounds complicated, but such an implementation solves several flaws, such as the ability to back up your content locally and choosing which relays to broadcast on and which to ignore. That means when a relay rejects your content or shuts down, your data and account are still safely stored on your local or any relays that are still happy to house your content.

Running Your Own Nostr Relay

Platforms like Yakihonne and many other support the use of Nostr and Creation of Relays.

Source: https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/nostr-relay/

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Muchas son las maneras de referirse a la compra y mantenimiento de Bitcoin en cartera. Muchas también son las maneras de almacenarlo. Y, aunque en realidad NADIE almacena Bitcoin, sino llaves privadas y llaves públicas, no es de mi interés entrar hoy en esos tecnicismos.

Hoy quiero escribirle a la gente de a pie, los trabajadores, emprendedores, empresarios y todo aquel que se interese por lo menos un poquito en su futuro y el de los suyos. Hay algo que todos los Bitcoiners sabemos pero que muchos de ustedes no lo experimentan hasta llevarse un buen susto en su primer año de inversión (Hablaré en todo el artículo de manera indistinta entre inversión y ahorro en Bitcoin ya que en el largo larguísimo plazo y mirando a Bitcoin como moneda pero también como activo, pueden utilizarse ambos términos). Lo que no saben los que miran desde afuera, es que muy poca gente compró Bitcoin en centavos o pocos dólares (o lo minó en épocas tempranas) y todavía lo mantienen en cartera. Me arriesgaría a decir que este numero de individuos no supera unos pocos miles. Muchos no-coiners creen que los bitcoiners compraron a dos centavos se durmieron 15 años y hoy son todos ricos, pero la mayoría de los early adopters, se hundieron intentando navegar las profundas y peligrosas aguas de la custodia y el HODL.

Para quien todavía esté medio perdido y quizás este sea el primer artículo que lea, HODL es una manera "chistosa" de referirse a mantener Bitcoin en cartera, y se remonta allá por el 2013 donde un usuario quiso decir que estaba Holdeando (manteniendo) Bitcoin en cartera y lo escribió como HODLING. Pasó a la historia y hoy se usan HODL y HOLD de manera indistinta como chiste interno Bitcoiner.

En fin... Las profundas aguas... Holdear Bitcoin no es sencillo para las masas. Imaginate que tenés un activo en tu cartera, o compraste a 100 dólares y ahora vale 1.000. Lo venderías verdad? Y si vale 20.000 dólares? Ahí si lo venderías? Estarías multiplicando tu inversión como nunca. Bueno, a esa decisión se enfrentaron y se enfrentan TODOS los holders de Bitcoin más temprano o más tarde. Incluso aquel loco que compro por el 2017 en un precio de 20.000 hoy puede decidir vender y multiplicar casi por 4 su dinero en unos pocos años. Ni hablar de ese estresante momento que habías comprado en 69.000 dólares y lo viste bajar hasta los 17.000 dólares, unos cuantos meses de sufrimiento y temor... Más de uno se asustó de verdad y vendió todo, solo para verlo unas horas más tarde por arriba de los 20.000 y un año más tarde nuevamente en 70.000 dólares.

Si bien no me gusta poner el foco en el precio, lo que intento ilustrar es lo DIFICIL que puede ser ver tu inversión en máximos o en mínimos y aún así decidir mantenerla unos cuantos años más. Es dificil, aún para los que viven su tercer o cuarto ciclo de mercado. Pero se hace más y más fácil a medida que uno avanza en el famoso "rabbit hole" de Bitcoin y empieza a entenderlo desde las bases, cada vez mejor. Este camino también es arduo, entender de Bitcoin requiere un poco de conocimiento en cada campo, hay que saber un poco de tecnología, un poco de redes, un poco de seguridad informatica, una pizca de teoría de juegos, una apasionante cantidad de macroeconomía, y hasta un interés genuino en lo que Mises llamó "La acción Humana". Y todo esto, uno lo va a prendiendo con ganas y de a poco sólo para llegar a la conclusión, meses o incluso años después, de que Bitcoin tiene que ser un activo por siempre en la cartera de uno, no se vende. Incluso hay quienes llegan al punto (como este humilde ser que escribe) que no poseen otro tipo de ahorro o inversión que no sean sus pocos o muchos satoshis en Billetera Fria.

Mi recomendación siempre será que DYOR, "do your own research", investiguen, lean, pregunten, únanse a #nostr que tiene la mejor comunidad del mundo a la hora de ayudar a otros usuarios, pero si no llegan a tener el tiempo de leer y progresar sólo tómenme estos dos consejos:

• Háganse el tiempo para leer.
• Stay humble y stack sats (De a poco y constante, todo ahorro mensual que uno haga, está mejor guardado en Bitcoin, siempre gastando menos de lo que ingresa esto no debería ser dificil).

Otra dificultad que encontramos además de la parte emocional y humana relacionada con los precios y el desconocimiento, es la custodia. Cientos de personas perdieron TODO su Bitcoin por no saber almacenarlo correctamente. Decenas de maneras de almacenar claves y sin embargo muchos usuarios de Bitcoin no se sienten del todo seguro durante sus primeros años de inversión, y no están el todo equivocados... Por un lado puede ser tan sencillo como guardar 24 palabras. Por otro lado, puede no ser tan fácil, dependiendo del tipo de usuario. Entraremos en detalles de custodia en el próximo artículo.

Saludos!

El Tío.

PD: No es consejo de inversión.

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Taryn Christiansen

Discussions with Eric Zhang.

The first part of this critique can be found here. A Nostr mirror publication of this article can be found here.

Section 1:

In the previous article, our Interns argued that autonomy is the principal end of the state. Human subjectivity can be divided into at least two parts, one quantitative and the other qualitative. Both have their respective needs, whose dissatisfaction results in dehumanizing conditions. The state’s aim is not merely to provide conditions by which people can pursue their self-interests. It is also concerned with promoting the development of their capacities for reflective deliberation and choice.

The present article will move to focusing on means rather than ends. The relevant question will be: How should a network state achieve this end? Fortunately, Balaji Srinivasan offers an approach to answer this: the idea of a one-commandment. That is, a one-premise moral critique of one or several preexisting nation-state(s) that will serve as a basis, a foundational starting point, to build a network state. However, his examples of one-commandments in the book tend to be impoverished in two senses. First, while his suggestions of one-commandments tend to be moral, they lack meaning. His example of a keto-diet society could be understood and expressed in moral terms, such as criticism regarding the public and private health of a society, but that doesn’t mean it will be meaningful enough to provide a vision about a greater good, whatever that may be, which people identify with and pursue, and that provides certain kinds of motivations to act on. The second issue is that one-commandments are also supposed to function as principles that guide the legal decision-making procedures of the society. The worry is that an individual commandment will be unable to accommodate all cases that arise in legal matters, and will easily devolve into morally troublesome situations. As will be discussed below, Balaji offers a solution by suggesting that network states adopt a preexisting legal codebase from a nation-state after formulating a one-commandment. This, too, has its difficulties. Throughout this article, I will use the United States as an example, and when such a case is invoked, it can be seen that, if Srinivasan’s proposal is employed, a network state would be beset by its attempt to reconcile the various preexisting legal parameters of a nation-state’s legal codebase, such as its forms of legal reasoning, modes of justification, and precedent, with its one-commandment.

There are therefore two conditions that a one-commandment must meet. It must be moral and sufficiently meaningful, and, secondly, it must be capable of generating principles that can guide the legal reasoning within the society, which will form consistent, coherent, and precedented justifications that establish the authority and legitimacy of the state. However, by satisfying these two conditions, a further problem arises. If a one-commandment is meaningful and can guide decision-making procedures within the society, it won’t be able to be formulated in a formal language that is appropriate for smart contracts. This is a problem because of certain statements made by Balaji in his book. At several points, he suggests that the constitution of the society will be in the form of a smart contract. However, smart contracts require certain properties that one-commandments should not, in principle, have if it is to satisfy the conditions above. For example, smart contracts operate by a set of fixed and specified rules that either hold or do not hold. Their functioning properly requires that the rules programmed into the contracts are determinate and should not require interpretation or discretion. A good one-commandment, though, should not be of this kind. This will all be explained in more detail below. For now, what’s important is understanding that one-commandments must satisfy the conditions. The task now is to understand these two conditions better. Let’s begin with the first.

Section 2:

The first condition is one about meaning. Not only should a one-commandment be a moral critique; but it should also be meaningful. Now, questions like ‘What is meaning?’ are inherently difficult to answer, and I will not attempt that. A more manageable approach is to look at the effects of meaning. It’s fair to say most have an instinctual grasp of what meaning is. We may not be able to conceptualize and articulate it, but we have an intuitive feel that allows us to point it out. Finding answers to difficult and troubling questions, writing a book, getting a dream job, and achieving goals are meaningful experiences. Many may not be able to express why, but they know and feel them to be so, especially through how they affect those who have them. The same approach can be adopted here. A meaningful society would produce certain kinds of effects indicative of meaning. But what are these effects supposed to look like? An important one is the effect of people being captured by what society presents as the good, which people identify with, take up, and develop in their lives. If a society is meaningful, and if what it presents is worth adopting, then one outcome should be that individuals within the society concern themselves with developing and understanding it. One apparent way to see this is when individuals create out of what a society presents. The United States serves as an example of this. Before turning to that example, something more should be said about why meaning is central to founding network states.

What makes meaning important is that it has to be admitted that reaching diplomatic recognition amongst other sovereign states is an arduous enterprise. To be sovereign is to compete with other nations, which is a potential threat to their sovereignty. And because such recognition must be leveraged; because it is highly plausible that nations primarily act from self-interest and rarely from any motivation that borders on goodwill, network states must be sufficiently motivated by a vision that they find meaningful enough to strive toward, and are willing to persevere through the issues and hardships that arise. Therefore, it should be a principal concern of any founder to undertake a serious and thorough investigation of what is worth criticizing about preexisting nation-states that will get at the heart of the issues that people find disillusioning, alienating, oppressive, dehumanizing, or obstructing about modern societies, which, when well understood, can be articulated and expressed in ways that positively affect people’s motivations, and that moves them to join a network state.

Let’s turn now to the United States as an example of a country that proved to be meaningful. I propose that the founders of the United States offered a project worth wrestling with. That is, they provided an ideal worth poeticizing and writing literature about, that was worth developing and coming to terms with which was meaningful enough to salvage and maintain despite its flaws and contradictions. It produced images that moved people and provided a sense of being a part of something bigger and more significant than themselves. The fact that many artists, writers, and philosophers devoted their creative resources toward the American project, who tried to work out its tensions and make progress in its promises of equality and freedom by understanding and elucidating its foundations and concepts, is evidence of the reality of what the United States attempted to do. Despite what the country got wrong and what it grossly failed to live up to, it grasped something true, which can be seen by how the society breathed life into the imaginative capacities of its people.

It is well known that the Founders of the United States were deeply influenced by the Enlightenment, especially the philosopher John Locke. It was Locke who offered a certain conception of a state of nature, where human beings are born free and equal and where each has a natural right to life, liberty, and property, that was expressed in Thomas Jefferson’s famous declaration that certain truths are held to be ‘self-evident’. These are truths supposedly discernible to anyone with the rational faculties necessary for ascertaining them. Locke believed that once someone has done the reasoning themself; who has followed the light of reason on its definite paths, these moral propositions will be illuminated as if they were mathematical axioms or basic expressions of arithmetic. They would be so firmly impressed upon the mind that no rational person could deny them. He writes in his Second Treatise on Government, “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker.” If all the layers of society are peeled away, what lies underneath is a natural condition of equality and freedom. No divine hierarchy orders human beings by referring to their relation to an infinite being that justifies Monarchic authority, or the Church's claims to legitimacy. In a natural state preceding all social conventions and rules are natural laws that grant rights to those under it, and a legitimate government, one that may be properly said to have and wield authority, establishes the protection of people’s rights through the rule of law. Because in a state of nature, people must self-govern, they may easily overstep and try to violate the rights of others. They may steal the property of another person, restrict or take the freedom and liberty of someone else, or even take someone’s life; and since there is no central authority but only individuals, enforcing rights can be dangerous and costly. A good government would reduce and channel people’s dispositions toward self-interest and vice, directing it toward better, more productive ends. Thomas Paine, who played a fundamental role in galvanizing the people for the cause of revolution, wrote in his famous pamphlet Common Sense in 1775, “Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.” So, he agrees with Locke: government is a necessary evil because human beings cannot sustain and enjoy their natural rights to freedom and equality independent of external constraint.

Now, whether or not normative natural laws exist is not important here; what matters is that Locke held such a view and that the Founders were influenced by it when writing the country's founding documents. In having this view, Locke provided the initial concepts of freedom and equality at the forefront of how the United States conceived of itself over time.

What’s essential to this view of natural rights is that underlying it are claims about an ahistorical element of human nature that is not subject to social and cultural conditions. This aspect of human beings stands outside of time. As Locke believed, human beings’ capacity for reason is the locus of dignity and respect owed to each person. By having contact with truth, with being able to reason to it, and because truth is good, the ideal of a good society is to promote the right human faculties that have access to it. And to achieve this, a free, democratic, liberal society is necessary. Only if human beings exercise these faculties for themselves, enabling them to rationally discern these ‘self-evident’ truths, can this vision of human potential be realized. The people must be able to self-govern and not depend on a patriarch or dictator to do it for them. For human beings to realize the fundamental dignity that characterizes them; for a free, equal, and just society of autonomous individuals to exist, the people must be able and willing to participate and uphold a democracy that places the responsibility of their well-being in their own hands. However, as the French philosopher Montesquieu points out in his work Spirit of the Laws, which was also profoundly influential for the founders, democracy, as a form of government, requires virtue. He writes that in an aristocracy or a monarchy, “the force of laws in one, and the prince’s arm in the other, are sufficient to direct and maintain the whole. But in a popular state (like a democracy), one spring more is necessary, namely, virtue.” If the people are not virtuous; if they do not act from the right source that grounds their dignity and respect but from human wickedness and vice; if unable to actualize what is necessary for self-governance, then democracy will not work, and the American project will fail.

The takeaway from this philosophical vignette is that the foundations established in the United States held freedom, equality, and democracy as fundamental values that would animate the society, and that would lead to reimaginings of what those concepts mean over time. These are deep sources of meaning for those who identify as Americans, regardless of what part of the political spectrum one is on. Every political speech has to pay homage to these ideas. The use of the word freedom alone by a politician in the US can legitimize what they say to the public, even if their words are empty and lack significance. But when used properly and with meaning, they culminate into the highest expression of American society. While the language of Martin Luther King Jr is religious, it is also fundamentally American, and it was his ability to understand, develop, and wield that language that made him such an influential figure. Since America’s inception and development, the language of rights, freedom, equality, and democracy has become ubiquitous in the context of morality and human value, which points to how meaningful these concepts are. American literature also played a central role in this development.

American literature is an example of those within the society trying to come to terms with what these ideas mean, how to understand them, and how life should be lived in light of them. The example I want to look at is the 19th-century American Transcendentalist movement, with figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. As thinkers, these three certainly have their differences, but what is continuous is the attempt to expound an individualism that is the source of a universal nature. By being an individual, as someone free and ‘self-reliant’, who does not conform to external constraints but relies on their internal intuitions, who trust themselves through and through, a truly democratic society may be realized. One should not be a product of mere circumstance; one must actively shape it. Emerson writes in his essay Self-Reliance that “there is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is a new nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.” Each individual has a unique and authentic self, differentiated from everyone else, and the noble life to pursue is one of uncovering this potential. To carve a path distinct from all that has come before is to lead a virtuous, spiritual life of freedom.

In the case of Henry David Thoreau, he gives his individualism a political salience, especially in his essay Civil Disobedience. There he argues that until people can participate in a democracy by using their conscience, by their capacity to discern the right for themselves, independent of what others say, think, or do, will the government be less liable to corruption. He begins the essay in agreement with Locke and Paine, saying, “I heartily accept the motto - ‘That government is best which governs least.’” Government is an expedient, he says, something purely instrumental, and what matters for society is for the people within it to realize their own moral conscience, which, of course, requires the exercising of their faculties, of their capacity for moral deliberation and choice. No one can do this for anyone else; in a democracy, where a majority may easily wield power unjustly by the sheer use of numbers, it is the responsibility of the individual to participate in the political processes by thinking for themselves, which must be directed toward justice and virtue, just as Montesquieu argued. And when government fails, when it does live up to its sole purpose which is to promote the well-being of the society, then it is the duty of its citizens to peacefully disobey the law, to obstruct its processes, until justice emerges and the rights of people are restored. This has been one of the most lasting contributions made by an American: it provided Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. a way to demonstrate the injustices they dedicated their lives to eradicating.

Whereas Thoreau and Emerson focused more on individualism, Walt Whitman focused more on what unites and what is universal about human beings in a democratic context. The political scholar George Kaleb writes, “Together with Emerson and Thoreau, Whitman tries to draw out the fuller moral and existential significance of rights. These are the rights that individuals have as persons and that the political system of democracy exists in order to protect.” Whitman’s poetry attempts to animate a democratic spirit, a national identity, that ‘the people’ identify with, and that moves them to feel the sanctity of individual rights. If democracy is going to work, the society must be animated by a sense of connectedness whose source produces the tolerance, sympathy, understanding, and moral conscience necessary for people to self-govern, and for individuals to choose the lives they wish to live. But this can only be achieved if the notion of rights sparks feelings of reverence, of emotions that dispose one to care for the dignity of other people, both in action and thought; otherwise, the society will surely either devolve into a tyranny of the majority or an elite aristocracy that governs over the community. In America, as the Transcendentalists saw it, what is universal is the individual, with each one’s infinite potential for becoming, and democracy and its virtues must promote the right of the individual to cultivate this potential for themselves.

The founding of the United States, then, and its underlying principles of rights, freedom, equality, and democracy, were sufficiently rich enough for subsequent generations to reimagine and reinterpret, through poetry, literature, and philosophy, what it means to be an American. Those who identified with the country and found it meaningful were willing to direct their efforts toward developing an ethos within the United States. This is of course a tall order, and the expectation of what a network state is, or what it should become, will likely be less than this example. Nevertheless, the U.S. is founded on principles rather than ethnicity or religion - or at least in principle - which serves as a model for network states and their one-commandments.

Satisfying the first condition means putting forth a project worth investigating, developing, and creating out of. If a network state is to have longevity, then the founders must spend their time establishing principles that will move people to envision a better mode of life that elicits motivating reasons to care for its inception and growth. And, of course, there will and should be a great deal of diversity between what networks states formulate as principles worth living by. There is likely a plurality of solutions that have the potential to make people better off. The environments people grow and develop in, the cultures they're embedded in, and the values instilled, are diverse. Therefore, the socio-political structures most conducive to each group's well-being will be too. However, what should not be diverse is the goal to provide a vision of a better life for those who desire to leave preexisting nation-states and join a network state.

Section 3:

Let’s turn now to the second condition. The question to be turned to is how principles can be formulated that will guide the decision-making procedures within a network state. This question can be thought of as one about the nature of principles. What should principles look like? I don’t aim to offer an exhaustive answer to this question, but, again, if the focus is on a significant aspect of principles, it will be helpful to look into and analyze it. Such an aspect can come to light by distinguishing principles from rules. What is significant in this discussion is that, whereas rules can be encoded into smart contracts, principles cannot. Rules are mechanical by nature, whereas principles require interpretation when applying them in context, especially in unprecedented situations. An example of this is the United States. When the Declaration of Independence states that all people are created equal, the document presents a principle by which the society will operate. Such a principle cannot be captured by a formal language appropriate to technologies like smart contracts. This will be explored with more detail below, but to herald what that will look like, think about how this principle could be captured by a language that is by its nature binary. That is, a language that necessitates formulating conditions that either obtain or do not obtain. A smart contract that is prone to ambiguity, and that lacks resources to determine whether something has been met or not is a defunct one; one that hasn’t been properly coded according to possible situations that will or may arise. On the other hand, rules are of a kind that do exactly this and are therefore viable candidates for smart contracts. Principles guide a society’s decision-making procedures, which generates rules that align with the principles themselves. This will also establish the legitimacy of a network state. When people join a network state, what they’re essentially agreeing to is the set of principles that will used to govern the society. And if no principles are formulated, or if they are but are poorly articulated and understood, then the justifications employed by the state will be impoverished in quality as well. Punishment is a great example of this. Every state must have an apparatus to administer punishments for those who violate the rules, and if those rules do not correspond to a firmly established standard that creates consistency and coherence between them, then the applications of those rules can easily produce inequalities, unfairness, injustices, etc. And what right does a state have to punish if it does so arbitrarily and not for the sake of reasons that can be justified according to a set of principles that the members of the society initially agreed to? Imagine a group of friends who all adopt the rule that promises must always be lived up to, but who then only adhere to it when it applies to some friends rather than others, and who attempt to enforce the rule by blaming and criticizing someone who breaks it, even though they all do so. It would be fair to say then that the rule has little to no legitimacy because it’s applied arbitrarily. There must be some acknowledged, rational basis to ground the rules that supply a measure of consistency and coherence that can be applied when broken. Therefore, it is important to distinguish between rules and principles to be clear about what the target concept of a one-commandment is and to eliminate potential confusion that may result in harm to those willing to join a network state.

As mentioned above, this distinction is relevant because Srinivasan seems to believe that smart contracts can function like constitutions which, as in the United States, consist of principles and not rules. So, it is significant to see how smart contracts cannot achieve this.

Turning to the book then, when Srinivasan offers his complex definition of a network state, one of the clauses of the definition states that it is “a consensual government limited by a social smart contract.” Then in section 2.4.3, he seems to suggest that law is reducible to smart contracts, and suggests optimistically that one day they will be the primary bearers of legal codes. This indicates that he believes one-commandments will operate through smart contracts, as sets of conditions that function more or less mechanically. Again, the issue is that it oversimplifies the nature of law. If a one-commandment may sufficiently guide the decision-making procedures of the society, then it will be unable to be formalized into a smart contract. The distinction between rules and principles helps us see this. Recall that rules, by their nature, have an all-or-nothing character. A rule in baseball states that when there are three strikes someone is out, which either obtains or does not. There is no wiggle room or discussion about whether the rule is valid or not. Exceptions to this rule are not about the validity of the rule itself but about whether the rule applies, as is the case when deciding whether a pitch is a strike or a ball. Disputes about whether a player is out or not is a matter of whether the proper conditions for the rule have been met. Laws in a society share similar features. For example, when a police officer issues a speeding ticket, they are merely applying a rule that either holds or does not hold. And when someone disputes the validity of the ticket, they are disputing whether the law (the rule) was broken or not, and not whether the law itself is valid. Now, one-commandments which satisfy the second condition will not be amenable to these kinds of constraints. One-commandments will operate more like principles than rules. As the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin points out, principles have two dimensions that rules do not. First, principles are not all-or-nothing but require discretion when being applied to cases. For instance, the principle ‘always be fair’ cannot be formulated in rule-like terms. In other words, principles cannot be exhausted by enumerating their parts and accounting for all the possible cases it is relevant to. Of course, there will be clear cases when the principle is violated, but there will remain countless cases that have to be understood by applying and interpreting the principle. In the case of baseball again, imagine if one of the game’s rules was ‘to always be fair’. How could this be formulated in a way that gives it an all-or-nothing quality, which will render it mechanical and unambiguous? It’s impossible. Rules will have to be formed in light of the principle. For instance, perhaps the three-strike rule is the fairest standard by which the game can be played; a rule can then be established accordingly. But this again requires distinguishing between rules and principles.

Rules are candidates for being encoded into smart contracts because of their mechanical nature. Principles, on the other hand, are not and require interpretation when cases arise that are ambiguous or unprecedented. Because one-commandments are tasked with guiding the decision-making procedures of the society and of formulating laws that will constrain the behavior of its members, they should not be understood as being rules themselves but rather as normative principles, as reasons for forming certain judgments about the law and the conduct it is meant to regulate. It’s important to understand one-commandments this way because if they are seen as rules; if they are treated as being reducible to all-or-nothing propositions, then the higher, more complex legal procedures, the ones that require interpretation and discretion, will be unable to deal with cases that elude a rules application, and therefore will be unable to fully guide the society, which one-commandments are supposed to do. If they are treated as principles, as standards to produce rules and to apply when ambiguity arises in exceptional cases, a society will be better equipped to form consistent and fair legal precedents. For instance, the First Amendment in the US Constitution is a principle about free speech; it protects individuals’ and groups’ right to freely express their opinions and beliefs. When cases arise that pertain to this right, and if the case contains a sufficient degree of complexity, then the Supreme Court examines the case based on the First Amendment and past cases with similar conditions. Now, ideally, they would resolve the case by merely referencing precedent, and not on considerations regarding their own moral and ethical opinions. They would observe how previous judges may have applied the First Amendment in similar cases to the one being adjudicated, and draw their conclusions accordingly. What’s important is that they appeal to a document of principles that serves as a standard by which cases can be resolved, or, if the case is novel enough, generate new laws that will serve as future precedents.

As mentioned, one of the essential functions here is to provide justifiable reasons for decision-making, which eliminates the degree of arbitrariness inherent in the conclusions drawn by the state. In the US, when issues arise regarding rights, duties, laws, or any other politico-legal issue, the constitution serves as a basic frame of reference, a justifiable grounding for one’s judgments and assertions, that gives weight to the forms of reasoning that occur within the society. Of course, that doesn’t mean the Constitution cannot be morally evaluated. It has, and it should be. But because moral opinion can vary so widely, and because there must be some shared standard by which the society can operate in its deliberative processes, without which disorder and confusion would dominate its operations, the constitution provides a general basis for achieving this. It is essential, then, as a founder of a network state, to carefully consider the principles that will be adopted to govern the society.

An example of a one-commandment will illustrate the point. In his book, Srinivasan presents an FDA-free society as a possible network state and formulates a principle that undergirds it: Your body, your choice. Because of the history of the FDA, Srinivasan imagines a founder who would desire to create a network state that would address those issues by implementing this principle and eliminating third-party institutions that limit people’s ability to make choices regarding what they wish to produce and consume. But Srinivasan then makes the following suggestion, which creates issues: With this principle, “you could then take the existing American codebase and add one crucial new feature: the absolute right for anyone to buy or sell any medical product without third party interference.” The problem is that the US legal codebase is derived from the US Constitution, and because that document consists of twenty-seven amendments and not one, substantial revisions will be necessary for making Your Body, your Choice the principal standard within the society’s legal system. For instance, if regulation like what the FDA does is eliminated, then the commerce clause of the constitution that states “Congress shall have (the) Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, should be either eliminated or greatly reduced in bearing any significance in future cases of law. That means of course that any part of the legal codebase derived from this amendment must be altered as well.

Now, while this problem is technically difficult because founders have the responsibility to hierarchically organize principles by their relative weights, it also has moral concerns. For instance, imagine a case where someone starts a private school within the FDA-free network state and decides to only admit persons of a certain race. Imagine further that the principle Your body, your choice has been interpreted by the judiciary sector of the society to mean that producers of goods and services like education can do what they please insofar as they obtain consent. Now, because they adopted the US legal codebase, and because I took this to mean that legal precedent has been carried over as well, then what if another member, one who has been discriminated against by the new school, appeals to Brown v. Board of Education, which relies on the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution? Either the decision made will have to uphold the conduct of the school by appealing to Your body, your choice, which will mean the Fourteenth Amendment is reduced in significance, or they will have to prioritize that amendment over Your body, your choice. Either option has its difficulties, but clearly, the first option is far worse because of its oppressive and discriminatory nature. Therefore, founders mustn't merely establish a principle and then adopt a codebase. The principles expressed in a one-commandment should be deeply considered to avoid these kinds of potential catastrophes.

Let’s look at another case. In the absence of regulatory institutions, and this being so based on principle, is there no restriction regarding what someone within the society may produce and consume? Could someone choose to sell one of their kidneys in exchange for other goods? Could pharmaceutical manufacturers sell a carcinogenic drug by misrepresenting it as being capable of curing other diseases, and where the consumers who purchased the drug are told they’re out of luck? These are possible cases that are not ruled out by an unspecified and ambiguous principle like Your Body, your Choice. Unless a founder wishes to bite the bullet on these kinds of cases, this means further principles need to be developed that will interact with one another and can be used to form legal judgments that align with basic moral intuitions like having some form of consumer protection that prevent wrongful forms of exploitation, as is the case with misrepresentation of goods and services that undermines consumer consent.

A single, all-encompassing one-commandment that can guide a society’s decision-making procedures is difficult to formulate. Committing to a principle like Your body, your choice will likely lead to complications, as the previous two examples demonstrate. To avoid this, a good approach is to make a general enough principle that can be universalizable; one that is applicable and appropriate in all cases. The philosopher Immanuel Kant and his moral philosophy offer excellent examples of this. One of Kant’s famous contributions to moral philosophy is the idea of a categorical imperative. How Kant gets to this idea is complicated, and I’m not going to attempt an explanation of that. But from it, he generates universally applicable principles that a one-commandment should strive for, one of which can be called the humanity principle: never act in such a way that we treat humanity, whether in ourselves or in others, as a means only but always as an end in itself. An entryway into understanding an application of this principle is in the case of friendship. When two people are friends, this typically means that both persons treat one another as ends-in-themselves. Both friends represent each other as deserving consideration that does not use the other for any purpose other than for their own sake. When promises are made and decisions are acted upon in the context of the friendship, both share the responsibility of respecting the other by holding the other as the end one is directed toward. This doesn’t mean the friend is never treated as a means - that would be impossible. Sometimes people need a ride to work when their car has broken down, or one friend knows someone who can help the other get the job, and so one uses the other by obtaining the contact. But both are never to use the other as merely a means. Certain benefits may be derived from having a friend, but one is never a friend for those reasons: one is a friend because the other is intrinsically valuable.

In a society, this principle is general enough to guide the decision-making procedures. That’s not to say its application will be easy. It will often be difficult to understand what this principle amounts to and how it should be interpreted, but it won’t run into the same issues as Your body, your choice. The difference in generality between these two principles can be seen in the way failures occur when trying to follow them. Your body, your choice inevitably runs into cases that question its validity because certain moral intuitions desired to be preserved are violated. The humanity principle doesn’t easily run into this problem. When a case arises that seems to question the principle, it’s not so much whether it is valid because it fails to live up to intuitions but because it is difficult to live up to it as an ideal. Out of these two problems, failing to live up to a principle is better than adopting one that fails to satisfy moral expectations. The US Constitution is a great example of this. The idea of self-evident truths that hold human beings to have intrinsic value by virtue of their natural rights has proven to be a powerful resource for recognizing and upholding the moral worth of persons. The country has failed to live up to this throughout its history, but as an ideal, it has persistently pointed to a path forward to resolve the mistreatment of those within the society. While the contradiction of slavery in the United States was for a long time suppressed and rationalized, the language of natural rights provided the conceptual resources to dig it back up and shed light on it. As many have pointed out, the language of rights is self-correcting. If mistreatment of others exists, then the language illuminates it, brings it out into the open, and directs attention and concern for rectifying the moral shortcomings. Therefore, one-commandments should aim for universalizability, and avoid narrow and constrained principles that fail to capture moral intuitions. Having an ideal that one fails to live up to is far better than an impoverished one that lacks the proper resources.

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Chef's notes

I got the recipe from the byanjushka website. She includes a lot more information on there, and lots of pictures and instructions. But it's all in German, so here's my quickie, English version. I've doubled the amounts, as I first baked this for the #PurpleKonnektiv meetup, and I knew I'd have some hungry guests.

The cookies are vegan, but they're mostly just peanut, so it's sort of irrelevant. Just make sure you get the really high-quality peanut butter that is 100% peanut. You can usually identify it by the fact that the oil separates from the base, a bit. Everything else is probably with hardened palm oil, or something.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 15 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 10 min
• 🍽️ Servings: 30 cookies

Ingredients

• 500 g peanut butter, normal or crunchy
• 300 g brown (or raw) sugar
• 160 ml plant-based milk (or cows' milk, if you don't care about vegan)
• 1 pkg vanilla sugar (bourbon is nice) or 1 tsp vanilla
• 250 g flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2/3 tsp salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180 °C (350 °F).
2. Beat together the peanut butter and the sugars, with an electric mixer.
3. Mix in milk and vanilla.
4. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, salt, and baking powder.
5. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, and then knead the dough a bit.
6. (At this point, I put the dough in the fridge overnight, and baked it the next day.)
7. Line your baking sheet with baking paper.
8. Form tbsp-spoon-sized balls of dough.
9. Press each one flat, with a fork, dipping the fork in water, before each press (to keep the dough from sticking to the fork).

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พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา สร้างชาตินี้ เจริญชาติหน้า

นี่ไม่ใช่บทความสรุปเนื้อหาไลฟ์ ผมแค่จะหยิบเอาโควทเจ๋งๆ ของพี่ชิตมาขยายความต่อตามความเข้าใจของผมเท่านั้นนะครับ (ใครยังไม่ได้ชมไลฟ์ตัวเต็ม กดดูเลยนะครับ) Right Talk EP.1

"พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" ไม่ใช่พรรคการเมืองตามนิยามทั่วไป แต่เป็นแนวคิด หรือ อุดมการณ์ (พี่ชิตนิยามว่ามันเป็นโปรโตคอล) ในการพัฒนาอย่างยั่งยืน

คำว่า "พรรค" ในที่นี้จึงเป็นการใช้ในเชิงสัญลักษณ์ หมายถึงกลุ่มคนที่ร่วมอุดมการณ์เดียวกัน (เหล่าบิตคอยเนอร์) คือการสร้างความเปลี่ยนแปลงเชิงบวกในระยะยาว

"สร้างชาตินี้" ก็คือการเน้นย้ำถึงการลงมือทำอย่างจริงจังในปัจจุบัน ไม่ใช่แค่นอนฝันหรือรอคอยอนาคต การสร้างรากฐาน การพัฒนาตนเอง การสะสมความรู้และทรัพยากร ล้วนเป็นการสร้างเพื่ออนาคต

"ชาติหน้า" ในที่นี้ไม่ได้หมายถึงชาติภพหน้าทางศาสนา แต่เป็นการเปรียบเปรยถึงอนาคตระยะยาว ผลลัพธ์ของการ "สร้างชาตินี้" อาจไม่ปรากฏในทันที แต่จะส่งผลดีในอนาคตอย่างแน่นอน เหมือนกับการลงทุนระยะยาว หรือการปลูกต้นไม้ที่ต้องใช้เวลากว่าจะเติบโตและออกดอกผลิผล

1. "Free Market Capitalism ในอดีตมันมีจุดอ่อนอยู่จุดเดียว มันยังไม่มี Free Market Money"

พี่ชิตมองว่าระบบทุนนิยมเสรีที่ผ่านๆ มายังไม่ใช่ของจริง มันเหมือนเล่นเกมส์ที่มีคนโกง คือมีรัฐเนี่ยแหละที่เป็นตัวแสบ คอยแทรกแซงตลาดอยู่ตลอด ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการควบคุมเงินตรา การออกกฎหมาย การเก็บภาษี พวกนี้แม่งโคตรบิดเบือนตลาดเลย

ทีนี้ "จุดอ่อน" ที่พี่ชิตแกพูดถึงก็คือ "Free Market Money" หรือเงินที่เป็นอิสระจากการควบคุมของรัฐนั่นเอง

คือถ้าเงินแม่งยังอยู่ในมือรัฐ มันก็จะคอยปั่น คอยแทรกแซง ทำให้ตลาดแม่งไม่เสรีจริงๆ สักที เหมือนเราเล่นไพ่ แล้วเจ้ามือแม่งแอบดูไพ่มึงเร่ เราจะชนะได้ยังไง?

แล้ว "Free Market Money" มันคืออะไรวะ?

ก็ Bitcoin ไง Bitcoin แม่งไม่มีใครควบคุมได้ ไม่มีรัฐบาลไหน ธนาคารไหนมาสั่งซ้ายหันขวาหันได้ มันเป็นเงินของประชาชนอย่างแท้จริง

พอมี Bitcoin เข้ามา ระบบทุนนิยมเสรีก็จะสมบูรณ์แบบ ตลาดก็จะเสรีจริงๆ สักที เล่นไพ่แล้วเจ้ามือแม่งยุติธรรม เล่นตามกติกา แบบนี้ถึงจะแฟร์

นี่แหละ Key สำคัญที่พี่ชิตแกพยายามจะสื่อ คือถ้าอยากให้ระบบทุนนิยมเสรีมันเวิร์ค มึงต้อง "Fix the Money" ก่อน แล้วโลกแม่งก็จะค่อยๆ ดีขึ้นเอง

2. "Fix the Money, Fix the World"

แกหมายความว่า.. ปัญหาโลกส่วนใหญ่ เช่น ความเหลื่อมล้ำ ก็มาจากระบบเงินตราที่ห่วยแตกนี่แหละ เงินเฟ้อ รัฐบาลพิมพ์เงินมั่วซั่ว พวกนี้แม่งโคตรทำลายชีวิตคน

ถ้าเราแก้ระบบเงินได้ เปลี่ยนไปใช้ Bitcoin ที่ไม่มีใครควบคุม ไม่มีใครปั่นได้ โลกมันก็จะดีขึ้นเอง ปัญหาต่างๆ ก็จะค่อยๆ หายไป

เหมือนกับการซ่อมรากฐานบ้าน ถ้ารากฐานมันดี บ้านมันก็จะแข็งแรง อยู่ได้นาน แต่ถ้ารากฐานมันพัง ต่อให้ทาสีบ้านสวยแค่ไหน สุดท้ายมันก็พังอยู่ดี

3. "Bitcoiner ก็เป็นสมาชิกพรรคพี่ชิตหมดแล้ว"

มันไม่ได้หมายความว่า Bitcoiner ต้องไปสมัครพรรคการเมืองอะไร

"พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" มันไม่ใช่พรรคการเมืองจริงๆ แต่มันคือแนวคิด คืออุดมการณ์ คือวิถีชีวิต ที่เน้นการพึ่งพาตัวเอง การกระจายอำนาจ เสรีภาพ และ Bitcoin ตอบโจทย์ทั้งหมดนี้เลย

Bitcoiner ส่วนใหญ่ก็จะมี Mindset คล้ายๆ แบบนี้ คือไม่ชอบให้ใครมาควบคุม ชอบอิสระ เชื่อในการกระจายอำนาจ เพราะงั้น Bitcoiner ก็เลยเหมือนเป็นสมาชิก "พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" โดยอัตโนมัติ โดยที่ไม่ต้องไปสมัครอะไรเลย มันอยู่ในสายเลือด อยู่ใน DNA ของ Bitcoiner อยู่แล้ว

4. "Work, Saving, Stacking นี่คือพวกเราทำงานให้กับพรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา"

พวกเราที่ทำงาน หาเงิน เก็บออม แล้วเอาเงินไปซื้อ Bitcoin สะสมไว้เนี่ย มันคือการทำงานให้กับพรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนาในทางอ้อม

เพราะการที่เรา Stack sats มันคือการสนับสนุน Decentralization การต่อต้านอำนาจรวมศูนย์ และการสร้าง Free Society ซึ่งเป็นหัวใจหลักของพรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนานั่นเอง

พวกเราเป็นเหมือน "เซลล์" ที่ช่วยกันขับเคลื่อนพรรคให้เติบโต ยิ่งเรา Stack sats มากเท่าไหร่ พรรคก็ยิ่งแข็งแกร่งและเข้าใกล้เป้าหมายมากขึ้นเท่านั้น

มันเหมือนกับการที่เรา Contribute ให้กับ Open Source Project เราอาจจะไม่ได้เป็น Developer เขียนโค้ด แต่เราก็สามารถสนับสนุนโครงการได้ด้วยการบริจาคเงินหรือช่วยโปรโมทได้ ซึ่งมันก็เป็นส่วนหนึ่งในการขับเคลื่อน Project นั้นๆ ให้ประสบความสำเร็จเช่นกัน

มันคือการทำงานเพื่อ "อุดมการณ์" เพื่อ "อนาคต" ในแบบที่เราอยากเห็น ไม่ใช่แค่การทำงานเพื่อเงินเดือนหรือผลประโยชน์ส่วนตัว

5. "Decentralization มันอยู่ใน DNA ของคำว่าสุวรรณภูมิ"

พี่ชิตต้องการจะสื่อว่า Decentralization มันเป็นรากเหง้า เป็นแก่นแท้ของภูมิภาคสุวรรณภูมิมาตั้งแต่โบราณแล้ว

สมัยก่อน.. แถบนี้ไม่ได้มีรัฐบาลกลางที่แข็งแกร่ง มีแต่ชุมชนเล็กๆ เมืองเล็กๆ กระจายอยู่เต็มไปหมด

ต่างคนต่างปกครองตัวเอง พึ่งพาตัวเอง ค้าขายแลกเปลี่ยนกันอย่างอิสระ ไม่มีใครมาบังคับ

มันก็เลยเหมือนกับ Decentralization ในโลก Bitcoin ที่ไม่มีใครคุม ไม่มีตัวกลาง ทุกคนมีอำนาจเท่าเทียมกัน

Decentralization แบบนี้แหละ ที่ทำให้สุวรรณภูมิเจริญรุ่งเรืองในอดีต และพี่ชิตก็เชื่อว่า Decentralization นี่แหละที่จะเป็นกุญแจสำคัญในการพัฒนาประเทศไทย และภูมิภาคนี้ในอนาคต

6. "รวมกันเราอยู่ แต่ไม่อนุญาตให้ใครเอาเปรียบซึ่งกันและกัน"

การอยู่ร่วมกันในสังคมมันต้องมี "กฎ" มี "กติกา" ที่ทุกคนต้องเคารพ เพื่อป้องกันไม่ให้ใครเอาเปรียบใคร

เหมือนในโลก Bitcoin ที่มี "Consensus Rules" คอยควบคุมระบบ ทำให้ทุกคนเล่นตามกฎเดียวกัน ไม่มีใครได้เปรียบเสียเปรียบ

แต่กฎที่ว่านี้.. มันต้องมาจากความสมัครใจ ไม่ใช่มาจากการบังคับหรืออำนาจรวมศูนย์ ทุกคนต้องมีส่วนร่วมในการสร้างและยอมรับกฎนั้นๆ

พูดง่ายๆ คือ รวมกันเราอยู่ก็จริง แต่มันต้องแฟร์ ต้องยุติธรรมด้วย

ไม่ใช่รวมกันเพื่อให้ใครบางคนรวย หรือ รวมกันเพื่อให้ใครบางคนมีอำนาจ

7. "ความจริงมันมีอยู่แล้ว แต่ความจริงแม่งช้า"

พี่ชิตพูดถึงธรรมชาติของ "ความจริง" ซึ่งความจริงมันก็มีอยู่แล้ว มันไม่ได้ขึ้นอยู่กับความเชื่อ หรือความคิดเห็นของใคร

แต่มันอาจจะต้องใช้เวลา กว่าที่คนส่วนใหญ่จะเข้าใจและยอมรับความจริงนั้น

เหมือนกับตอนที่คนสมัยก่อนเชื่อว่าโลกแบน แต่ความจริงคือโลกกลม กว่าที่คนส่วนใหญ่จะยอมรับความจริงนี้ได้ก็ปาไปตั้งหลายร้อยปี

Bitcoin ก็เหมือนกัน..

พี่ชิตเชื่อว่า Bitcoin คือ "ความจริง" คือ "อนาคตของเงิน" แต่ตอนนี้คนส่วนใหญ่อาจจะยังไม่เข้าใจ ยังมองว่ามันเป็นแค่ของเล่น การพนัน หรือ แชร์ลูกโซ่

แต่สักวันหนึ่ง.. ความจริงของ Bitcoin จะปรากฏ และทุกคนจะยอมรับมัน เหมือนที่พี่ชิตบอกว่า..

"อีก 10 ปีมึงไม่ต้องเชิญเลย"

คืออีก 10 ปี คนจะเข้าใจ Bitcoin กันหมด ไม่ต้องมาจัดสัมมนาหรือเสียอธิบายอะไรกันอีกแล้ว

มันก็เหมือนกับ "ความจริงเป็นสิ่งไม่ตาย"

ต่อให้ตอนนี้คนส่วนใหญ่จะยังไม่เชื่อ ไม่เข้าใจ แต่สุดท้ายแล้วความจริงก็จะชนะ และเปิดเผยตัวเองออกมาเอง

เพียงแต่เราต้องอดทนรอหน่อยเท่านั้นเอง...

8. "Leave me alone"

สะท้อนแนวคิด Libertarian ที่เน้น "อิสรภาพส่วนบุคคล" แบบสุดๆ

คือพี่ชิตไม่อยากให้ใคร แม้แต่รัฐบาล มาควบคุม หรือบังคับแก แกอยากจะทำอะไรก็ทำ อยากใช้ชีวิตยังไงก็ใช้ โดยที่ไม่ต้องมีใครมาจุ้นจ้าน

พี่ชิตมองว่า.. รัฐบาลควรมีบทบาทน้อยที่สุด แค่คอยดูแลความสงบเรียบร้อยและรักษาความยุติธรรมก็พอ ส่วนเรื่องอื่นๆ ประชาชนควรจัดการกันเอง

"Leave me alone" จึงเป็นเสียงสะท้อนจากใจของคนที่เบื่อระบบราชการ กฎระเบียบและการแทรกแซงจากรัฐ

แกอยากให้ทุกคน "Take care yourself" พึ่งพาตัวเองให้ได้ ไม่ใช่รอคอยความช่วยเหลือจากรัฐบาล มันก็เหมือนกับโลก Bitcoin ที่ไม่มีใครควบคุม ไม่มีตัวกลาง ทุกคนมีอิสระในการทำธุรกรรม โดยไม่ต้องขออนุญาตใคร

สังคมที่ดี คือ สังคมที่ให้อิสระกับปัจเจกชน

ให้แต่ละคนได้เลือกและรับผิดชอบชีวิตตัวเอง โดยไม่ต้องมีใครมาบังคับหรือชี้นำ

9. "Overhead 70% ไอ้สัส! Payload 30%"

พี่ชิตเปรียบเทียบ (ด่าแหละ) รัฐบาลเหมือนกับบริษัท ที่ดันมี Overhead (ค่าใช้จ่ายในการบริหารจัดการ) สูงถึง 70% ในขณะที่ Payload (งานที่ส่งมอบให้ประชาชนจริงๆ) มีเพียงแค่ 30%

คือ.. รัฐบาลเอาภาษีประชาชนไปใช้จ่ายกับอะไรก็ไม่รู้ (อาทิ.. เงินเดือนข้าราชการ ค่าดูงานต่างประเทศ ค่าจัดเลี้ยง ค่าสัมมนา ฯลฯ เต็มไปหมด) แต่ผลงานที่ประชาชนได้รับกลับน้อยนิด

แกเลยด่าว่า "ไอ้สัส!" ด้วยความฉุนเฉียว เพราะมันไม่สมเหตุสมผล ไม่คุ้มค่า และเป็นการเอาเปรียบประชาชนชัดๆ

พี่ชิตอยากให้รัฐบาล "Downsize" ลดขนาดองค์กร ลดค่าใช้จ่ายและเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพในการทำงาน เพื่อให้ Payload มันสูงขึ้น ประชาชนจะได้ประโยชน์มากขึ้น

รัฐบาลไม่ควรใหญ่เกินไป ไม่ควรเข้าไปยุ่งกับชีวิตประชาชนมากเกินไป ควรปล่อยให้ประชาชน "Take care yourself" จัดการตัวเอง

10. "เขาคุยเรื่อง "UBI, Universal Basic Income กันแล้ว, You own nothing but you'll be happy"

พี่ชิตพูดถึงกระแส UBI ที่กำลังมาแรง คือการที่รัฐบาลแจกเงินให้ประชาชนใช้ฟรีๆ ทุกเดือน แล้วก็มีคำพูดที่ว่า "คุณจะไม่มีอะไรเป็นของตัวเอง แต่คุณจะมีความสุข" ซึ่งแม่งโคตรย้อนแย้ง และโคตรอันตรายเลย

คือพี่ชิตมองว่า UBI มันเป็นแนวคิดสังคมนิยมสุดโต่งที่ทำให้คนขี้เกียจ ไม่ยอมพึ่งพาตัวเอง รอแต่เงินแจกจากรัฐบาล แล้วพอคนไม่ทำงาน ไม่สร้างมูลค่าเพิ่มให้กับสังคม เศรษฐกิจมันก็พังพินาศ

ส่วนประโยค "You own nothing but you'll be happy" แกมองว่าแม่งโคตรหลอกลวง

คือมึงจะไม่มีอะไรเป็นของตัวเองเลย ทุกอย่างเป็นของรัฐ แล้วมึงจะมีความสุขได้ยังไงวะ?

มันเหมือนอยู่ในคุก มีข้าวกิน มีที่นอน แต่ไม่มีอิสระ มึงจะมีความสุขหรอ?

พี่ชิตเชื่อในเสรีภาพ เชื่อในการพึ่งพาตัวเอง เชื่อในการสร้างเนื้อสร้างตัว ไม่ใช่รอเงินแจกจากรัฐบาล UBI มันเลยสวนทางกับแนวคิดของแกโดยสิ้นเชิง แล้วแกก็มองว่ามันเป็นภัยคุกคามต่อเสรีภาพของมนุษย์ด้วย

11. "ในขณะที่โลกฝักใฝ่ทางซ้าย แต่พวกมึงดันมุ่งไปทางขวา เพราะพวกมึงแม่งคือ Right Shift"

พี่ชิตแกหมายถึงโลกปัจจุบันกำลังไปทางซ้าย คือแนวคิดสังคมนิยม รัฐสวัสดิการ รัฐบาลใหญ่ ควบคุมทุกอย่าง แจกเงิน ฯลฯ

แต่พวก Bitcoiner หรือกลุ่มคนที่เชื่อในแนวคิดแบบเดียวกันกับแก ดันไปทางขวา ซึ่งก็คือแนวคิดเสรีนิยม เน้นความรับผิดชอบ พึ่งพาตัวเอง กระจายอำนาจ รัฐบาลเล็กลง

"Right Shift" ก็คือการเปลี่ยนทิศทาง จากซ้ายไปขวา จากการพึ่งพารัฐ ไปสู่การพึ่งพาตนเอง

นี่แหละ.. ชื่อนี้ (ชื่อเรา) จึงสอดคล้องกับแกนหลักของแนวคิดพี่ชิต ที่พยายามจะสื่อให้เห็นว่ามันมีอีกทางเลือกหนึ่งที่ไม่ใช่การพึ่งพารัฐบาล แต่เป็นการสร้างความมั่งคั่งและความเจริญรุ่งเรืองด้วยตัวเอง

12. "Right Shift, Take care yourself, Self Regulate, Decentralization นั่นคือ Right Shift"

"Right Shift" หรือการ "ขยับไปทางขวา" "มุ่งไปในทิศทางที่ถูกต้อง" ในความหมายของพี่ชิต มันก็คือ การดูแลตัวเอง (Take care yourself) การควบคุมตัวเอง (Self Regulate) และการกระจายอำนาจ (Decentralization) นั่นเอง

ทั้งหมดนี้มันเชื่อมโยงกัน คือ ถ้ามึงดูแลตัวเองได้ ควบคุมตัวเองได้ และเชื่อในการกระจายอำนาจ แทนที่จะพึ่งพารัฐบาล มึงก็จะก้าวไปสู่ "Right Shift" ได้

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13. "กบกำลังถูกต้มอยู่ในหม้อ มันต้องร้อนขึ้น"

นี่คือการเปรียบเปรยสถานการณ์ปัจจุบันที่หลายคนอาจไม่รู้ตัวว่ากำลังเผชิญกับปัญหาใหญ่กันอยู่

เหมือนกบที่ถูกต้มช้าๆ มันจะไม่รู้ตัวว่าน้ำกำลังร้อนขึ้นเรื่อยๆ จนสุดท้ายมันก็ตาย

ปัญหาต่างๆ เช่น เงินเฟ้อ ความเหลื่อมล้ำ ระบบราชการที่ไร้ประสิทธิภาพ มันก็ค่อยๆ ร้อนขึ้นเรื่อยๆ จนถึงจุดที่รับไม่ได้

พี่ชิตใช้ประโยคนี้เพื่อเตือนสติว่า.. อย่าได้ประมาท อย่าปล่อยให้ตัวเองถูกต้มจนตาย ต้องตระหนัก และหาทางออกก่อนที่มันจะสายเกินไป

14. "ลิงมันขายไอเดียไม่ได้"

เปรียบเทียบมนุษย์กับลิง เพื่อเน้นย้ำถึงความสามารถเฉพาะตัวของมนุษย์ในการสื่อสาร และโน้มน้าวใจผู้อื่น

ลิงอาจจะฉลาด แต่ก็สื่อสารหรือขายไอเดียไม่ได้เหมือนมนุษย์

มนุษย์มีความสามารถในการสร้างเรื่องราว สร้างแรงบันดาลใจ โน้มน้าวใจ เพื่อให้คนอื่นเชื่อและทำตาม

นี่แหละคือข้อได้เปรียบที่มนุษย์มีเหนือสัตว์อื่นๆ และเป็นสิ่งสำคัญในการขับเคลื่อนสังคม และโลกใบนี้

15. "เบียร์ไม่มีช้อยส์"

พี่ชิตพูดในบริบทที่หมายถึง.. บางครั้งในชีวิต เราก็ไม่มีทางเลือกหรือมีทางเลือกจำกัด

เหมือนเวลาเลือกดื่ม.. บางทีก็มีแค่เบียร์ให้เลือก ไม่มีอะไรอื่น มันก็ต้องดื่มเบียร์ไป

นั่นแหละ.. บางทีชีวิตเราก็เป็นแบบนั้น ต้องยอมรับ และเลือกสิ่งที่ดีที่สุดในสถานการณ์นั้นๆ ไปก่อน

16. "อเมริกาแอบแดกฟรีอยู่"

หมายถึงนโยบายต่างประเทศของอเมริกา ที่ใช้ดอลลาร์เป็นอาวุธ เพื่อรักษาอำนาจ และเอาเปรียบประเทศอื่นๆ

อเมริกาใช้ดอลลาร์เป็นเงินทุนสำรองโลก ทำให้ประเทศอื่นๆ ต้องพึ่งพาดอลลาร์ แล้วอเมริกาก็ใช้จุดนี้เป็นข้อได้เปรียบในการควบคุมเศรษฐกิจและการเมืองโลก

เหมือนกับการที่มึงมีของดี แล้วมึงก็บังคับให้คนอื่นต้องซื้อของมึง โดยที่มึงไม่ต้องลงทุนอะไรมากมาย

พี่ชิตแกมองว่า นี่คือการ "แอบแดกฟรี"

คือได้ประโยชน์มหาศาลโดยที่ไม่ต้องลงทุนและไม่คำนึงถึงผลกระทบต่อประเทศอื่นๆ เป็นการใช้ประโยชน์จากระบบที่ไม่เป็นธรรม

17. "กรรมที่อเมริกาต้องชดใช้"

ประโยคนี้พี่ชิตไม่ได้หมายความว่าอเมริกาจะต้องไปนรกหรืออะไรแบบนั้น.. แกใช้คำนี้ในบริบทของการวิเคราะห์ระบบเศรษฐกิจโลกและการกระจายอำนาจ

อเมริกาเคยใช้อำนาจของตัวเอง โดยเฉพาะ "ดอลลาร์" เพื่อครอบงำและเอาเปรียบประเทศอื่นๆ มานาน นั่นคือ "กรรม" ที่อเมริกาได้สร้างขึ้น

แต่ตอนนี้.. ระบบการเงินและอำนาจกำลังเปลี่ยนแปลง

Bitcoin กำลังมา ซึ่งเป็นระบบที่กระจายอำนาจ ไม่มีใครควบคุมได้ อเมริกาจึงกำลังเผชิญผลของการกระทำในอดีต นั่นคือ การสูญเสียอำนาจและอิทธิพล

นั่นแหละ "กรรม" ที่ต้องชดใช้

18. "มึงเป็นไก่ ไอ้สัส! ทำไมทำตัวเป็นกา เป็นปรสิต?"

"กา" และ "ปรสิต" คือพวกที่ไม่สร้างคุณค่าอะไรให้กับสังคม แต่ดันพึ่งพา เอาเปรียบคนอื่น เหมือนกาที่ขโมยกิน หรือปรสิตที่อาศัยดูดเลือดคนอื่นอยู่รอด

ส่วน "ไก่" ในที่นี้ หมายถึงคนที่สร้างคุณค่า ทำงานหาเลี้ยงชีพด้วยตัวเอง

พี่ชิตแกเลยอยากให้ทุกคนเป็นไก่ พึ่งพาตัวเอง สร้างคุณค่าให้กับสังคม อย่าไปเป็นภาระ หรือเอาเปรียบใคร

การเปรียบเที่ยบด้วยโควทนี้ก็เพื่อให้เราได้สติ ได้คิด มันเป็นการตักเตือนที่ค่อนข้างตรงไปตรงมา แต่ก็แฝงด้วยความหวังดี

อยากให้พวกเราพยายามเปลี่ยนแปลงตัวเองไปในทางที่ดีขึ้น

19. "โลกยังหมุนรอบตัวเองเลย"

นี่คือการตอกย้ำหลักการพื้นฐานของธรรมชาติ คือทุกอย่างต้องทำงาน ต้องสร้างคุณค่า เพื่อความอยู่รอด

พี่ชิตใช้ประโยคนี้ต่อจากการพูดถึงการพึ่งพาตัวเอง การสร้างคุณค่า การไม่เป็นภาระสังคม

จะเห็นว่าแกพยายามจะสื่อว่า การดำรงอยู่ไม่ใช่เรื่องง่าย ทุกอย่างแม่งต้องทำงาน ทุกอย่างแม่งต้องหมุนเวียน

เหมือนโลกที่ยังหมุนรอบตัวเองอยู่ทุกวันนี้ มนุษย์ก็เช่นกัน ต้องพึ่งพาตัวเอง สร้างคุณค่า เพื่อให้ตัวเองอยู่รอดได้ ไม่ใช่รอให้คนอื่นมาเลี้ยงดู

20. "กูเกลียดคำว่า Policy"

พี่ชิตไม่ได้เกลียดนโยบายโดยทั่วไป แต่แกเกลียด "Policy" ในบริบทของระบบราชการ ที่มันยุ่งยาก ซับซ้อน ไร้ประสิทธิภาพและมักไม่ตรงกับความต้องการของประชาชน

คือพี่ชิตมองว่า Policy ส่วนใหญ่ มันเป็นแค่ตัวหนังสือ เป็นแค่กฎเกณฑ์ที่สร้างขึ้นโดยคนกลุ่มเล็กๆ เพื่อที่จะควบคุมและบริหารจัดการคนส่วนใหญ่

แต่สุดท้าย.. มันกลับกลายเป็นอุปสรรค เป็นภาระ ที่ทำให้การทำงานต่างๆ ช้าลง ไม่คล่องตัว และเสียค่าใช้จ่ายมหาศาล

พี่ชิตเลยอยากเห็นระบบที่เรียบง่าย โปร่งใส ทุกคนมีส่วนร่วม ไม่ใช่ระบบที่ถูกควบคุมด้วย Policy ที่ยุ่งยาก และไร้ประสิทธิภาพ

21. "Democratize retail work"

พี่ชิตหมายถึง.. การกระจายงานให้คนมีส่วนร่วมมากขึ้น ไม่ใช่แค่ให้คนกลุ่มเดียว หรือองค์กรเดียว ทำ

ยกตัวอย่างเรื่องการจัดการผักตบชวา.. แทนที่จะให้รัฐบาลจัดการเอง ซึ่งใช้เวลา งบประมาณมหาศาลและประสิทธิภาพต่ำ แกเสนอให้กระจายงานออกไป ให้คนในชุมชนหรือคนที่มีความสามารถเข้ามาทำ โดยมีระบบตรวจสอบและให้รางวัลคนที่ทำงานได้ดี

แบบนี้มันจะทำให้ประสิทธิภาพสูงขึ้น ประหยัดงบประมาณและคนในชุมชนก็ได้มีส่วนร่วม สร้างความรับผิดชอบและความยั่งยืน

เป็นการเปลี่ยนจากระบบรวมศูนย์ ไปสู่ระบบกระจายอำนาจในเชิงปฏิบัติ

22. "นี่คือ Future of Work"

พี่ชิตมองว่า.. อนาคต การทำงานจะไม่ใช่การทำงานเพื่อนายจ้างหรือองค์กรใหญ่ๆ อีกต่อไป

แต่จะเป็นการทำงานแบบกระจายอำนาจ ทุกคนเป็นอิสระ รับผิดชอบงานของตัวเอง สร้างมูลค่าเพิ่มด้วยตัวเอง แล้วก็ได้รับผลตอบแทนตามความสามารถ

เหมือนกับ Bitcoin ที่มันไม่มีเจ้านาย ไม่มีคนกลาง ทุกคนมีส่วนร่วม ทุกคนได้ประโยชน์

23. "ชิดซ้าย เพื่อ Make a U-turn"

ชิดซ้าย แต่กูไม่ใช่ฝ่ายซ้าย! (ฮา) กูชิดซ้าย (นามสกุลซ้ายเกล้า) เพื่อเตรียมจะยูเทิร์นไปทางขวาโว้ย!

เอาจริงๆ นัยยะของพี่ชิตแกไม่ได้หมายถึงการขับรถ แต่เป็นการเปรียบเปรยถึงการเตรียมตัวก่อนเปลี่ยนแปลงครั้งใหญ่

ในบริบทของบทสนทนา มันหมายถึงการเตรียมตัวก่อนที่จะเปลี่ยนจากระบบเดิมๆ ที่เน้นการพึ่งพารัฐ ไปสู่ระบบใหม่ที่เน้นการพึ่งพาตนเอง การกระจายอำนาจ (Right Shift)

"ชิดซ้าย" จึงเป็นเหมือนการเตรียมตัว การวางแผน ก่อนที่จะ "Make a U-turn" หรือหักเลี้ยวเปลี่ยนไปสู่เส้นทางใหม่ ซึ่งก็คือการก้าวไปสู่โลกแบบ Decentralization นั่นเอง (คิดได้..)

24. "หลอกพวกมึงด้วยการสร้างกุศลบายให้มึงเชื่อในนรกสวรรค์"

พี่ชิตแกไม่ได้ต่อต้านศาสนาโดยตรง แต่แกกำลังวิจารณ์การใช้ศาสนาเป็นเครื่องมือควบคุมคน การใช้ความกลัว ความเชื่อเรื่องนรก-สวรรค์ มาบังคับ มาควบคุม มาชี้นำพฤติกรรมของคน โดยที่ไม่ได้เน้นเหตุผลหรือการลงมือทำจริง

มันเหมือนกับการใช้ "กุศโลบาย" หรือกลอุบาย มาหลอกลวง ให้คนเชื่อและทำตาม โดยที่ไม่ได้ให้ความรู้หรือสร้างความเข้าใจที่แท้จริง พี่ชิตแกอยากให้คนใช้เหตุผล ใช้ความรู้ และลงมือทำ ไม่ใช่แค่เชื่ออย่างงมงาย

25. "ถ้ามันจะเกิดในอีก 5 วัน พวกมึงจะไปทำอะไรได้?"

พี่ชิตเน้นย้ำถึงความรวดเร็วและความไม่แน่นอนของการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่อาจจะเกิดขึ้น โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งกับโอกาสที่จะเกิดขึ้นจาก Bitcoin

ซึ่งถ้าโอกาสดีๆ มันมาถึงเร็วมาก มึงจะเตรียมตัวทันมั้ย? มึงจะรับมือไหวมั้ย?

(ในบริบทของการสนทนาคือ หากทรัมป์ได้รับเลือกเป็น ปธณ. อเมริกา มีการคาดหมายว่าจะส่งผลดีต่อบิตคอยน์)

เอาจริงๆ มันเหมือนเป็นการเตือนสติว่า อย่าประมาท อย่าชะล่าใจ เพราะโอกาสอาจจะมาถึงเร็วกว่าที่คิด

ส่วนประโยค "ขายตูดซื้อไม่ทันเลย" ของอิสร

นี่คือมุขตลก ถ้ามึงไม่ทัน มึงก็จะเสียโอกาส เหมือนกับมึงต้องขายของมีค่า เพื่อเอาเงินไปซื้อ Bitcoin แต่ก็ยังไม่ทัน มันโคตรเสียดาย

แล้วคุณล่ะ..

อยากให้ใครได้เป็นประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐ?

26. "มันคือการเอาเงินคนอื่นไปทำบุญ"

พี่ชิตวิจารณ์นโยบายประชานิยม โดยเฉพาะการที่รัฐบาลเอาเงินภาษีของประชาชนไปแจก หรือไปทำโครงการต่างๆ โดยที่ไม่ได้รับความยินยอม หรือไม่ได้เกิดประโยชน์อย่างแท้จริงกับประชาชน

แกมองว่า.. มันก็เหมือนกับการที่รัฐบาลเอาเงินของประชาชนไป "ทำบุญ" โดยที่ประชาชนไม่ได้เป็นผู้ตัดสินใจว่าจะบริจาคเงินไปทำอะไร

มันเป็นการกระทำที่ไม่โปร่งใส และไม่เคารพสิทธิ์ของประชาชน

แกเน้นย้ำว่า การทำบุญหรือการใช้เงิน ควรมาจากความสมัครใจ ไม่ใช่การบังคับ หรือการใช้เงินโดยไม่คำนึงถึงความต้องการหรือประโยชน์ของผู้ที่ถูกใช้เงิน ไม่ใช่ตัวเองได้บุญ ได้หน้าอยู่คนเดียว แต่คนทั้งประเทศต้องมาคอยรับผิดชอบหนี้ร่วมกัน

จริงๆ แล้วในไลฟ์นี้มีประโยคเด็ดอีกมากมายจากพี่ชิตเต็มไปหมด ถือเสียว่าผมแค่เอาน้ำจิ้มบางส่วนมาให้ลองชิมก็แล้วกัน ถ้าจะเก็บให้ครบทั้งหมดควรต้องไปดูด้วยตัวเองครับ

สุดท้ายแล้ว "พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" มันคืออะไรแน่?

เอาง่ายๆ เลยนะ พี่ชิตแกเห็น Pain Point หลักๆ มาจาก 2 อย่างใหญ่ๆ คือ ระบบการเงินโลกที่บิดเบี้ยว และ ระบบการเมืองที่ล้าหลัง ซึ่งทั้งสองอย่างนี้เชื่อมโยงกันอย่างแยกไม่ออก

ระบบการเงินที่บิดเบี้ยว คือ รัฐบาลมีอำนาจควบคุมเงิน พิมพ์เงินมั่วซั่ว ทำให้เกิดเงินเฟ้อ ความเหลื่อมล้ำ คนจนยิ่งจน คนรวยยิ่งรวย

นี่แหละคือต้นตอของปัญหาสารพัด พี่ชิตเลยมองว่าต้องแก้ที่ระบบเงินก่อน ด้วย Bitcoin ที่เป็น Free Market Money อิสระจากรัฐบาล

ส่วน ระบบการเมืองที่ล้าหลัง คือ รัฐบาลใหญ่ แทรกแซงทุกอย่าง ประชาชนอ่อนแอ พึ่งพารัฐอย่างเดียว ไม่มีเสรีภาพ ไม่มีการกระจายอำนาจ

พี่ชิตเลยคิด "พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" ขึ้นมา ไม่ใช่พรรคการเมืองจริงๆ แต่เป็น Protocol หรือแนวคิด ที่จะ Empower ประชาชน ให้พึ่งพาตัวเอง มีเสรีภาพทางการเงินและมีส่วนร่วมในการกำหนดอนาคตของตัวเอง โดยใช้ Bitcoin เป็นเครื่องมือสำคัญ

ทำไมต้องปี 2575?

นี่น่าจะเป็นการตั้งเป้าหมายระยะยาวมากกว่า อาจจะหมายถึงช่วงเวลาที่ Bitcoin และแนวคิด Decentralization แพร่หลายมากพอ จนสามารถสร้างการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่แท้จริงได้

หรืออาจจะเป็นแค่การเปรียบเปรย เพราะการสร้างอะไรใหม่ๆ มันต้องใช้เวลา เหมือนการปลูกต้นไม้ กว่าจะโต กว่าจะออกผล มันต้องใช้เวลาหลายปี

การตั้งเป้าหมายไว้ที่ปี 2575 ก็อาจจะเป็นการสร้างแรงบันดาลใจและความหวังให้กับผู้คนก็ได้ ไม่ใช่เป้าหมายที่ตายตัวอะไรขนาดนั้น

(หรือไม่ก็ล้อไปกับเรื่องการปกครองที่เปลี่ยนแปลงมาตั้งแต่ปี 2475 แต่ก็ไม่พัฒนาไปถึงไหน ครบรอบ 100 ปีก็ควรจะ Change กันได้แล้ว)

ทั้งหมดนี้คือสิ่งที่พี่ชิตแกอยากจะสื่อ และเป็นแรงจูงใจที่ทำให้แกผุดแนวคิด "พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" (as a protocol) ขึ้นมานั่นเองครับ