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I feel fabulously free, I deleted TikTok. I am spending less time on my phone and more time developing Onboard60. I never expected to go from the Metaverse to A.I. healthcare and NFCC medical bracelets. I was on Vine, Twitter back in 2009… I went from 8 second nonsensical videos and funny tweets to diving deeper down any rabbit hole I ever imagined. In 2016, I heard a little noise about Bitcoin and I haven’t gotten off the rollercoaster of a merry go round yet. If you know, you know. I found Nostr awhile ago but I’m no maxi, I’m curious. I learned about different things pertaining to blockchain and cryptocurrency, social media and protocols. I kept journals of my fears and conferences I experienced and published them as my first years behind the scenes of a senior citizen diving deep into the unknowns. Someone had to tell me I was a senior citizen. I’m 64 now , that was four years ago. Since then I took a crazy idea and started Onboard60. I created a curriculum for myself. For years I have learned a variety of subjects. I took the basics and made a cliff note booklet - Web3 1101 for Seniors. I didn’t want to be left behind so I learned Spatial and created an auditorium, an art gallery and an office. It was my attempt to get senior citizens involved to connect with their grandkids in virtual reality like Roblox. Over the years, I’ve written articles on Substack sharing my journey, and sporadically posted on Zentaurios. I remember writing on YakiHonne when I first discovered it. Onboard60 has become more than what I ever thought it would be, as I started just sharing my journey in hopes others would join me. I hoped senior citizens would be interested in learning how to put their trust funds, H.O.A.s, POLSTs and other senior citizen documents on chain. The past four years, nothing until I speak of medical bracelets. I do not mention BitDoctor AI or mirrors that do body scans. Bracelets, I speak bracelets. The focus is to keep senior citizens up to date with new technologies that focus on improving their quality of life. Finding YakiHonne again is refreshing. The esthetics clean, seemless cross posting, and better options for posting. Soft landing. I have learned a lot over the years, experiencing this space becoming , watching protocols grow, some platforms fizzle, creating a new world isn’t easy. I’m enjoying being a mermaid in Monniverse community on Farcaster, not Farcaster itself but enjoy being a mermaid. Monniverse is a decentralized animation production company. I’m learning how to use the image generator and like the global reach. I have compromised on so many social media sites just to be on them. I still frequent Twitter Onboard60, and have my old Vine group on Instagram. I spend time on Lens mostly. I use traditional media to share Onboard60 - LinkedIn and YouTube for Onboard60. I am creating a digital replica of all the information, subjects, videos, content that I created as Onboard60. I hope to keep it updated as times goes forward. I’m going to use my guide to IRL events at Blockchain Miami in a few weeks, WAGMI MIAMI. After so many conferences and events, I had to write down a step by step how to get through these and follow up after. They can be overwhelming and I needed a way to decompress. My guide helps me. I seem to be rambling. I don’t have a purpose or any value to share with this article, I just wanted to share my thoughts for now, walking into 2025. Sandra ,Samm,Sababa Onboard60, founder

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Opening of *Raiders of the Lost Ark* might unfold from the perspective of a Hovitos warrior loyal to Belloq: --- The jungle was alive with whispers. Not the whispers of the wind through the trees or the calls of birds, but the urgent murmurs of my people. We had been tracking the strangers for hours, moving silently through the dense underbrush. They were outsiders, white men with strange tools and greed in their eyes, led by the arrogant one, Belloq. Belloq spoke our tongue, but his words were twisted, like vines choking the life from a tree. He promised power, gold, and glory—things our gods have no need for. Yet, he was clever, and his promises had lured some of our young ones to his side. We followed because the elders had commanded it. We would protect our sacred places, no matter the cost. When we reached the temple, I saw the other stranger—a different one. He moved like a hunter, careful and deliberate, his whip coiled at his side. Belloq called him “Dr. Jones,” though his name meant little to me. This one, I could tell, was not here for conquest but for knowledge, though the gods would not look kindly on his intrusion either. We watched from the shadows as the man descended into the temple. The jungle fell silent, save for the occasional murmur from Belloq as he waited, smug and assured. I did not like him, this Belloq. He spoke of the gods as if they were toys, things to be played with or controlled. But I obeyed the elders, so I stayed at his side, my spear in hand. Time dragged. When Jones emerged, the golden idol in his hands, I felt my heart tighten. He had survived the traps and claimed what should never have been touched. Belloq stepped forward then, his voice smooth as the river. He raised his hands, and Jones hesitated. The two exchanged words in the foreign tongue, their voices tense. And then it happened. Belloq betrayed him, of course. He always does. The idol was handed over, and Jones ran, chased by my brothers, though none could match his speed. Belloq turned to us, holding the golden figure high as if it were some great prize. I felt the weight of it then—not the gold itself but the burden of what had been disturbed. The jungle is patient, but its wrath is not. I knew the gods were watching, and their silence would not last. ---

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# Abstract In this article, we try to explain how deletion requests on the Nostr work, and how we can probably improve this using filters. ## NIP-09: Deletion Request As you know, we can request the election of an event that we own using a kind 5 event like the below based on nip-09: ```json { "kind": 5, "pubkey": "<32-bytes hex-encoded public key of the event creator>", "tags": [ ["e", "dcd59..464a2"], ["e", "968c5..ad7a4"], ["a", "<kind>:<pubkey>:<d-identifier>"], ["k", "1"], ["k", "30023"] ], "content": "these posts were published by accident", // other fields... } ``` There are 2 important limitations to this model: 1. We can't request a to delete huge amount of events with complex conditions in one request since it would result in an event with a lot of tags which may some relays even reject because of the number of tags. for example, you can think of deleting all of your reactions to the posts of one of your followings. 3. There is no guarantee for a kind 5 request to be executed by all relays and clients since they can keep a copy of events json forever. ## Deletion Using Filters Based on issues that we had with the old model used in nip-09 we tried to find different ways to fix them. Deletion using filter i is a new model that tries to fix the first issue. The third issue is still under research. Nostr utilizes a query model called `filter` to query events that can be checked and matched with an event and receive only 2 results that are matched and not matched. So, we can define a structure that can be matched with any number of events. We define a new tag called `filter` which contains a stringified Nostr filter. Using this tag, we construct a kind 5 event that requests the deletion of all events matching with that event. Here is an example: ```json { "kind": 5, "pubkey": "aca682c51c44c9046461de0cb34bcc6338d5562cdf9062aee9c3ca5a4ca0ab3c", "tags": [ ["filter", "{\n \"authors\": [\"aca682c51c44c9046461de0cb34bcc6338d5562cdf9062aee9c3ca5a4ca0ab3c\"],\n \"kinds\": [7],\n \"#p\": \"aca682c51c44c9046461de0cb34bcc6338d5562cdf9062aee9c3ca5a4ca0ab3c\",\n \"since\": 0,\n \"until\": 2147483647,\n}"] ], "content": "i don't want to be selfish anymore.", // other fields... } ``` In this example, [`aca682c51c44c9046461de0cb34bcc6338d5562cdf9062aee9c3ca5a4ca0ab3c`](https://njump.me/example@dezh.tech) public key requests to delete all of their reactions on their on events. Or using the example below, you can request account deletion: ```json { "kind": 5, "pubkey": "aca682c51c44c9046461de0cb34bcc6338d5562cdf9062aee9c3ca5a4ca0ab3c", "tags": [ ["filter", "{\n \"authors\": [\"aca682c51c44c9046461de0cb34bcc6338d5562cdf9062aee9c3ca5a4ca0ab3c\"],\n}"] ], "content": "use my new pubkey: cc6...a0a.", // other fields... } ``` ### Filter Limitations and Details Here is a list of limitations and considerations for those who are using the `filter` tag on kind 5: 1. `authors`: This field must be implicit and it MUST always contain one pubkey which is the pubkey of the deletion author. Some relays MAY accept multiple pubkeys from moderators events. (but it's RECOMMENDED for it to be applied from nip-86 management API, [gRPC API](https://docs.dezh.tech/docs/immortal/managment/apis), or anything used for managing relay.) 2. `limit`: This field MUST be ignored since the limit selection can be different in the relay/client internal system. 3. `search`: A relay **MAY** support NIP-50 `search` for this purpose. 4. `until/since`: These fields would be used instead of the event `created_at` for time. But relay MAY follow any of the below behaviors: 4.1. They only let pubkeys request the deletion of old events, not future events and consider the `since` field. 4.2 They MAY keep a list of deleted filters in a hashmap with `pubkey` as the key to check any incoming event with the filter and they can drop the filer once we pass the `until`. this would be an expensive action to accept kind 5 from all pubkeys, relays MAY charge some fee or require some amount of work to accept kind 5 in this case. Thanks [mike@mikedilger.com](https://njump.me/mike@mikedilger.com) for sharing his ideas on [this PR](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1509#issuecomment-2587967823). ### Uses cases Here is a small list of use cases for this model: 1. Account Deletion Request: a pubkey can request for deletion of their account. 2. Bulk Remove: Chat clients for example can support the selection of multiple messages and requests for deletion. 3. Force Limit: The Relays that keep the filter using the `until` field can be used by a pubkey to force the relay to not accept a specific event matching that filter for a specific time. ## Final Words This standard is currently in beta version, not merged in the [nips](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips) repo, and it is implemented and supported in the [Immortal](https://github.com/dezh-tech/immortal) relay. 1. [Open PR on NIPs](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1509). 2. [Example implementation in Golang](https://github.com/dezh-tech/immortal/pull/110).

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## **Warum Trump?** &#x20; **Die hierzulande völlig falsch vorhergesagten Ergebnisse bei der US-Wahl sowie die Regierungskrise in Deutschland** **stellt viele Menschen vor die Frage: wohin bewegen wir uns, was ist auf dieser Welt eigentlich los? Die Medien verlieren in nie gekanntem Ausmaß an Vertrauen und auch die Politiker können den Bürgern die Welt nicht mehr erklären, geschweige denn glaubhafte Lösungen aufzeigen.** Wie konnte es so weit kommen? Und wie kommen wir wieder dazu, miteinander zu reden und um Lösungen zu ringen anstatt die jeweils andere Seite zu verleumden und zu diskreditieren? Dieser Artikel beleuchtet die Situation aus der *Perspektive von Werteebenen und Weltbildern*. Ganz entscheidend dafür sind die Biografie und das Wertesystem der Menschen. Der amerikanische Wissenschaftler Clare Graves hat in den 80er Jahren diese unterschiedlichen Ebenen erstmals beschrieben und ein Modell dazu entwickelt (‹[S*piral Dynamics*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics)*›*, auch Bestandteil der *Integralen Theorie* von Ken Wilber). Das Modell beschreibt, wie sich Menschen und Gesellschaften im Lauf ihrer Entwicklung auf unterschiedlichen Werteebenen bewegen und wie eine Gruppe die andere kaum verstehen kann. Und hier liegt die Problematik unserer Gesellschaften: in den USA (ebenso wie in Europa) haben wir es parallel mit *drei sehr unterschiedlichen Wertesystemen und Weltbildern* zu tun, die sich heute immer stärker voneinander abgrenzen. Die aktuell erlebten drei Ebenen sind (in knapper Darstellung): **Die Ebene ‹Ordnung, Recht und Gesetz›**: Das Wichtigste ist, dass das Zusammenleben der Menschen durch einen klaren Ordnungsrahmen bestimmt wird. Fehlverhalten wird konsequent geahndet. Der Einzelne fühlt sich sicher, gemeinsam ist man stark. Die Freiheit des Einzelnen ist innerhalb des Rahmens von Gesetz und Ordnung garantiert. Das gemeinsam Erreichte ist wichtiger als das unbekannte Neue. Religion und Tradition spielen eine wichtige Rolle (politisch: rechts-konservativ). **Die Ebene ‹anything goes›**: Jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied, jeder kann erfolgreich sein, wenn er sich nur genügend anstrengt. Wettbewerb zwischen Menschen und Unternehmen prägt Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft; persönlicher Erfolg, Effizienz und Leistung sind treibende Kräfte, Selbstoptimierung wird zur Pflichtübung für viele. Technische Erfindungen erleichtern und verändern unser Leben, wirken sich aber auch auf das Ökosystem und den Planten aus. Religion und Tradition werden zu Gunsten der Wissenschaft getauscht (politisch: (neo-)liberal) **Die Ebene des ‹Pluralismus›**: Jeder und alles wird akzeptiert und hat ein Recht darauf, sein ‹Ding› zu leben. Der Einzelne übernimmt größere Verantwortung für sein Tun im Hinblick auf die Umwelt, Randgruppen, Ethik. Konsens geht vor Diskurs, Gefühle sind wichtiger als Rationalität. Gesetze und Struktur (z. B. Ländergrenzen) sind **‹old school**›, denn keiner möchte sich etwas vorschreiben lassen und wenn alle Menschen gleich sind, so braucht es keine Länder mehr. Es gibt *keine absolute Wahrheit*, jeder hat mit seiner eigenen (gefühlten) Wahrheit grundsätzlich recht. Man erlebt sich als moralisch höherstehend, *Political Correctness* oder *Wokeness* werden zu einer Art Religion (politisch: links-grün, Identitätspolitik). (Durch die Zuwanderung existieren noch weitere Ebenen, vor allem die Stammesebene mit dem *Wert der Ehre* an oberster Stelle, doch dies wird hier nicht weiter ausgeführt). So lange keine Existenzängste, keine Bedrohung von innen oder außen und keine größere Krise drohten konnten diese Ebenen zumeist gut nebeneinander existieren. Heute allerdings, da die scheinbaren und realen Bedrohungsszenarien permanent wachsen, prallen die unterschiedlichen Werte bei Wahlen, Parteiprogrammen und in den Medien mit Wucht aufeinander. Verstärkt wird die Problematik dadurch, dass sich die Anhänger des Pluralismus auf einer höheren moralischen Ebene wähnen, was sie scheinbar berechtigt, mit den anderen jeden Dialog verweigern. Hierbei erleben wir einen fundamentalen Widerspruch, denn während die Ebene des Pluralismus einerseits behauptet, dass es *keine absoluten Wahrheiten gibt, halten sie gleichzeitig ihr eigenes Weltbild und ihre Werte für unumstößlich wahr*. Dieser Widerspruch wird allerdings nicht bemerkt und macht Diskussionen deshalb umso schwieriger bis unmöglich. Während vor gut 100 Jahren die Verantwortungsmoral wesentlich höher gewichtet wurde als die Gesinnungsmoral hat sich dieses Verhältnis heute radikal verkehrt. Der US-Wahlkampf seitens der ‹Demokraten› hat auch gezeigt, wie Menschen mit anderen Werten von den sogenannten Eliten verachtet werden. Sie wurden als *Abgehängte*, \*\*‹\*\**Basket of deplorables›* (Hillary Clinton) oder *‹Müll›* (Biden) bezeichnet. Dabei sind es genau diese Menschen, die durch ihre Arbeit die Versorgung des Landes sicherstellen. Trump hat die unnachahmliche Fähigkeit, diese Menschen anzusprechen und ihnen ein Gefühl der Akzeptanz und Wertschätzung zu geben, obwohl er Milliardär ist. Gerade bei jungen Männern konnte er punkten, da diese die permanenten Beleidigungen durch die *Woken* (‹toxische› Männlichkeit) und deren Umerziehungsversuche leid sind. Das Modell der Werteebenen, *Spiral Dynamics*, kennt allerdings noch eine weitere Entwicklung, die *Integrale Ebene*, die auch in der Integralen Theorie von Ken Wilber eine bedeutsame Rolle spielt. Sie ist diejenige Ebene, der es gelingt, die jeweilige Berechtigung der anderen Ebenen zu erkennen. So ist *‹Ordnung, Recht und Gesetz›* dafür zuständig, das Bedürfnis der Menschen nach *Sicherheit* zu erfüllen. Sicherheit, genug zu essen zu haben, ein Dach über dem Kopf, eine verfügbare und bezahlbare Gesundheitsversorgung und natürlich körperliche Sicherheit, d. h. möglichst keinen Angriffen ausgesetzt zu werden. Die Ebene *‹anything goes›* erfüllt das Bedürfnis nach Individualität, nach persönlicher Freiheit, nach Unabhängigkeit von Institutionen und kirchlichen Vorschriften. Sie ermöglichte die großen Erfindungen, das enorme Wachstum des Wohlstands, aber auch der Ausbeutung des Planeten. Der Pluralismus erfüllt unser Bedürfnis nach Kooperation, nach größerer Verantwortung für Natur und Umwelt sowie nach Gleichberechtigung (nicht: Gleichstellung). Problematisch dabei ist, dass jede Ebene die anderen ablehnt, entweder, weil sie nicht verstanden oder für bereits überwunden gehalten werden. Dabei hat jede – wie beschrieben – ihre Berechtigung. Erst die *Integrale Ebene* erkennt dies und kann die jeweiligen Werte *wert*schätzen. Dazu kommt, dass sich hier eine neue Spiritualität entwickeln kann, die ein Bewusstseinswachstum mit sich bringt. Weg von den institutionalisierten Kirchen, hin zu einer individuellen Suche und Erkenntnis. Denn gerade die *anything-goes-Ebene* hat mit ihrem Konzept von Wissenschaft den GEIST aus der Materie verbannt, was letztlich auch zu dem überbordenden Materialismus geführt hat, den wir seit den 60er-Jahren beobachten können. *Spiral Dynamics* beschreibt diese Werteebenen als Antworten von Gesellschaften auf die herrschenden Umweltbedingungen. Während der überwiegenden Zeit der Menschheitsgeschichte waren Gesellschaften hinsichtlich ihrer Werte homogen. Der Übergang von einer zur anderen Ebene dauerte mehrere Generationen. Heute haben wir *erstmals in der Geschichte* die Situation, dass drei und mehr Ebenen gleichzeitig innerhalb einer Gesellschaft existieren. Dies erklärt anschaulich, woher das fundamentale Nichtverstehen ganzer Bevölkerungsgruppen herrührt. Der Übergang von einer Ebene zur nächsten kann nicht erzwungen werden, er erfolgt auf Grund der persönlichen Lebensumgebung. Das erklärt zum Beispiel die Unterschiede zwischen Stadt und Land, zwischen den Generationen oder Studenten aus bestimmten Fachrichtungen verglichen mit Menschen aus produzierenden Berufen. Dazu kommt, dass niemand ausschließlich in einer einzigen Werteeben zuhause ist, vielmehr gibt es Überschneidungen. Kommt es jedoch zu kritischen Situationen, so sucht man diejenige Ebene auf, die die größte Sicherheit verspricht. In der Politik kommt noch eine besondere Zutat hinzu: *der unbedingte Wille zur Macht*. Das Ergebnis ist eine fundamentale Spaltung der Gesellschaft, wie in den USA zwischen Trump- und Harris-Anhängern zu beobachten oder in Deutschland, Österreich, Frankreich, Holland u. a. Ländern zwischen Anhängern linker und rechter Parteien. Die Anhänger des anderen Lagers sind dann wahlweise gefährliche Idioten, linksgrün versifft, Populisten, Rassisten oder gleich Nazis. **Der Spaltpilz besteht aus dem Unverständnis (und der Nicht-Akzeptanz) für andere Menschen und deren Weltverständnis, gepaart mit dem Machtwillen der Politiker.** Problematisch im ‹Wertewesten› ist fast überall die mediale Berichterstattung, die das Werteverständnis von *deutlich weniger als 50% der Bevölkerung* zur Grundlage hat, da sie primär durch Menschen erfolgt, die sich als *Pluralisten* sehen (politisch links-grün). Statt möglichst objektiv zu berichten haben sie den Anspruch, auf den anderen, größeren Teil der Bevölkerung *erzieherisch einzuwirken*. Doch die großen Medienhäuser sind heute keine Gatekeeper mehr. Schon seit Jahren haben sie nicht mehr die Hoheit darüber, was die Menschen in welcher Form und mit welcher Interpretation erfahren sollen. Das Internet hat hier etwas fundamental Neues bewirkt: die Empfänger konnten erstmals zu Sendern werden! Einzelne (Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson), Gruppen, alternative Medien bauten sich Reichweiten auf, mit welchen sie zu den Etablierten direkt in Wettbewerb treten. Und oft sogar eine höhere Glaubwürdigkeit genießen. Damit ist *erstmals seit Menschengedenken* das Meinungs- und Interpretationsmonopol der Mächtigen in großem Stil durchbrochen. Die Angst der Eliten kann man täglich beobachten, wenn die neu geschaffenen Zensurgesetze gegen unliebsame Meinungen zum Einsatz kommen (Digital Service Act). Hier spielt die EU eine Vorreiterrolle und Deutschland meldet mit Abstand die meisten Fälle von ‹Hass und Hetze› an die Meldestellen. Dies wird noch viel massivere Formen annehmen, siehe die EU-Gesetzgebung, die ‹Trusted Flagger› oder zum Beispiel die Verhaftung des telegram Gründers Pavel Durov zur Erpressung der Zusammenarbeit. Eine Gegenbewegung im Sinne freier Meinungsäußerung stellt dagegen X.com (twitter) dar, weshalb Elon Musk für einige nun zum [Staatsfeind Nr. 2](https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/elon-musk-staatsfeind-nummer-zwei-a-19071f99-5099-4e2a-aa87-c7a17ab9c046) (nach Trump) ‹aufstieg›, s. Spiegel. Der Wahlausgang in den USA gibt Anlass zur Hoffnung, dass die Zensurpolitik künftig nicht weiter verschärft werden wird. **Die Menschen wehren sich** Die größten politischen Schockereignisse im letzten Jahrzehnt waren die Wahl Trumps 2016 und nun erneut 2024 sowie der Brexit (Abstimmung 2016). Wie konnte es dazu kommen, obwohl nach übereinstimmenden Analysen 90% der Medien für die [Gegenseite](https://de.statista.com/infografik/9524/tenor-der-berichterstattung-ueber-donald-trump/) geschrieben und gesendet hatten? Die hier beschriebenen Zusammenhänge machen klar, dass ein immer größer werdender Teil der Bevölkerung Medien und Politik von ihrer Lebenswirklichkeit abgekoppelt erleben, deren Ziele kaum noch Gemeinsamkeiten haben mit den Bedürfnissen großer Teile der Gesellschaft. Eine bittere Desillusionierung ist die Folge: die Erkenntnis, dass die Demokratie aufgehört hat zu funktionieren und durch eine Oligarchie abgelöst wurde (laut [Studie der Princeton University](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/princeton-experts-say-us-no-longer-democracy) für die USA). Die immer größere Schere zwischen den superreichen 0,1 Prozent und dem Rest vertiefen bei den Wählern den Graben zu ‹denen in Washington› oder ‹denen in Berlin›. Und deshalb entschieden sich nun in den USA zig Millionen Menschen dafür, auf keinen Fall ein ‹Weiter-so‹ zu wählen. Und Trump war damals geschickt und ist es heute wieder: er verspricht Stärke, Sicherheit, ‹Make America great again›. Also Werte aus der Ebene ‹*Ordnung, Recht und Gesetz*›: wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung, weniger Immigranten, das Recht auf Waffenbesitz. Aber auch Menschen, die ihre Individualität schätzen wählten Trump, denn er verspricht – zusammen mit Elon Musk – weniger Zensur, technische Innovationen, volle Akzeptanz von Bitcoin. Werte aus der Ebene ‹anything-goes›. Damit erreicht er die Mehrheit der Menschen aus zwei Ebenen, während Harris mit den Schwerpunkten Identitätspolitik, Weiter-so und Wokismus nur eine der drei Ebenen erreichen konnte.  **Und in Deutschland?** In Deutschland existieren ebenfalls die beschriebenen drei Werteebenen. Und gleichzeitig gibt es große Unterschiede zu den USA. Das Nummer-eins-Ziel der USA ist es *die größte Nation der Welt zu sein* und damit implizit alles zu tun, um diesen Status aufrecht zu erhalten. Das betrifft die Geopolitik, das Militär, das Finanzwesen, die Kulturproduktion, die Digitalindustrie, die Medien. Das ist so ziemlich das Gegenteil deutschen innen- und außenpolitischen Verständnisses. Und wo in den USA das Prinzip des ‹the winner gets it all› dominiert, gab es in Deutschland lange Zeit die weitgehend gut funktionierende Soziale Markwirtschaft. Ein weiterer großer Unterschied: während in den USA lange Zeit die *Linken* die Erzfeinde der Nation waren („alles Kommunisten“) und es nach *rechts* kaum Grenzen gibt ist es in Deutschland exakt umgekehrt. Durch Instrumentalisierung der historischen Schuld wird alles, was nur im Entferntesten als *national* bezeichnet werden könnte, in die Verdammnis *rechts=Nazi* geworfen. Damit wird nationales Eigeninteresse, das für jede Regierung handlungsleitend sein sollte, in die no-go Area verschoben! Diese politische No-go Area in Deutschland liegt nun aber genau in den *Werteebenen großer Bevölkerungsteile*. Und hier zeigt sich die aktuelle Problematik: Statt dass verschiedene politische Richtungen im echten Diskurs um die beste Lösung feilschen, besteht die Taktik ausschließlich darin, das verminte Gebiet des *Nicht-Diskutierbaren* ([Overton Window](https://www.zerohedge.com/political/overton-window-shift-towards-liberty")) immer weiter auszudehnen. Kampfbegriffe wie\*\*\*\* *Populisten*, *‹Rechte›* (was ja eine weit verbreitete\*\*\*\* und notwendige politische Richtung darstellt, jedenfalls in allen anderen demokratischen Ländern) oder sogar *‹Nazi›* führen dazu, dass **kein einziges Thema – und sei es noch so wichtig – auf der Sachebene diskutiert werden kann.** Die Betrachtung der Werteebenen stellt natürlich nur einen Ausschnitt dar aus der komplexen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Realität. Dennoch vermag sie zu mehr Verständnis der aktuellen Verhältnisse verhelfen. Was hier nicht betrachtet wurde ist die Ausbeutung der Bedürfnisse von Menschen speziell aus der Gruppe *Pluralismus*. Ihr Wunsch nach Gleichberechtigung und Schutz von Umwelt und Klima wird von sehr mächtigen Gruppen und Personen dazu missbraucht, bestimmte Themen voranzutreiben (Abschaffung von: Nationen, Geschlechtsidentität, Heimatbezug, gemeinsamer Kultur u. a.), unter Einsatz extremer Manipulationstechniken. Dazu mehr in einem eigenen Beitrag. *Die Wahl Trumps wird die Deutungshoheit der Staats- und Konzernmedien weiter schwächen*. In den USA vertrauen ihnen weniger als [30% der Menschen](https://www.zerohedge.com/political/great-news-americans-trust-mass-media-hits-all-time-low), in Deutschland noch immerhin [knapp die Hälfte](https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2024/germany). Doch was hilft uns diese Erkenntnis? Viel interessanter ist die Frage, was jeder einzelne tun kann in dieser verfahrenen Situation. **Wie können wir daran mitwirken, dass die Gräben nicht tiefer, die Verachtung für die jeweils andere Seite nicht größer wird?** Dieser Beitrag erschien ebenfalls bei Radio München >> [hier anhören](https://www.radiomuenchen.net/de/podcast-archiv/sendeformate/2014-10-28-15-17-59/2747-werte-warum-trum-von-thomas-eisinger.html?highlight=WyJlaXNpbmdlciJd) Oder direkt hier: [https://soundcloud.com/radiomuenchen/werte-warum-trump-von-thomas-eisinger](https://soundcloud.com/radiomuenchen/werte-warum-trump-von-thomas-eisinger?utm_source=clipboard\&utm_medium=text\&utm_campaign=social_sharing)

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The Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) is a cornerstone of modern financial theory. It suggests that markets are so good at processing information that asset prices reflect all available data at any given moment. According to this theory, it is nearly impossible to consistently "beat the market" through strategies based on publicly available information, as the market price already incorporates it. The EMH can be categorized into three levels of efficiency: 1. Weak Form Efficiency: Prices reflect all historical price and volume data. 2. Semi-Strong Form Efficiency: Prices reflect all publicly available information, such as news, earnings, and economic data. 3. Strong Form Efficiency: Prices reflect all information, both public and private, including insider knowledge. While there is ongoing debate about the extent to which markets are truly efficient, the EMH helps explain how financial systems evolve to allocate resources toward the most efficient and reliable assets. --- What Does Efficiency Mean for Markets? In practical terms, efficiency means that markets naturally favor assets that perform the job of "money" or "store of value" better than alternatives. An efficient market rewards assets that are: Reliable: Stable in terms of supply and value over time. Accessible: Easily transferred and exchanged with minimal friction. Secure: Resistant to loss or manipulation. Predictable: Free from arbitrary external interference or inflationary policies. When applied to money and investments, market efficiency drives a gradual move toward assets that better fulfill these criteria. This is where Bitcoin enters the picture. --- Why Bitcoin Fits the Criteria for Efficiency Bitcoin is fundamentally different from fiat currencies like dollars, euros, or yen. It is not controlled by any central authority, government, or corporation. Instead, it operates on a decentralized, transparent network governed by unchangeable rules coded into its system. This unique setup gives Bitcoin characteristics that align strongly with market efficiency: 1. Fixed Supply and Predictability Unlike fiat currencies, which can be printed in unlimited quantities by central banks, Bitcoin has a hard cap of 21 million coins. This makes it immune to inflation caused by excessive money printing—a common issue with fiat currencies. Markets tend to favor assets with predictable supply, as it allows for better long-term planning and investment. 2. Global Accessibility Bitcoin can be sent and received anywhere in the world without relying on banks or financial intermediaries. This level of accessibility makes it far more efficient than traditional systems, where cross-border transactions often involve delays, fees, and exchange rate fluctuations. 3. Security and Decentralization Bitcoin's decentralized network ensures that no single entity can control or manipulate it. Transactions are verified by a global network of computers, making it one of the most secure financial systems ever created. This resilience appeals to markets looking for stability and reliability. 4. Efficiency in Value Transfer Traditional financial systems rely on a chain of intermediaries, each adding costs and delays to transactions. Bitcoin operates on a peer-to-peer basis, allowing value to be transferred directly between parties with minimal fees and no intermediaries. Over time, this efficiency reduces friction in the global economy. --- Why Markets May Gravitate Toward Bitcoin If markets are truly efficient, they will naturally gravitate toward assets that best serve the needs of participants. Bitcoin's unique combination of scarcity, security, accessibility, and efficiency positions it as a strong contender for this role. Here’s why: 1. Store of Value: Just as gold has historically been a trusted store of value due to its scarcity, Bitcoin offers a digital alternative with even greater predictability and portability. 2. Hedge Against Inflation: With central banks around the world printing money at unprecedented rates, Bitcoin provides a way to protect wealth from the erosion of purchasing power caused by inflation. 3. Global Asset: Bitcoin is not tied to any specific country or economy. It functions as a truly global asset, making it an attractive option in an increasingly interconnected world. --- A Transition, Not a Revolution For those accustomed to fiat currencies, the idea of Bitcoin replacing traditional money may seem far-fetched. But history shows that markets evolve over time to adopt superior systems. Gold gave way to fiat currencies as global economies expanded and required more flexibility. Bitcoin, in turn, offers a solution for the digital age—a system that combines the best properties of money with the efficiencies of modern technology. This doesn't mean Bitcoin will replace fiat overnight. Instead, it suggests that over time, markets will allocate more resources toward Bitcoin as its advantages become clearer. As more individuals and institutions adopt it, Bitcoin's role in the financial system will grow, reflecting its status as an efficient and reliable asset. --- Conclusion: Bitcoin and Market Efficiency The Efficient Markets Hypothesis tells us that markets are driven by information and efficiency. Bitcoin, with its fixed supply, decentralization, and global accessibility, embodies these principles better than traditional fiat systems. While the journey toward widespread adoption may take time, the market’s natural inclination toward efficiency suggests that Bitcoin could play an increasingly central role in the global economy. It’s not just a technological innovation—it’s a reflection of what happens when markets seek the most efficient tools to meet their needs.

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I listened to Natalie Brunell's Coin Stories recently released pod with Jeff Booth last night and am once again finding myself having to develop new thinking about the world and specifically about how this world will look in the future (built upon/in the Bitcoin System).....and I gotta just say - I like what I come up with! I feel like it takes a lot to recognize that the "System" we all currently live in/on is just that....a system we built, that allows us to communicate with each other in a manner that is conducive to not just our continued existence but that actually allows us to flourish and grow as a species/organism.... Maybe this is where some of Jason Lowery's "Softwar" comes into the mix for me as well....but if we really get out of our heads....and drop our ego's....and recognize that we are nothing but animals attempting to live on a this planet that we just happen to be on...then I think it becomes a little easier to think about the "Systems" we have built for ourselves and how we can change them.... This is the beauty of what Bitcoin is....isn't it? It is a program/protocol that was written, which enables us to communicate with each other in a manner that is decentralized, secure, and open to all of us. Which allows us to verify the information being communicated as being tied to real energy/output of the sender. Hence allowing us to "send" that energy/output to the future through space with minimal data/value loss, which (as we measure from our old system) looks like it is actually becoming more valuable when in reality it is simply not being "stolen" or "taxed" or "corrupted" at the rates of everything else we have built to date to communicate value to each other. When I look at Bitcoin in this manner - it makes me so....so....so....bullish and hopeful about the future. It allows me to realize that we will get to a much better spot within our world....we are winning.... All succesful systems built upon/within the Bitcoin System - simply are better than all things built upon/within FIAT systems....and this isn't to say that those systems were not valuable....as they got us to where we are today....it is simply to say that those same systems....when they are de-FIAT-ized and are instead built with Bitcoin as their underlying base protocol layer....will be better. They simpy will be more fair, more respectful, more forward thinking than most things we currently have. And in case you are thinking...I don't believe it, or this guy is off his rocker....or no way Bitcoin changes "human behavior" or greed.... Think about this.... I am building a business, accepting Bitcoin in which I share in future price appreciation of Bitcoin with my customers.... This is a system that is better because of Bitcoin - I can do it because of Bitcoin....and if I can do it....why can't you? Why can't every major business out there? (They can't because their focus is based within the wrong system) but.... as more people like me, build their businesses on Bitcoin and their focus shifts to measuring their success from the Bitcoin eco-system....we will continue to grow and succeed and work with each other in a more cooperative manner vs. being extractive and predatory. Stay humble and Stack sats! originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/849657

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I viewed the Rams as a sleeper heading into the playoffs with a young, aggressive front, a top coach and a Hall of Fame level quarterback, so I was pleased to see them roll last night. The other issue I had was I traded away Sam Darnold in my QB-flex (we’re adding the position for 2025) RotoWire Dynasty League for Aaron Rodgers (because Darnold and Patrick Mahomes had the same bye), and I was aghast to see Darnold go crazy in the second half of the year. That and my long-standing (and thus-far validated) view that then Giants GM (widely hated by midwit stat dorks) Dave “The Gettlechad” Gettleman made the right pick with Saquon Barkley at 1.2 over Darnold. (Obviously Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson would have been much better picks, but most of those turbo-nerds thought they were projects and would have surely gone with Darnold (or maybe even Josh Rosen.) So to see Darnold have such a great year, though so did Saquon, albeit at a lesser position, was disconcerting. If the Vikings win in Detroit last week and make a Super Bowl, let alone win it, so much of my Darnold mockery is undone. (Realize Darnold is seven-years into his career on a fourth team, but still.) But the Darnold of the Jets I know and love reared his head the last two weeks, and especially in this game. Even the announcers were killing him for holding the ball so long it was like the spirit of Danny Dimes was playing through him. So this result was gratifying both for the Dynasty League — Darnold is no longer a locked-in starter next year wherever he winds up, and even if he gets the shot, the leash will be much shorter, and the environment will be much worse — and also the Barkley-Darnold comparison. I would love to see the Eagles win the Super Bowl on Barkley’s back, as he runs for 200 yards and gets the game MVP. (I actually think the Eagles might lose this week to the Rams, but whatever.) It might sound petty to be cheering on Darnold’s demise for a $50 entry fee league and an old argument only I still care about, but NFL football is a zero-sum game. If Darnold can’t hack it someone else gets a shot. If he can hack it, someone else is blocked. It’s not better or worse for it to be Darnold or someone else. And Darnold played well enough this year, he’ll almost certainly get another shot even if he isn’t viewed as the Vikings franchise going forward. It also makes you wonder how much of Kirk Cousins was the favorable environment too. - Stafford is as good a pocket passer as anyone in the league. He knows when to get rid of it, he checks it down when he needs to and he has good awareness in the pocket. It would be awfully rough if the Rams make it to Detroit for the conference title game, and Stafford takes down the best team they’ve ever had. - The Rams really took Justin Jefferson out of the game. It was a smart gameplan against the Vikings, but getting so much pressure also helped, even if they got a big assist from Darnold. - The Vikings ran the ball too much in the second half. I get it with the pass rush getting after Darnold, but every time they handed it to Aaron Jones it was time off the clock they couldn’t afford. - The Rams kept mixing in pass plays even with a big lead. I like this — they didn’t go into a shell, and getting first downs runs clock better than three-and-outs. - Remember the Rams also beat the Bills this year. Playing in Philly will be tough conditions, and the Eagles defense is good, but this is a very live dog.

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# **Hackathon 总结** [Hack49](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/hack49-2024)汇聚开发者创造了42个创新项目来解决全球挑战。该活动于10月19日至10月21日举行，鼓励参与者开发在废物管理、医疗错误以及隐私和数据保护方面的解决方案。值得注意的提交项目包括提升医院安全的集成系统、数据安全平台以及可持续废物处理技术。参与者以最多四人为一组或独立工作，通过GitHub仓库和demo视频展示他们的工作。 大奖获得者除了获得额外的现金奖励、3D打印机和导师指导机会外，还获得主题奖项。项目评选在每个主题内单独进行，每个类别中的前三名均获得奖励。在NeuroTech领域表现突出的作品获得特别认可，获奖者获得技术套件以便进一步探索。 Hack49的协作环境得到了行业专家、导师和评委的支持，促进了思想交流和创新。这一全球运动旨在激发具有现实世界影响的技术解决方案，强调解决关键社会挑战的承诺。 # **Hackathon 获奖者** ### **Medical Errors Prize Winners** - [TickleSense](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17817): 一种在手术中进行实时神经监测的非侵入性解决方案，利用EEG数据和神经网络实现超过92%的准确率。它包括一个提供实时反馈的web应用程序，可无缝集成到手术室中。 - [ALI](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17822): 一款通过分析语音模式来改善老年痴呆症检测的AI驱动工具，提供移动应用程序进行持续的认知健康监测，旨在减少诊断错误。 - [Surge Stitch](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17827): 一种自动缝合系统，使用一种非侵入性的“皮肤外胶合绳”技术来增强伤口闭合精度，从而显著减少手术并发症和恢复时间。 ### **Privacy Prize Winners** - [Olach](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17821): 一款以隐私为中心的笔记应用程序，将数据存储在本地，并计划通过AES加密和可选的云备份来增强安全性。 - [SafeSearchAI](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17836): 一种AI驱动的搜索引擎，专注于隐私，利用K-匿名和AI增强搜索结果来提供安全的浏览体验。 - [FishAlert](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17845): 一种实时诈骗检测工具，提供语音到文本转换和AI生成的回复，以提高通话时的在线安全性。 ### **Waste Management Prize Winners** - [Hydroscan](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17809): 一种基于物联网的水污染监测系统，使用传感器和基于云的平台进行实时水质评估和早期污染检测。 - [FixFinder](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17823): 一种社区驱动的电子废物解决方案，使用AI诊断手机问题，通过本地市场促进维修以减少环境影响。 - [Greenify](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17829): 一款AI驱动的应用程序，通过图像分析提供环保餐食替代方案，鼓励可持续饮食习惯。 ### **Overall Prize Winners** - Hydroscan - TickleSense - ALI ### **NeuroTech Prize Winners** - TickleSense - ALI - [Baseline](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17834): 一种神经技术工具，通过EEG数据监测外科医生的疲劳，并提供实时警报以提高手术环境中的性能和安全性。 访问[此链接](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/hack49-2024/buidl)查看所有项目。 # **关于组织者** ### **Hack49 Global** Hack49 Global致力于培养一个全球性的建设者社区。该组织因其协作倡议而闻名，强调科技领域内的包容性和创新性。通过支持开发者、工程师和技术爱好者的重要项目和活动，Hack49 Global推进赋能全球创造者的使命。组织通过一个强大的知识共享和联网平台，始终站在技术进步和协作的前沿。欲获得更多信息，请访问他们的[网站](https://www.hack49.com/)。

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# **Hackathon 总结** [LazyHacks 2024](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/lazyhacks) hackathon 是由高中生为同龄人组织的一次活动，聚焦于“懒惰”这一独特主题，以激发创造力和合作精神。该活动吸引了开发者参与，共提交了21个项目。团队由1-4名高中生组成，不包括组织者或导师，但允许外部建议以提升项目成果。 参与者在多个奖项类别中竞争。总体奖项包括 AULA 机械键盘、鼠标和 COCONISE 游戏麦克风。教育类奖项为 Rocketbooks 及附赠的笔和国家美术馆门票。居家类别奖项提供多功能床头灯和 Room Escape Ottawa 门票，初学者奖项为 JBL Go 4 扬声器。 评判标准侧重于创新和问题解决，与活动主题一致。LazyHacks 2024 成功促进了年轻开发者间的协作，鼓励趣味和奇思妙想，同时增强社区意识。hackathon 为年轻人才展示技术解决方案和创新项目提供了平台。 # **Hackathon 获奖者** LazyHacks 2024 展示了以简化日常生活为中心的多样创新项目。高中生展现了在各个类别的技能，并通过以下奖项得到了认可： ### **Overall Prize Winners** - [Slay In A Snap](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20533): 一款时尚科技应用，通过机器学习和图像遮罩提供虚拟衣橱和服装可视化，推进可持续性。同时关注于慎重的时尚选择和包容性，尽管遇到技术挑战。 ### **Beginner Prize Winners** - [Sloth Clock](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20519): 一款提高生产力的工具，利用虚拟宠物，结合番茄钟、待办事项清单和日历功能，通过维护宠物健康促进任务完成。 ### **Education Prize Winners** - [T2M (Talk 2 Me)](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20535): 通过语音命令简化 AI 互动，将语音转换为文本，使用 Gemini AI API，并支持多种编程语言以实现有效的用户参与。 ### **At-Home Prize Winners** - [LazyReps](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20521): 通过 Movenet Single Pose Lightning Model 追踪健身房重复动作以提高效率，并使用 Google Sheets API 进行数据记录。该项目使用 React.js 和 FastAPI 开发。 欲了解所有项目的全面情况，请访问 [LazyHacks Buidl](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/lazyhacks/buidl)。 # **关于组织者** ### **LazyHacks** LazyHacks 是一个以“懒惰”为主题的 hackathon，由高中生为同龄人策划。它倡导创造力、创新和协作，鼓励一种共享和放松的心态。自诞生以来，LazyHacks 有效地将年轻思想聚集在一起，其口号为“Hack Smarter, Not Harder!” 强调团队合作和创新问题解决。该项目为参与者展示技术开发技能提供了平台，同时激励未来创新者挑战规范并探索科技领域的新理念。欲了解更多信息，请访问 [lazyhacks.ca](https://www.lazyhacks.ca/)。

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# **Hackathon Summary** [Hack49](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/hack49-2024) hosted developers who created 42 innovative projects addressing global challenges. The event, held from October 19 to October 21, encouraged participants to develop solutions in waste management, medical errors, and privacy and data protection. Notable submissions included integrated systems for enhancing hospital safety, data security platforms, and sustainable waste processing technologies. Participants formed teams of up to four or worked individually, presenting their work through GitHub repositories and demo videos. The grand prize winners were awarded additional cash bonuses, 3D printers, and mentorship opportunities, alongside theme-specific awards. Projects were evaluated separately within each theme, with the top three entries in each category receiving awards. Special recognition was given to outstanding work in the NeuroTech field, with winners receiving technology kits for further exploration. Hack49's collaborative environment was supported by industry experts, mentors, and judges, facilitating idea exchange and fostering innovation. This global movement aimed to inspire technological solutions with real-world impacts, underscoring a commitment to addressing critical societal challenges. # **Hackathon Winners** ### **Medical Errors Prize Winners** - [TickleSense](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17817): A non-invasive solution for real-time nerve monitoring during surgeries, utilizing EEG data and neural networks to achieve over 92% accuracy. It includes a web app for real-time feedback and seamless integration in operating rooms. - [ALI](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17822): An AI-driven tool improving Alzheimer's detection through speech pattern analysis, offering a mobile app for ongoing cognitive health monitoring to reduce diagnostic errors. - [Surge Stitch](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17827): An automated suturing system utilizing a non-invasive "on-skin gluing strings" technique to enhance wound closure precision, significantly reducing surgical complications and recovery times. ### **Privacy Prize Winners** - [Olach](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17821): A privacy-centric note-taking app that stores data locally and plans to enhance security with AES encryption and an optional cloud backup. - [SafeSearchAI](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17836): An AI-powered search engine focusing on privacy, employing K-anonymity and AI-enhanced search results for secure browsing experiences. - [FishAlert](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17845): A real-time scam detection tool offering speech-to-text conversion and AI-generated responses to enhance online safety during calls. ### **Waste Management Prize Winners** - [Hydroscan](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17809): An IoT-based water pollution monitoring system using sensors and cloud-based platforms for real-time water quality assessments and early pollution detection. - [FixFinder](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17823): A community-driven e-waste solution with AI diagnostics for smartphone issues, promoting repairs through a local marketplace to reduce environmental impact. - [Greenify](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17829): An AI-driven application that provides eco-friendly meal alternatives via image analysis, encouraging sustainable eating habits. ### **Overall Prize Winners** - Hydroscan - TickleSense - ALI ### **NeuroTech Prize Winners** - TickleSense - ALI - [Baseline](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/17834): A neurotechnology tool monitoring surgeon fatigue through EEG data, providing real-time alerts to enhance performance and safety in surgical environments. Visit [this link](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/hack49-2024/buidl) to explore all projects. # **About the Organizer** ### **Hack49 Global** Hack49 Global is committed to fostering a worldwide community of builders. Known for its collaborative initiatives, the organization emphasizes inclusivity and innovation within the tech space. By supporting developers, engineers, and technology enthusiasts through significant projects and events, Hack49 Global advances its mission to empower creators globally. The organization remains at the forefront of technological progress and collaboration through a strong platform for knowledge sharing and networking. For more information, visit their [website](https://www.hack49.com/).

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I started my move back to Russia in 2019, when my son was born. I understood that I didn’t want to live in Canada because of what was happening there. And while some of my acquaintances stayed to fight the fight or moved out temporarily to acquire knowledge, capital, and strength to eventually come back and make Canada great again, I didn’t particularly feel doing it because I wasn’t born in the country and didn’t grow too attached to it. I don’t generally grow attached to things anyway. Russia was an obvious choice because I was born there, I have some family and friends there, and I assumed it wouldn’t take me long to adjust quickly. My Latin American wife, my son, and I were warmly met by my mother in the old small city where I grew up (2 hours away from Moscow) and accommodated in a house that was actually mine on paper. So we had a place to live right away, which was good. Our own water well, a gas tank to power the stove. We only had to pay for electricity, the internet, and snow cleaning in winter. I bought a car to move us around, and our Russian life started. I won’t spend time here describing the material side of life in Russia as I did that in my previous article. Straight to business. And business was what I wanted to do, and preferably something not connected to bitcoin brokerage — for that, I’d have to live in Moscow. So I started looking for opportunities and experimenting. As usual, I hated overthinking and preferred to act. ## Virgin Lands As I was fully consumed by the idea of building a “citadel” at the time, the first thing I did was purchase land. It was initially 9 hectares and has now grown into ~30 hectares (~74 acres). It was basically virgin lands far enough for anybody to bother me but close enough to a federal highway to be able to get anywhere quickly. Right away, I decided that we would build our paradise and live there. There was no master plan, of course. Just whatever I felt like. During the process, my opinions, plans, designs, and wants changed. The first couple of objects were a small farm compound where we would have pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep, bulls, and a cow. I wasn’t going to farm myself, so we hired a couple from Tajikistan to be our farmers and gardeners. But they had to live somewhere on the premises, so the next project was a little house for them. It only took a month because my construction crew was good at building wood-frame buildings. Finally, we started working on our own home. It turned out to be a fairly big stone house, though a little disharmoniously looking due to the lack of a proper project (again) and constant changes during construction. As soon as our house was ready, we moved to the village. It was exciting, and we liked the challenges that we were facing. There was a lot of room: both inside the house and outside. Living in a large house surrounded by vast land that is all yours is quite a feeling. You won’t get it in a city. But we were rarely alone: the farmers and the construction crew were with us almost daily. Farm animals made some noises, too.  ## The Farm Having our own farm was a great experience. Our own meat, eggs, milk, and everything that came with it — we tried it all. As I said, I’m no David Beckham, so I had people helping with those things as I wanted to do something else with my time instead of feeding, cleaning shit, milking, slaughtering, etc. The division of labor, you know. But even when labor was divided and people were paid and well taken care of, things were often done badly or not done at all. Workers changed or were replaced, but the quality of work wasn’t good: as soon as we stopped supervising or micromanaging, things would go awry. I must add that no Russian would take this job, so only immigrants from Central Asia were available. As time went by, I got pissed off more and more and really started valuing the work of professional farmers: it’s very difficult, and they deserve praise. In my mind, the division of labor had to go to the next level: actual farmers would produce food, and I would buy it from them. Dead simple, a lot cheaper, and way less headache. The result is that we have only chickens left at this point as they are the easiest to take care of (even children can do it), and it’s nice to collect 15-20 fresh eggs daily. No more farming!  ## Plants as a Business One of the construction guys, whose name is also Yuri, mentioned that his wife and he had experience growing and selling seedlings. They knew this trade almost from childhood but had to land to start with. I had land, but not much was going on there besides the aforementioned activities. That was a match! Fast forward to today, I have a plant nursery on my land managed by these two people. Yuri mostly stays on the premises and manages day-to-day operations while his wife does sales in the city. We started small-ish and have already worked for two seasons. The second season saw a 100% increase in sales, which tells me that the prospects for this business are good. Indeed, if you think about it, plant seedlings are always in demand: private gardeners, landscapers, and even the government needs them for its reforestation efforts. At this point, we do a little bit of everything, but I already want to niche down. Decorative plants seem like a good way to go because they can mostly be multiplied by cutting; no grafting is required (few people know how to do grafting properly) — fur-trees, pines, junipers, thujas, cedars, and some non-evergreen deco trees and bushes. The first several seasons we will mostly sustain ourselves by reselling, but my plan is to become a producer. That’s why we have already started working on our own planting material. In the future, we will need large professional gas-powered greenhouses, work stations, machinery, haul-truck driveways, etc. I never thought I’d be involved in a plant business, but here I am. It may take a few years before it becomes really profitable (for now, all receivables must go back into business), but I’m ready to wait and see it grow year by year. Low time preference.  ## Building Buildings As I was having my house built, I really got into the process. Seeing an empty plot of land and pile of bricks (in my case, concrete blocks) turn into a building that I can touch and later live in was a really good feeling. I had a crew and a bit of capital to play with, so why not try here, too? Well, there are reasons why not. As I mentioned, labor shortages are a problem. Good specialists are rare. While my core team was competent enough (they had built a lot in the past and had been recommended to me), we still had to hire additional help for routine tasks. And those were no good. Russia is now in turbulent times, so construction material prices were also growing like crazy. You can start with one rate and, by the end of the project, you understand that you aren’t likely to see the same prices again. As the central bank key rate continued rising, you could hardly rely on mortgage buyers to sell the project, so you had to wait for cash buyers, which made the sale process longer than I was ready to wait. Altogether, we built two houses: one stone and one wood-frame. I sold the first one and moved my mom to the second one. My mom is happy. I’m more experienced. No more construction!  ## Kinder Surprise! When the war started in February 2022, we got stuck in Mexico because all the flights were canceled. We had to spend an extra month vacationing. At the time, we were already thinking of what to do with the two children we had in terms of their pastime. We would only consider a good private kindergarten, but there were none in our city. So, either out of boredom or wanting to be first at something where we lived, we decided to open a private kindergarten. Our nanny, who had professional education and had worked in municipal kindergartens before, was excited about the idea. She ran the thing. We didn’t want to do everything from scratch, so I looked for a franchise. The search wasn’t long; I found one quickly. We signed the contract, and the process started. The commercial real estate market wasn’t that good in our city, so we leased a space that would later prove to be unfitting with an even less fitting owner. But we did our best to prepare it for the launch, and the franchise representative helped a lot. We operated for 1.5 years. Our children actually loved it, and so did the clients and their kids. Multiple reviewers called it the best kindergarten in the city, and it was objectively so. So what went wrong? Firstly, it was simply unprofitable. Our city is not that big, and not many people were willing or able to pay the fee. Our clients were mostly businessmen and people from Moscow who worked remotely (and earned Moscow salaries). In Moscow, such private nurseries are profitable because of virtually unlimited traffic. In our case, we had to fight for each client. Secondly, the business itself that the franchise sold us was in the grey area. In Russia, kindergartens have to get an educational license, and that involves a lot of bureaucracy (the one thing I hate the most). But the franchise had told us we didn’t need one; we just needed to carefully word our offer. It may have worked in some of their locations, but it wasn’t destined to work in ours. One day, the regional prosecutor’s office employees, along with members of other agencies, showed up with an unexpected inspection and did what such people do best. As a result of the inspection, we got some minor fine as well as a ruling that our business was illegal because it was unlicensed. For me personally, this was the last drop in the bucket, so I made the decision to shut down as fast and easily as I had previously decided to open. No more kindergarten!  ## Glamorous Camping The plant nursery, a successful venture so far, is located at the entrance of my plot and will likely spread all around as we develop it. But at the end, there’s a nice parcel adjacent to a forest. It’s somewhat remote and peaceful. When the war started, Russians found it hard to travel abroad, so they began exploring Russia itself, boosting internal tourism. I wanted to take advantage of it and dedicated the quiet parcel to a small glamping site. Glamping stands for “glamorous camping”: comfortable guest houses with all the amenities you’d find in a city apartment but located in nature. My master plan includes 5 guest houses of different sizes, a banya (Russian sauna), a BBQ area, a pond, a sports playground, and whatever else we can think of down the road. All of it surrounded and mixed with beautiful decorative plants that we grow ourselves. Well, that’s the plan. Right now, we have 3 guest houses, a banya, and a pond. And it works! Totally seasonal, of course, but when the season hits, there’s plenty of work. Looking forward to seeing how the place will turn out in 3-5 years. Yes to glamping!  ## Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop As you see, only 2 projects have proven to be the right choice. But I had to try. That’s how I roll: in my lone-wolf life, experience is my greatest teacher. No mentors or even idols to look up to, just my own desire to learn through radical action. What I wanted was to do something unrelated to bitcoin. I did. Now, I think I may need to go back to the industry I loved and still love. We are now in a warmer place since my Latin American wife can’t get used to the Russian winter. And who knows, we may stay here a bit longer than we thought. The Russian business is well taken care of; it can be managed remotely. As for me, I will take it easy for now, rest from chasing butterflies, and probably tend to my inner garden so that butterflies come to me on their own eventually. I can’t stop doing things, but I want to learn to do them differently this time. Onward!

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# **Hackathon Summary** The [LazyHacks 2024](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/lazyhacks) hackathon, organized by high school students for their peers, took place with a unique focus on the theme of "laziness" to inspire creativity and collaboration. The event brought together developers to submit 21 BUIDLs. Teams consisted of 1-4 high school students, with restrictions excluding organizers or mentors; however, external advice was permitted to enhance project outcomes. Participants competed for prizes across several categories. The overall prize included an AULA Mechanical Keyboard, Mouse, and COCONISE Gaming Microphone. The education prize featured Rocketbooks with additional pens and National Art Gallery tickets. An at-home category prize offered a Multi-use Bedside Lamp and Room Escape Ottawa tickets, and the beginner prize provided a JBL Go 4 Speaker. Judging criteria focused on innovation and problem-solving, aligning with the event's theme. LazyHacks 2024 successfully fostered collaborative efforts among young developers, encouraging both fun and ingenious solutions while promoting a community-oriented mindset. The hackathon served as a platform for young talent to present technological solutions and innovative projects. # **Hackathon Winners** LazyHacks 2024 showcased a variety of innovative projects centered around simplifying daily life through technology. High school participants displayed their skills across various categories, with notable achievements recognized through the following awards: ### **Overall Prize Winners** - [Slay In A Snap](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20533): A fashion-tech app promoting sustainability by providing a virtual wardrobe and outfit visualization through machine learning and image masking. Despite technical challenges, it stands out for mindful fashion and inclusivity. ### **Beginner Prize Winners** - [Sloth Clock](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20519): A productivity tool featuring a virtual pet, integrating Pomodoro, to-do list, and calendar functionalities to encourage task completion through pet health maintenance. ### **Education Prize Winners** - [T2M (Talk 2 Me)](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20535): Simplifies AI interaction via voice commands by converting speech to text, utilizing the Gemini AI API, and supporting multiple programming languages for effective user engagement. ### **At-Home Prize Winners** - [LazyReps](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/20521): A tool to improve gym efficiency by tracking repetitions with the Movenet Single Pose Lightning Model and using the Google Sheets API for data logging. It is developed using React.js and FastAPI. For a comprehensive view of all projects, visit [LazyHacks Buidl](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/lazyhacks/buidl). # **About the Organizer** ### **LazyHacks** LazyHacks is a hackathon emphasizing the theme of "laziness," organized by high schoolers for their peers. It promotes creativity, innovation, and collaboration, encouraging a shared, relaxed mindset. Since its inception, LazyHacks has effectively brought together young minds with the motto "Hack Smarter, Not Harder!" emphasizing teamwork and innovative problem-solving. The initiative provides a platform for participants to showcase their technological development skills while inspiring future innovators to challenge norms and explore new ideas within the tech space. For further information, visit [lazyhacks.ca](https://www.lazyhacks.ca/).

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#nostr #nostr_writer #review #beginner #obsidian #anytype #contract_drafting #agreenent_drafting #lawyer #law #contract #agreement #learn #education #plugin #telegram #wordpress #yakihonne #primal #damus ## How and Why I found Nostr? I teach contract drafting. That is [who I am](https://njump.me/npub1zrlr7uxqxnx3ppmsee2ncw393m6qhpsk9msws2pgm04f6dyfeqgqysp2qj). To teach the subject I maintained few websites through self-hosted [Wordpress](https://wordpress.org). I faced numerous challenges despite spending money on hosting, domain and whatnot. I do not have any technical background. So, you can understand my frustration when my websites kept disappearing due to hacking. I always put a brave face and started afresh. I used Microsoft Word, Power Point, and Obsidian to draft my posts and lessons. So, I had some backups. Thankfully, I also did post some of the training sessions on my [youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@Contract_drafting). Checkout my previous post for link to the [Youtube Playlist](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUx4vOXTq5CyNPZjy0zk9z9BQdVJkqke_&si=iEBKBsaCOFgN26of). Since, I teach for free, every time my websites were hacked, it pained me to see the bad side of human race. I was not hurting anyone, spending my own money, still someone unknown to me, for whatever reasons, could stop my mission. I started empathising with the belief in the internet being dysfunctional and still being beyond reach of common man. Then I found some hope, when around a year or so earlier, I found [Anytype](https://anytype.io). A simple app, the everything app, which promises anonymity, security from data breach, and a promise to share ones thoughts publicly with the others soon via web. Although some of its features (e.g. option to self host) are little bit technical for me, I still have high hopes. It is similar to Obsidian, yet way more than that. I could use either [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) or [Anytype](https://anytype.io) for writing and publishing my data on web. So, I recently surrendered to the idea of using one of Obsidian's plugins to publish my content. These provide the option to publish your obsidian notes on web through sub-domain. One that I used before was [Obsius Plugin](https://github.com/jonstodle/obsius-obsidian-plugin). But, secretly I also wished want more. I wished to maintain my same anonymous profile I have on [Telegram](https://t.me/CONTRACT_DRAFTING). I have a dedicated student base on Telegram. So, I wanted them to easily find me or atleast my content on a new platform. I also wanted to stop spending more money, or at least save some by spending less. And, voila! I came across Nostr unexpectedly through [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) and found a Plugin [Nostr Writer](https://github.com/jamesmagoo/nostr-writer) by [James](https://github.com/jamesmagoo). I was looking for a simple method to host my blog posts and lessons on contract drafting. And, I found much more.... If you have some other compelling reasons, as Marc, do read his piece on why he is on Nostr - [Why I'm on Nostr?]([https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzph68s45y080zdd9g8sdacnd6kcd4ejpwrgcju2eghjq45y4f28n8qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qq8hw6re945k6tt0dckkummnw3eq7dj2z0](https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzph68s45y080zdd9g8sdacnd6kcd4ejpwrgcju2eghjq45y4f28n8qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qq8hw6re945k6tt0dckkummnw3eq7dj2z0)) ## What did I find? After going through the Nostr Writer](https://github.com/jamesmagoo/nostr-writer) documentation on Github, I searched for Nostr and found [NOSTR.COM](https://nostr.com). As expected, it took me some time to understand the concepts of Public and Private Keys, Clients, Relays and so on. But, within 2-3 days, I found that this was just a SMALL TIP of a HUGE ICEBERG, yet to be show it's full potential. My most sincere thank you to its creator, and to people who spend time explaining it and making it AWESOME. #### **NOSTR's CONCEPTS** If you want to READ ABOUT NOSTR's CONCEPTS, you can go through the following: 1. [Intro by Nostr's founder-FLATJAF](https://fiatjaf.com/nostr.html) 2. [NOSTR Website](https://nostr.com)] 3. [NOSTR Guide](https://nostr.how/en/what-is-nostr) I also went through almost each and every youtube video I could find on Nostr onboarding and much more. Although, these are very few, I found each one of them to be very useful. I have listed some of these below. #### Nostr Onboarding videos My most sincere thank you to each of the creators (), who took time to explain the onabording by various methods. 1. By Ares - [how to get started with Nostr on mobile](https://youtu.be/uwRvBXd0hGY) - 3 minutes approx 2. By Castig- [How to get started on Nostr](https://youtu.be/Czkv54pQfTI) - 7 minutes approx 3. By Max Demarco- [Create your Nostr Account- Beginnner Tutorial](https://youtu.be/kifwECtwjJQ) - 18 minutes approx 4. By Nostr World - [Nostr for Beginners w/ Derek Ross](https://youtu.be/NVm_jGdwTjQ) - 37 minutes approx 5. By 88 Sats Radio- [how to get started on Nostr](https://youtu.be/DOShMOgsCvg) - 48 minutes approx I suggest every beginner must watch all of these videos, create as many accounts you need, and do it until you understand the whole Idea. This is just the beginning of what to come. So, do not stop using Nostr. In fact refer to friends and family and ask them to join. #### **Bonus of Nostr** You can get paid in Bitcoins! Without spending a dime!! Yes, you read it correct. All you need to do is have a lighting wallet. I leave it to you explore for now. I am still reviewing the payment structure. So, I will write about how to use this feature later. Meanwhile I suggest, you go through [BTC Session's Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@BTCSessions) to learn more about bitcoins, wallets, zaps/sats, lighting, etc. #### What else do you need? Pretty much you have the basics if you did everything suggested above. If you have a question, you can ask someone within any of the Nostr Clients. ### NOSTR CLIENTS I am experimenting with following Nostr Clients (apps to read your notes, pictures, and long form content) on my apple devices on web. Damus Primal Yakihonne ### NOSTR APPSTORE You can find many more clients at [GetAlby's App Store](https://getalby.com/discover) [Nostr App Store 1](https://nostrapp.link) [Nostr App Store 2](https://nostrapps.com) So, Good luck to you and *Happy Nostring* **Only the Human Imagination is the limit of what you can do with Nostr** If you liked this article, share it with your friends.

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Once upon a time in a small town, there lived a little girl named Lily. Lily was a cheerful and playful child, but when it came to eating, she always made a fuss. Every mealtime turned into a challenge for her parents, as Lily would cry and make trouble, refusing to eat anything on her plate.  Her parents tried everything to make Lily enjoy her meals. They prepared delicious and colorful dishes, told her stories, and even played her favorite music. However, Lily remained stubborn and insisted on not eating. Days turned into weeks, and Lily's parents grew worried about her health. They took her to the doctor, hoping to find a solution. The doctor, a wise and friendly woman, suggested a magical idea to Lily. She told her about a special food fairy who would visit children when they ate their meals with a happy heart. Intrigued by the idea of a food fairy, Lily decided to give it a try. The next mealtime, instead of crying, she smiled and took a small bite. To her surprise, a tiny, glittering fairy appeared on her plate. The food fairy giggled and exclaimed, "Hooray! You're eating with joy!"  From that day forward, Lily embraced each meal with enthusiasm. The food fairy continued to visit, bringing a sprinkle of magic to every bite Lily took. Lily's parents were overjoyed to see their daughter enjoying her meals and growing stronger every day. The moral of the story is that eating is an essential part of growing up, and approaching it with a positive attitude makes it a delightful experience. So, children, remember to be like Lily and welcome your meals with a happy heart. You never know when the food fairy might pay you a visit!

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**Table Of Content** - The Timeless Appeal of Real Estate - Bitcoin: The Digital Gold - The Broader Investment Landscape: A Case Study of Instacart - Conclusion - FAQs In the dynamic realm of investments, the spotlight often shifts between various assets, each promising lucrative returns and stability. Recently, two contenders, real estate and Bitcoin, have been at the forefront of discussions. Both have their proponents and critics, making the choice between them a complex one. Drawing from the insights of Marcel Pechman on Episode 29 of Macro Markets, we aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of these two investment avenues. **The Timeless Appeal of Real Estate** Real estate, often referred to as 'brick and mortar', has been a cornerstone of wealth accumulation for centuries. Its tangible nature and the intrinsic value of land have made it a favorite among investors. **Stability Amidst Challenges** Despite facing headwinds like rising mortgage rates, which have led to stagnant demand, the real estate market remains resilient. The current average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage interest rate is 7.27%, causing a decline in both refinancing and home purchase applications. Yet, Pechman believes that the specter of inflation could push house prices upwards, offering potential gains for property owners. **Historical Reliability** Throughout history, especially during economic downturns, real estate, particularly urban residential properties, has proven to be a reliable store of value. Even when markets fluctuate, the intrinsic value of land and property often remains intact, providing a safety net for investors. **Bitcoin: The Digital Gold** Bitcoin, often dubbed as 'digital gold', has emerged as a revolutionary asset in the financial world. Its decentralized nature and potential for high returns have attracted a new generation of investors. **A New Kind of Reserve** Pechman highlights Bitcoin's potential to serve as a transparent reserve system. Unlike traditional currencies, Bitcoin can be used by banks and nations to issue digital assets backed by Bitcoin, without the need for a vast user base. This positions Bitcoin uniquely in the crypto space, differentiating it from other cryptocurrencies that rely heavily on user growth and transaction fees. **Transparency and Security** One of Bitcoin's standout features is its transparent ledger system, the blockchain. This ensures that all transactions are recorded and can be audited, offering a level of security and transparency that's hard to match. Compared to precious metals, which can pose auditing challenges, Bitcoin provides a clear and transparent store of value. **The Broader Investment Landscape: A Case Study of Instacart** To understand the broader shifts in the investment world, Pechman's analysis of Instacart's valuation is enlightening. The company's initial public offering was valued at around $10 billion, a significant drop from its peak valuation of $39 billion. This highlights the volatility and challenges in the venture capital space, suggesting a potential shift in investor priorities. **Seeking Reliability** The Instacart case underscores the importance of reliability in investments. In an uncertain economic climate, investors are increasingly looking for assets that offer stability and long-term growth, be it in traditional avenues like real estate or emerging ones like Bitcoin. **Conclusion** The tug-of-war between real estate and Bitcoin is bound to continue as both assets have their unique strengths. While real estate offers tangible value and historical reliability, Bitcoin promises transparency, security, and a new paradigm of financial operations. As the global economic landscape evolves, astute investors will likely find value in diversifying and including both these assets in their portfolios. **FAQs** **What makes Bitcoin a notable investment?** Bitcoin offers transparency, security, and the potential to serve as a transparent reserve system for banks and nations, positioning it uniquely in the crypto space. **What insights does the Instacart valuation provide?** Instacart's valuation highlights the challenges in the venture capital space and suggests a potential shift in investor priorities towards more reliable assets. **Is diversification between real estate and Bitcoin recommended?** While both assets have unique strengths, diversifying and including both in investment portfolios can offer a balanced approach in the evolving economic landscape. **Why is Bitcoin dubbed as 'digital gold'?** Due to its decentralized nature, potential for high returns, and its role as a store of value similar to gold, Bitcoin is often referred to as 'digital gold'. **That's all for today** **If you want more, be sure to follow us on:** **NOSTR: croxroad@getalby.com** **X: [@croxroadnews](https://x.com/croxroadnewsco)** **Instagram: [@croxroadnews.co](https://www.instagram.com/croxroadnews.co/)** **Youtube: [@croxroadnews](https://www.youtube.com/@croxroadnews)** **Store: https://croxroad.store** **Subscribe to CROX ROAD Bitcoin Only Daily Newsletter** **https://www.croxroad.co/subscribe** *DISCLAIMER: None of this is financial advice. 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In a world where homes are increasingly valued by their size and room types rather than their functionality and authenticity, it's time to rethink how we design and build houses. [A Pattern Language](https://www.patternlanguage.com/bookstore/pattern-language.html), written by Christopher Alexander in 1977, offers a timeless approach to architecture that prioritizes human needs and experiences. Architects and homeowners can use this classic work as a pre-fiat reference to learn about principles to create functional, authentic, and meaningful homes. The principles can be used to create homes that are worth HODLing. How would your grandmother use this space? [Muir,](https://muirstewart.com/) my favorite Scottish professor in architecture school, asked this question. Besides, have you boys ever seen a pint of Guinness Stout? In Alabama in the last century, a pint of Guinness did not exist, and the idea of writing your name in the head with a fountain pen to see it at the bottom of the glass was even before our time.  Planning spaces for how your grandmother used them sent us at Jones Pierce down the rabbit hole of designing for humans and not the current fashions of that day. This led my baby architect tribe to A Pattern Language, written in 1977, and [A Timeless Way of Building,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Timeless_Way_of_Building) written by Christopher Alexander in 1979. Alexander and graduate students researched and documented their projects over eight years to create Patterns that individuals and groups could use as a shared pattern language to design for themselves and their communities. A Pattern Language and the Timeless Way of Building were open source before there was open source. The books outline a process meant to be used by the people and groups designing their own spaces utilizing a collection of shared patterns combined to solve the design problem of their site, built for their unique needs. Now, I look back and wonder if the book's conception to enable people to design their own authentic spaces, neighborhoods, and towns was the self-design guide it was intended for or if it was a reaction to inflation that began to kick in in the early 70s. Were Alexander and the crew trying to provide a lifeline as housing products decreased in quality? You know how architects are…they probably thought the layperson did not know how to build meaningful spaces. Maybe when the erosion of fiat currency started, it was not allowing people to consider affording meaningful space. To prepare for the coming time when hard assets will once again enable people to build authentic architecture, it is worth reconsidering the Patterns used from a time before fiat. Interestingly, Pattern Language and the Timeless Way process use patterns to create personal architecture based on sound money. Structures are designed mindfully, developed organically, and built to last. In other words, *architecture on a bitcoin standard*. From my own professional experience working with clients, I have seen that, given a choice, people always choose the most interesting space that best aligns with their needs in the best community they want to afford. The patterns for design (from Pattern Language) are still relevant as a starting point to build with hard money assets again - bitcoin. These patterns are baked into our process of working with clients at Jones Pierce, and I want to share some of the relevant patterns from the book with my commentary on how they have evolved from the 70s until today to create homes worth HODLing. **Patterns for the Site** Analyzing the site and site patterns is the most critical first step for homes worth HODLing. We want to end the practice of "ready, aim, fire" - when the builder makes their well-considered opening move by calling the Grading Guy to clear a building site. Features came with your property as part of the price of the land; take a breath and figure out how to capture the most potential of your property to create a building site. These are some of the patterns essential to us: *104: Site repair* – Locate building sites on parts of the land in the worst conditions, not the best. Be a contrarian and locate a house on the edge of a flat spot to create quality outdoor spaces the house can open to. *105: South facing outdoors* – Locate buildings in a place to allow indoor/ outdoor transitions to happen to the south. If south is not possible, East works for morning outdoor spaces, and west works for afternoon spaces if you can protect the outdoor spaces from the heat. *112: Entrance transitions* – In The Pattern Language, this pattern is about an urban entrance oƯ the street into the building. We apply the pattern to capture the total use of properties. Define the entrance to the property to visually claim the space to use the entire front yard for your benefit and not just the HOA's. *134: Zen view* - Analyze the site for Zen view potential to orient windows and spaces to connect space beyond the house's walls visually. This pattern works well with site lighting to extend your night view beyond the window's glass. On more significant sites, we analyze for opinions and work out places to capture the money shot for essential rooms. We also think about creating smaller Zen-view moments that happen continuously while living in the house. Why not make a surprise view through a slot window when brushing your teeth? *168: Plan to connect buildings to the earth*—Use paths and gardens throughout the building to blur the line between the future building and gardens. To accomplish this blur, we study the site topography to ensure that the construction will not create an oversized kill zone caused by grading a house in the wrong spot. *177: Vegetable garden* – 1/40 acre per person for food production. It is even better when combined with *169 terraced slopes*, *170 fruit trees, 173 garden walls, 175 greenhouses,* and *178 compost.* When designing a custom home, the design thoughts extend to the property line. We like landscapes that have classic landscape organization with food production. Make your house a homestead to prepare for [The Mandibles, A Family, 2029 - 2047](https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/dp/006232828X) scenario if times get tough, or provide nutrient-dense food for your loved ones. **Patterns for the Building** We are attracted to patterns that provide a return on investment beyond money. How does a house footprint create outdoor space, have a rational roof plan, and let in natural light? Do the rooms function by following the sun around the house during the day? Can we use design to create a place to work, recover, entertain, and retreat? How can a house design allow an owner to transition through life phases in the same house? Can we save space and cost by function stacking to use the same space more than one way? Is there an opportunity to create rental income or a place to work on side gigs to convert more fiat to BTC? The following are some patterns we think about: *106: Positive outdoor space* - Use wings pattern 107 of light to create an L-shaped positive outdoor space. Designing homes that make outdoor spaces contrasts with building a square-shaped plan with a roof that does not relate to the plan we call a PILE… a pile of excrement, typically. *128: Indoor sunlight*—Morning beds, breakfast nook, kitchen, family and garden spaces, mid-day living spaces, and evening living, dining, and porch spaces. *136: Couples Realm*—Provide adult spaces away from kids' noise and access. Include a bed, sitting area, and dressing space in the Couple's realm. *141: A room of one's own*—Everyone in the house needs a personal space, such as an alcove, nook, or room. This is not on the appraisal sheet to determine value, but we ensure everyone, including kids, pets, and outside help, has a place to call their own. *143: Children's bed clusters* – Clustering beds happen for us in lake houses to let smaller houses sleep more guests. In a non-fiat house design, they can be a great way to save space if there is no bank to tell you there should be a certain number of bedrooms. Your kids may even grow to like each other by sharing a space. *146: Flexible workspace* – The patterns provided flexible workspace for working, which you could use for other uses when not working. For us, the pattern evolved to an idea of function stacking to provide additional uses. Space is expensive; use it twice. *153: Rooms to rent* – This is a function of asset architecture. Make some parts of the building rentable with outside entrances so the use of the space works flexibly either in the entire house or rentable. These spaces are also flexible, allowing uses for rentable accessory dwelling units (ADU), a teenager's cottage, boomerang kids, or multigenerational housing. *157: Maker's space* – Make a place in the home where hobbies and side gigs happen. Give the workshop a few hundred square feet off the street for owners to hang their shingles or rent to others. Some of our clients are first building “barndominiumns” to stage for construction and live on-site as construction on the main house happens. These spaces can become workspaces for personal use or rent after construction. *159: Light* – Light on two sides of every room. Some houses feel right when you walk in. We contend these spaces have windows on at least two walls. *163: Outdoor rooms*—Plan spaces beyond the building footprint to allow functions to flow indoors and outdoors. *181: The fire* – There is no substitute for places where fire and gathering happen, inside or out. *203: Child caves*—We like to create toy caves that become play spaces for young kids, trapping toys in the space rather than the living room. Adult caves are root cellars, wine cellars, or basement golf simulators. *204: Secret places*—The original pattern references a hidden place for precious objects and family history. We use this space for storm shelters, safe rooms, gun safes, and areas where precious stuff like your hardware wallet is hidden. **In Conclusion** Our architectural firm has stayed in touch with how quality homes are designed without fiat because our clients are older and mostly pay for projects with assets or cash. Our clients come to us as architects to help provide a non-cookie-cutter housing solution and are willing to pay for it, which we call architecture. Bitcoin may offer the opportunity for more people to build quality personal architecture backed by a sound money standard who can think longer term beyond the initial construction or sales price. More authentic architecture happened before fiat currency began, and the values were accepted when building with fiat. The values of the person on a personal BTC standard who wants or even needs to make a home to live in will wish for their home to be the best asset they can build to hold long-term value. We need to rethink house value to prepare for the opportunity to build with hard currency. The degrading products of the 50 years of fiat building may not be worth holding, nor store value on a bitcoin standard when we remove housing’s monetary premium. Architects can study past resources, like A Pattern Language, to help ourselves and clients remember what was important before fiat. In addition, we can develop new patterns to enhance the high-value design further. We chose clients willing to consider the house's total cost over time, not just the construction cost. We want clients to understand the opportunity that a well-considered home and spaces around the home can do for the quality of our lives, the people who will live in and experience the architecture for a long time, and the people who get to help create it. Our firm is working on organizing our process to service bitcoiners with less friction. We are creating a sister company to our 25-year-old firm focused on service products to help more people have a personal architecture in their lives. Our new company will operate on a Bitcoin standard to walk the walk so that we can compare the operation to our existing company. We believe the world is better when more people build things for the right reasons. We accept the mission to focus our work on creating houses worth HODLing. Bryan

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Trigger warning. Please have an open mind and I will open a perspective for you --- In this world, we are always told to follow our heart. Have you ever think deeply about this? You had your first love, didn’t you really love them? You defend them, you put them over your family. No mom he/she is not like that, you just don’t understand. And then you distance yourself from your mom, the person who gave you life. Your mom will tell you please take it slow, but you say no I love this person. This is the love of my life! Forty days later you cry because you got cheated on, and the only person that consoles you is your mom. What happened? I thought you loved that person? You gave everything, you love, and boom, you hate. Do you know why? Because you don’t know this verse: > *“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”* *> *Jeremiah 17:9 KJV* We are groomed by the prince of this world, satan, to follow our heart. This is why we are always volatile. Happy sad happy sad. This is why God records this verse in the Bible. He’s just like: “Hey guys, just so you know, this is your heart. You will never know it, so I record it here because I love you”. Sadly, we never read our Bible, so we don’t know the heart of God. And when we don’t know the heart of God, we can only trust our heart and we become easily deceived Let’s go deeper, what is the antithesis of God? Satan. What is satan’s objective? Deceive. How is he like? Cunning and deceitful. Does satan want you to kill? No. To hate? No. Satan just wants a lot of people to stay with him in hell when the world ends Aren’t you just walking around existing? You’re not striving, you’re not thriving, you’re just existing. Why? Because you trust your thoughts and feelings. Those that deceive you. Your problem isn’t empty or depression. Empty or depression doesn’t come from God. This is the characteristics of satan God compared our heart to the characteristics of satan. Satan is cunning and deceitful, we should never trust our heart because trusting your heart directly correlates with trusting and worshiping satan Satan never say worship me, satan says believe in yourself. Satan says worship yourself. Individualism, greed, pride, sloth, all deadly sins. Worship that! And when you follow that, you die

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คุณลุงโฉลกย้ำว่าความสงบสำคัญมาก ถ้าใจเราสงบ เราจะมองเห็นโอกาสและความเสี่ยงได้ชัดขึ้น การลงทุนด้วยความโลภหรือกลัวมักทำให้ผิดพลาด แต่ถ้าใจนิ่ง เราจะมีวินัย ทำตามแผนที่วางไว้ ไม่ตื่นตระหนกตอนตลาดผันผวนและยังมองเห็นภาพใหญ่ในระยะยาวได้ดีขึ้นอีกด้วย !(image)[https://image.nostr.build/28aaa1b47c8c27e094989c1a3cca9db095a560c320ea18402d101d068c8f304a.png] ลุงโฉลกบอกว่า ความสงบไม่ได้หมายถึงแค่นั่งเฉยๆ ไม่มีเสียงรบกวน แต่มันคือ "ความนิ่งของจิต" ที่ไม่มีเรื่องวุ่นวาย ไม่มีความอยาก หรือความกลัวมารบกวนใจ ลุงบอกว่าเราต้องอาศัย "ศีล สมาธิ และปัญญา" เพื่อให้จิตสงบจริงๆ การรักษาศีลแบบที่ลุงพูดถึง ไม่ใช่แค่ทำตามกันไปเรื่อย แต่ต้องเข้าใจด้วย เช่น การไม่ฆ่าสัตว์เพราะเรารู้ว่าทุกชีวิตก็มีค่าเหมือนกัน การทำแบบนี้จะทำให้ใจเราโล่งขึ้น สบายใจขึ้น แล้วพอใจสงบ จิตก็จะนิ่ง เมื่อจิตนิ่ง เราจะเห็นทุกอย่างชัดขึ้น เช่น อะไรควรทำ อะไรไม่ควรทำ นี่แหละที่จะนำเราไปสู่ปัญญา ลุงเล่าเรื่องการให้ทานเล็กๆ น้อยๆ เช่น การทำบุญ 108 บาท ว่าทำไมถึงสำคัญ เพราะมันทำให้เราเริ่มจากจุดเล็กๆ ที่ใจเราเป็นกุศล พอเราให้ ใจเราก็จะรู้สึก "โล่ง" และนี่แหละเป็นจุดเริ่มต้นของความสงบ บางคนถามว่า ถ้าไม่มีสมาธิมาตั้งแต่เกิดจะทำยังไง ลุงบอกว่า มันอาจจะมาจากกรรมเก่า แต่ไม่ได้แปลว่าแก้ไม่ได้ ทุกอย่างเริ่มได้จากวันนี้ ฝึกไปเรื่อยๆ เดี๋ยวก็ได้เอง ลุงบอกว่าความสงบไม่ใช่สิ่งที่ได้มาง่ายๆ มันต้องเริ่มจากสิ่งเล็กๆ ทำทีละนิด อย่างการให้ทาน การรักษาศีล หรือการทำสมาธิ ที่สำคัญคือความสงบไม่ใช่สิ่งที่ต้องไล่ล่า แต่เป็นสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นเมื่อเราหยุดวุ่นวายไปกับความโลภ ความโกรธ และความหลง แค่นี้ก็พอแล้วที่จะสงบจริงๆ #CDCTalk Ep.22 ไล่ล่าหาความสงบ #Siamstr

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Bitcoin is more than money, more than an asset, and more than a store of value. Bitcoin is a Prime Mover, an enabler and it ignites imaginations. It certainly fueled an idea in my mind. The idea integrates sensors, computational prowess, actuated machinery, power conversion, and electronic communications to form an autonomous, machined creature roaming forests and harvesting the most widespread and least energy-dense fuel source available. I call it the Forest Walker and it eats wood, and mines Bitcoin. I know what you're thinking. Why not just put Bitcoin mining rigs where they belong: in a hosted facility sporting electricity from energy-dense fuels like natural gas, climate-controlled with excellent data piping in and out? Why go to all the trouble building a robot that digests wood creating flammable gasses fueling an engine to run a generator powering Bitcoin miners? It's all about synergy. Bitcoin mining enables the realization of multiple, seemingly unrelated, yet useful activities. Activities considered un-profitable if not for Bitcoin as the Prime Mover. This is much more than simply mining the greatest asset ever conceived by humankind. It’s about the power of synergy, which Bitcoin plays only one of many roles. The synergy created by this system can stabilize forests' fire ecology while generating multiple income streams. That’s the realistic goal here and requires a brief history of American Forest management before continuing. # Smokey The Bear In 1944, the Smokey Bear Wildfire Prevention Campaign began in the United States. “Only YOU can prevent forest fires” remains the refrain of the Ad Council’s longest running campaign. The Ad Council is a U.S. non-profit set up by the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Association of National Advertisers in 1942. It would seem that the U.S. Department of the Interior was concerned about pesky forest fires and wanted them to stop. So, alongside a national policy of extreme fire suppression they enlisted the entire U.S. population to get onboard via the Ad Council and it worked. Forest fires were almost obliterated and everyone was happy, right? Wrong. Smokey is a fantastically successful bear so forest fires became so few for so long that the fuel load - dead wood - in forests has become very heavy. So heavy that when a fire happens (and they always happen) it destroys everything in its path because the more fuel there is the hotter that fire becomes. Trees, bushes, shrubs, and all other plant life cannot escape destruction (not to mention homes and businesses). The soil microbiology doesn’t escape either as it is burned away even in deeper soils. To add insult to injury, hydrophobic waxy residues condense on the soil surface, forcing water to travel over the ground rather than through it eroding forest soils. Good job, Smokey. Well done, Sir! Most terrestrial ecologies are “fire ecologies”. Fire is a part of these systems’ fuel load and pest management. Before we pretended to “manage” millions of acres of forest, fires raged over the world, rarely damaging forests. The fuel load was always too light to generate fires hot enough to moonscape mountainsides. Fires simply burned off the minor amounts of fuel accumulated since the fire before. The lighter heat, smoke, and other combustion gasses suppressed pests, keeping them in check and the smoke condensed into a plant growth accelerant called wood vinegar, not a waxy cap on the soil. These fires also cleared out weak undergrowth, cycled minerals, and thinned the forest canopy, allowing sunlight to penetrate to the forest floor. Without a fire’s heat, many pine tree species can’t sow their seed. The heat is required to open the cones (the seed bearing structure) of Spruce, Cypress, Sequoia, Jack Pine, Lodgepole Pine and many more. Without fire forests can’t have babies. The idea was to protect the forests, and it isn't working. So, in a world of fire, what does an ally look like and what does it do? # Meet The Forest Walker  For the Forest Walker to work as a mobile, autonomous unit, a solid platform that can carry several hundred pounds is required. It so happens this chassis already exists but shelved. Introducing the Legged Squad Support System (LS3). A joint project between Boston Dynamics, DARPA, and the United States Marine Corps, the quadrupedal robot is the size of a cow, can carry 400 pounds (180 kg) of equipment, negotiate challenging terrain, and operate for 24 hours before needing to refuel. Yes, it had an engine. Abandoned in 2015, the thing was too noisy for military deployment and maintenance "under fire" is never a high-quality idea. However, we can rebuild it to act as a platform for the Forest Walker; albeit with serious alterations. It would need to be bigger, probably. Carry more weight? Definitely. Maybe replace structural metal with carbon fiber and redesign much as 3D printable parts for more effective maintenance. The original system has a top operational speed of 8 miles per hour. For our purposes, it only needs to move about as fast as a grazing ruminant. Without the hammering vibrations of galloping into battle, shocks of exploding mortars, and drunken soldiers playing "Wrangler of Steel Machines", time between failures should be much longer and the overall energy consumption much lower. The LS3 is a solid platform to build upon. Now it just needs to be pulled out of the mothballs, and completely refitted with outboard equipment. # The Small Branch Chipper  When I say “Forest fuel load” I mean the dead, carbon containing litter on the forest floor. Duff (leaves), fine-woody debris (small branches), and coarse woody debris (logs) are the fuel that feeds forest fires. Walk through any forest in the United States today and you will see quite a lot of these materials. Too much, as I have described. Some of these fuel loads can be 8 tons per acre in pine and hardwood forests and up to 16 tons per acre at active logging sites. That’s some big wood and the more that collects, the more combustible danger to the forest it represents. It also provides a technically unlimited fuel supply for the Forest Walker system. The problem is that this detritus has to be chewed into pieces that are easily ingestible by the system for the gasification process (we’ll get to that step in a minute). What we need is a wood chipper attached to the chassis (the LS3); its “mouth”. A small wood chipper handling material up to 2.5 - 3.0 inches (6.3 - 7.6 cm) in diameter would eliminate a substantial amount of fuel. There is no reason for Forest Walker to remove fallen trees. It wouldn’t have to in order to make a real difference. It need only identify appropriately sized branches and grab them. Once loaded into the chipper’s intake hopper for further processing, the beast can immediately look for more “food”. This is essentially kindling that would help ignite larger logs. If it’s all consumed by Forest Walker, then it’s not present to promote an aggravated conflagration. I have glossed over an obvious question: How does Forest Walker see and identify branches and such? LiDaR (Light Detection and Ranging) attached to Forest Walker images the local area and feed those data to onboard computers for processing. Maybe AI plays a role. Maybe simple machine learning can do the trick. One thing is for certain: being able to identify a stick and cause robotic appendages to pick it up is not impossible. Great! We now have a quadrupedal robot autonomously identifying and “eating” dead branches and other light, combustible materials. Whilst strolling through the forest, depleting future fires of combustibles, Forest Walker has already performed a major function of this system: making the forest safer. It's time to convert this low-density fuel into a high-density fuel Forest Walker can leverage. Enter the gasification process. # The Gassifier  The gasifier is the heart of the entire system; it’s where low-density fuel becomes the high-density fuel that powers the entire system. Biochar and wood vinegar are process wastes and I’ll discuss why both are powerful soil amendments in a moment, but first, what’s gasification? Reacting shredded carbonaceous material at high temperatures in a low or no oxygen environment converts the biomass into biochar, wood vinegar, heat, and Synthesis Gas (Syngas). Syngas consists primarily of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane. All of which are extremely useful fuels in a gaseous state. Part of this gas is used to heat the input biomass and keep the reaction temperature constant while the internal combustion engine that drives the generator to produce electrical power consumes the rest. Critically, this gasification process is “continuous feed”. Forest Walker must intake biomass from the chipper, process it to fuel, and dump the waste (CO2, heat, biochar, and wood vinegar) continuously. It cannot stop. Everything about this system depends upon this continual grazing, digestion, and excretion of wastes just as a ruminal does. And, like a ruminant, all waste products enhance the local environment. When I first heard of gasification, I didn’t believe that it was real. Running an electric generator from burning wood seemed more akin to “conspiracy fantasy” than science. Not only is gasification real, it’s ancient technology. A man named Dean Clayton first started experiments on gasification in 1699 and in 1901 gasification was used to power a vehicle. By the end of World War II, there were 500,000 Syngas powered vehicles in Germany alone because of fossil fuel rationing during the war. The global gasification market was $480 billion in 2022 and projected to be as much as $700 billion by 2030 (Vantage Market Research). Gasification technology is the best choice to power the Forest Walker because it’s self-contained and we want its waste products. # Biochar: The Waste  Biochar (AKA agricultural charcoal) is fairly simple: it’s almost pure, solid carbon that resembles charcoal. Its porous nature packs large surface areas into small, 3 dimensional nuggets. Devoid of most other chemistry, like hydrocarbons (methane) and ash (minerals), biochar is extremely lightweight. Do not confuse it with the charcoal you buy for your grill. Biochar doesn’t make good grilling charcoal because it would burn too rapidly as it does not contain the multitude of flammable components that charcoal does. Biochar has several other good use cases. Water filtration, water retention, nutrient retention, providing habitat for microscopic soil organisms, and carbon sequestration are the main ones that we are concerned with here. Carbon has an amazing ability to adsorb (substances stick to and accumulate on the surface of an object) manifold chemistries. Water, nutrients, and pollutants tightly bind to carbon in this format. So, biochar makes a respectable filter and acts as a “battery” of water and nutrients in soils. Biochar adsorbs and holds on to seven times its weight in water. Soil containing biochar is more drought resilient than soil without it. Adsorbed nutrients, tightly sequestered alongside water, get released only as plants need them. Plants must excrete protons (H+) from their roots to disgorge water or positively charged nutrients from the biochar's surface; it's an active process. Biochar’s surface area (where adsorption happens) can be 500 square meters per gram or more. That is 10% larger than an official NBA basketball court for every gram of biochar. Biochar’s abundant surface area builds protective habitats for soil microbes like fungi and bacteria and many are critical for the health and productivity of the soil itself. The “carbon sequestration” component of biochar comes into play where “carbon credits” are concerned. There is a financial market for carbon. Not leveraging that market for revenue is foolish. I am climate agnostic. All I care about is that once solid carbon is inside the soil, it will stay there for thousands of years, imparting drought resiliency, fertility collection, nutrient buffering, and release for that time span. I simply want as much solid carbon in the soil because of the undeniably positive effects it has, regardless of any climactic considerations. # Wood Vinegar: More Waste  Another by-product of the gasification process is wood vinegar (Pyroligneous acid). If you have ever seen Liquid Smoke in the grocery store, then you have seen wood vinegar. Principally composed of acetic acid, acetone, and methanol wood vinegar also contains ~200 other organic compounds. It would seem intuitive that condensed, liquefied wood smoke would at least be bad for the health of all living things if not downright carcinogenic. The counter intuition wins the day, however. Wood vinegar has been used by humans for a very long time to promote digestion, bowel, and liver health; combat diarrhea and vomiting; calm peptic ulcers and regulate cholesterol levels; and a host of other benefits. For centuries humans have annually burned off hundreds of thousands of square miles of pasture, grassland, forest, and every other conceivable terrestrial ecosystem. Why is this done? After every burn, one thing becomes obvious: the almost supernatural growth these ecosystems exhibit after the burn. How? Wood vinegar is a component of this growth. Even in open burns, smoke condenses and infiltrates the soil. That is when wood vinegar shows its quality. This stuff beefs up not only general plant growth but seed germination as well and possesses many other qualities that are beneficial to plants. It’s a pesticide, fungicide, promotes beneficial soil microorganisms, enhances nutrient uptake, and imparts disease resistance. I am barely touching a long list of attributes here, but you want wood vinegar in your soil (alongside biochar because it adsorbs wood vinegar as well). # The Internal Combustion Engine  Conversion of grazed forage to chemical, then mechanical, and then electrical energy completes the cycle. The ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) converts the gaseous fuel output from the gasifier to mechanical energy, heat, water vapor, and CO2. It’s the mechanical energy of a rotating drive shaft that we want. That rotation drives the electric generator, which is the heartbeat we need to bring this monster to life. Luckily for us, combined internal combustion engine and generator packages are ubiquitous, delivering a defined energy output given a constant fuel input. It’s the simplest part of the system. The obvious question here is whether the amount of syngas provided by the gasification process will provide enough energy to generate enough electrons to run the entire system or not. While I have no doubt the energy produced will run Forest Walker's main systems the question is really about the electrons left over. Will it be enough to run the Bitcoin mining aspect of the system? Everything is a budget. # CO2 Production For Growth  Plants are lollipops. No matter if it’s a tree or a bush or a shrubbery, the entire thing is mostly sugar in various formats but mostly long chain carbohydrates like lignin and cellulose. Plants need three things to make sugar: CO2, H2O and light. In a forest, where tree densities can be quite high, CO2 availability becomes a limiting growth factor. It’d be in the forest interests to have more available CO2 providing for various sugar formation providing the organism with food and structure. An odd thing about tree leaves, the openings that allow gasses like the ever searched for CO2 are on the bottom of the leaf (these are called stomata). Not many stomata are topside. This suggests that trees and bushes have evolved to find gasses like CO2 from below, not above and this further suggests CO2 might be in higher concentrations nearer the soil. The soil life (bacterial, fungi etc.) is constantly producing enormous amounts of CO2 and it would stay in the soil forever (eventually killing the very soil life that produces it) if not for tidal forces. Water is everywhere and whether in pools, lakes, oceans or distributed in “moist” soils water moves towards to the moon. The water in the soil and also in the water tables below the soil rise toward the surface every day. When the water rises, it expels the accumulated gasses in the soil into the atmosphere and it’s mostly CO2. It’s a good bet on how leaves developed high populations of stomata on the underside of leaves. As the water relaxes (the tide goes out) it sucks oxygenated air back into the soil to continue the functions of soil life respiration. The soil “breathes” albeit slowly. The gasses produced by the Forest Walker’s internal combustion engine consist primarily of CO2 and H2O. Combusting sugars produce the same gasses that are needed to construct the sugars because the universe is funny like that. The Forest Walker is constantly laying down these critical construction elements right where the trees need them: close to the ground to be gobbled up by the trees. # The Branch Drones  During the last ice age, giant mammals populated North America - forests and otherwise. Mastodons, woolly mammoths, rhinos, short-faced bears, steppe bison, caribou, musk ox, giant beavers, camels, gigantic ground-dwelling sloths, glyptodons, and dire wolves were everywhere. Many were ten to fifteen feet tall. As they crashed through forests, they would effectively cleave off dead side-branches of trees, halting the spread of a ground-based fire migrating into the tree crown ("laddering") which is a death knell for a forest. These animals are all extinct now and forests no longer have any manner of pruning services. But, if we build drones fitted with cutting implements like saws and loppers, optical cameras and AI trained to discern dead branches from living ones, these drones could effectively take over pruning services by identifying, cutting, and dropping to the forest floor, dead branches. The dropped branches simply get collected by the Forest Walker as part of its continual mission. The drones dock on the back of the Forest Walker to recharge their batteries when low. The whole scene would look like a grazing cow with some flies bothering it. This activity breaks the link between a relatively cool ground based fire and the tree crowns and is a vital element in forest fire control. # The Bitcoin Miner  Mining is one of four monetary incentive models, making this system a possibility for development. The other three are US Dept. of the Interior, township, county, and electrical utility company easement contracts for fuel load management, global carbon credits trading, and data set sales. All the above depends on obvious questions getting answered. I will list some obvious ones, but this is not an engineering document and is not the place for spreadsheets. How much Bitcoin one Forest Walker can mine depends on everything else. What amount of biomass can we process? Will that biomass flow enough Syngas to keep the lights on? Can the chassis support enough mining ASICs and supporting infrastructure? What does that weigh and will it affect field performance? How much power can the AC generator produce? Other questions that are more philosophical persist. Even if a single Forest Walker can only mine scant amounts of BTC per day, that pales to how much fuel material it can process into biochar. We are talking about millions upon millions of forested acres in need of fuel load management. What can a single Forest Walker do? I am not thinking in singular terms. The Forest Walker must operate as a fleet. What could 50 do? 500? What is it worth providing a service to the world by managing forest fuel loads? Providing proof of work to the global monetary system? Seeding soil with drought and nutrient resilience by the excretion, over time, of carbon by the ton? What did the last forest fire cost? # The Mesh Network  What could be better than one bitcoin mining, carbon sequestering, forest fire squelching, soil amending behemoth? Thousands of them, but then they would need to be able to talk to each other to coordinate position, data handling, etc. Fitted with a mesh networking device, like goTenna or Meshtastic LoRa equipment enables each Forest Walker to communicate with each other. Now we have an interconnected fleet of Forest Walkers relaying data to each other and more importantly, aggregating all of that to the last link in the chain for uplink. Well, at least Bitcoin mining data. Since block data is lightweight, transmission of these data via mesh networking in fairly close quartered environs is more than doable. So, how does data transmit to the Bitcoin Network? How do the Forest Walkers get the previous block data necessary to execute on mining? # Back To The Chain  Getting Bitcoin block data to and from the network is the last puzzle piece. The standing presumption here is that wherever a Forest Walker fleet is operating, it is NOT within cell tower range. We further presume that the nearest Walmart Wi-Fi is hours away. Enter the Blockstream Satellite or something like it. A separate, ground-based drone will have two jobs: To stay as close to the nearest Forest Walker as it can and to provide an antennae for either terrestrial or orbital data uplink. Bitcoin-centric data is transmitted to the "uplink drone" via the mesh networked transmitters and then sent on to the uplink and the whole flow goes in the opposite direction as well; many to one and one to many. We cannot transmit data to the Blockstream satellite, and it will be up to Blockstream and companies like it to provide uplink capabilities in the future and I don't doubt they will. Starlink you say? What’s stopping that company from filtering out block data? Nothing because it’s Starlink’s system and they could decide to censor these data. It seems we may have a problem sending and receiving Bitcoin data in back country environs. But, then again, the utility of this system in staunching the fuel load that creates forest fires is extremely useful around forested communities and many have fiber, Wi-Fi and cell towers. These communities could be a welcoming ground zero for first deployments of the Forest Walker system by the home and business owners seeking fire repression. In the best way, Bitcoin subsidizes the safety of the communities. # Sensor Packages ### LiDaR  The benefit of having a Forest Walker fleet strolling through the forest is the never ending opportunity for data gathering. A plethora of deployable sensors gathering hyper-accurate data on everything from temperature to topography is yet another revenue generator. Data is valuable and the Forest Walker could generate data sales to various government entities and private concerns. LiDaR (Light Detection and Ranging) can map topography, perform biomass assessment, comparative soil erosion analysis, etc. It so happens that the Forest Walker’s ability to “see,” to navigate about its surroundings, is LiDaR driven and since it’s already being used, we can get double duty by harvesting that data for later use. By using a laser to send out light pulses and measuring the time it takes for the reflection of those pulses to return, very detailed data sets incrementally build up. Eventually, as enough data about a certain area becomes available, the data becomes useful and valuable. Forestry concerns, both private and public, often use LiDaR to build 3D models of tree stands to assess the amount of harvest-able lumber in entire sections of forest. Consulting companies offering these services charge anywhere from several hundred to several thousand dollars per square kilometer for such services. A Forest Walker generating such assessments on the fly while performing its other functions is a multi-disciplinary approach to revenue generation. ### pH, Soil Moisture, and Cation Exchange Sensing  The Forest Walker is quadrupedal, so there are four contact points to the soil. Why not get a pH data point for every step it takes? We can also gather soil moisture data and cation exchange capacities at unheard of densities because of sampling occurring on the fly during commission of the system’s other duties. No one is going to build a machine to do pH testing of vast tracts of forest soils, but that doesn’t make the data collected from such an endeavor valueless. Since the Forest Walker serves many functions at once, a multitude of data products can add to the return on investment component. ### Weather Data  Temperature, humidity, pressure, and even data like evapotranspiration gathered at high densities on broad acre scales have untold value and because the sensors are lightweight and don’t require large power budgets, they come along for the ride at little cost. But, just like the old mantra, “gas, grass, or ass, nobody rides for free”, these sensors provide potential revenue benefits just by them being present. I’ve touched on just a few data genres here. In fact, the question for universities, governmental bodies, and other institutions becomes, “How much will you pay us to attach your sensor payload to the Forest Walker?” # Noise Suppression  Only you can prevent Metallica filling the surrounds with 120 dB of sound. Easy enough, just turn the car stereo off. But what of a fleet of 50 Forest Walkers operating in the backcountry or near a township? 500? 5000? Each one has a wood chipper, an internal combustion engine, hydraulic pumps, actuators, and more cooling fans than you can shake a stick at. It’s a walking, screaming fire-breathing dragon operating continuously, day and night, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred sixty-five days a year. The sound will negatively affect all living things and that impacts behaviors. Serious engineering consideration and prowess must deliver a silencing blow to the major issue of noise. It would be foolish to think that a fleet of Forest Walkers could be silent, but if not a major design consideration, then the entire idea is dead on arrival. Townships would not allow them to operate even if they solved the problem of widespread fuel load and neither would governmental entities, and rightly so. Nothing, not man nor beast, would want to be subjected to an eternal, infernal scream even if it were to end within days as the fleet moved further away after consuming what it could. Noise and heat are the only real pollutants of this system; taking noise seriously from the beginning is paramount. # Fire Safety  A “fire-breathing dragon” is not the worst description of the Forest Walker. It eats wood, combusts it at very high temperatures and excretes carbon; and it does so in an extremely flammable environment. Bad mix for one Forest Walker, worse for many. One must take extreme pains to ensure that during normal operation, a Forest Walker could fall over, walk through tinder dry brush, or get pounded into the ground by a meteorite from Krypton and it wouldn’t destroy epic swaths of trees and baby deer. I envision an ultimate test of a prototype to include dowsing it in grain alcohol while it’s wrapped up in toilet paper like a pledge at a fraternity party. If it runs for 72 hours and doesn’t set everything on fire, then maybe outside entities won’t be fearful of something that walks around forests with a constant fire in its belly. # The Wrap  How we think about what can be done with and adjacent to Bitcoin is at least as important as Bitcoin’s economic standing itself. For those who will tell me that this entire idea is without merit, I say, “OK, fine. You can come up with something, too.” What can we plug Bitcoin into that, like a battery, makes something that does not work, work? That’s the lesson I get from this entire exercise. No one was ever going to hire teams of humans to go out and "clean the forest". There's no money in that. The data collection and sales from such an endeavor might provide revenues over the break-even point but investment demands Alpha in this day and age. But, plug Bitcoin into an almost viable system and, voilà! We tip the scales to achieve lift-off. Let’s face it, we haven’t scratched the surface of Bitcoin’s forcing function on our minds. Not because it’s Bitcoin, but because of what that invention means. The question that pushes me to approach things this way is, “what can we create that one system’s waste is another system’s feedstock?” The Forest Walker system’s only real waste is the conversion of low entropy energy (wood and syngas) into high entropy energy (heat and noise). All other output is beneficial to humanity. Bitcoin, I believe, is the first product of a new mode of human imagination. An imagination newly forged over the past few millennia of being lied to, stolen from, distracted and otherwise mis-allocated to a black hole of the nonsensical. We are waking up. What I have presented is not science fiction. Everything I have described here is well within the realm of possibility. The question is one of viability, at least in terms of the detritus of the old world we find ourselves departing from. This system would take a non-trivial amount of time and resources to develop. I think the system would garner extensive long-term contracts from those who have the most to lose from wildfires, the most to gain from hyperaccurate data sets, and, of course, securing the most precious asset in the world. Many may not see it that way, for they seek Alpha and are therefore blind to other possibilities. Others will see only the possibilities; of thinking in a new way, of looking at things differently, and dreaming of what comes next.

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# Bitcoin กับปริมาณที่จำกัด ในโลกที่เงินเฟ้อและการพิมพ์เงินอย่างไม่มีที่สิ้นสุดเป็นเรื่องปกติ Bitcoin กลายเป็นทรัพย์สินที่แตกต่างและน่าสนใจด้วยคุณสมบัติที่เรียกว่า "ความหายาก" หรือ Scarcity ซึ่งมีบทบาทสำคัญในการสร้างมูลค่าและความน่าเชื่อถือของมันในระยะยาว ## Hard Cap: ขีดจำกัดปริมาณ Bitcoin Bitcoin มีจำนวนจำกัดอยู่ที่ 21 ล้านเหรียญเท่านั้น และนี่ไม่ใช่เรื่องบังเอิญ แต่เป็นหลักการที่ถูกวางไว้ตั้งแต่การออกแบบโดย Satoshi Nakamoto ผู้สร้าง Bitcoin การจำกัดปริมาณนี้ถูกเขียนลงในโค้ดของ Bitcoin และไม่มีใครสามารถเปลี่ยนแปลงได้ ## ทำไมความหายากจึงสำคัญ? 1. **ป้องกันเงินเฟ้อ:** ในระบบการเงินแบบดั้งเดิม รัฐบาลและธนาคารกลางสามารถพิมพ์เงินเพิ่มได้อย่างไม่จำกัด ซึ่งนำไปสู่เงินเฟ้อและการเสื่อมค่าของเงิน แต่สำหรับ Bitcoin การจำกัดปริมาณทำให้ไม่เกิดเงินเฟ้อในระยะยาว 2. **สร้างมูลค่า:** เช่นเดียวกับทองคำที่มีจำนวนจำกัด ความหายากทำให้ Bitcoin เป็นที่ต้องการในฐานะทรัพย์สินที่เก็บมูลค่า 3. **การกระจายและการใช้งาน:** การมีจำนวนจำกัดกระตุ้นให้คนที่ถือ Bitcoin มองเห็นคุณค่าและใช้งานอย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ ไม่ใช่แค่เก็บสะสมไว้ ## ผลกระทบต่อมูลค่าในระยะยาว - **ความน่าเชื่อถือในฐานะทรัพย์สินที่เก็บมูลค่า:** ด้วยจำนวนที่จำกัด Bitcoin มีโอกาสที่จะกลายเป็น "ทองคำดิจิทัล" ที่ประชาชนทั่วโลกใช้เพื่อปกป้องทรัพย์สินของพวกเขา - **แรงขับเคลื่อนของตลาด:** ความต้องการ Bitcoin ที่เพิ่มขึ้นเมื่อเทียบกับจำนวนที่จำกัดทำให้มูลค่าของมันเพิ่มขึ้นในระยะยาว - **การเพิ่มมูลค่าผ่าน Halving:** ทุก ๆ สี่ปี รางวัลสำหรับนักขุด Bitcoin จะลดลงครึ่งหนึ่ง (Halving) ซึ่งเป็นการลดอัตราการผลิต Bitcoin ใหม่ ทำให้ความหายากชัดเจนยิ่งขึ้น ## บทเรียนจากความหายากของ Bitcoin Bitcoin ไม่ได้เป็นเพียงคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีแรกในโลก แต่ยังเป็นทรัพย์สินที่สร้างความมั่นใจในมูลค่าให้กับผู้ใช้งานทั่วโลกด้วยคุณสมบัติของความหายาก คุณล่ะ เชื่อว่าความหายากของ Bitcoin จะส่งผลต่อมูลค่าในอนาคตหรือไม่? ร่วมแสดงความคิดเห็นด้านล่าง!

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Weston A. Price was a Canadian dentist and researcher who, during the 1930s, studied traditional diets worldwide, and correctly linked nutrient-rich whole foods to optimal dental and overall health. His book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, remains one of the most important books ever written on health and one of my favourites. *Pictured: Cover of Weston Prices book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration* His research on indigenous populations around the world revealed a simple truth: human beings thrive on sunlight, nature and nutrient-dense, whole foods. When traditional lifestyles were replaced by artificial light environments (moving from the country to the city) and ultra-processed foods (refined flour, sugar, and industrial oils), physical degeneration followed. Crooked teeth, chronic disease, and weakened immunity became common. Sound familiar? ## What did Price get right about nutrition? Price's work showed that thriving societies shared common dietary foundations: - **Animal-Based Nutrition:** Every healthy population consumed some form of meat, fish, and nose-to-tail organ meats. These foods provided essential fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K2), minerals, and bioavailable protein. - **Seafood:** Coastal and island communities thrived on fish and shellfish, packed with DHA, iodine, and other critical nutrients for brain development and metabolic health. - **Nose-to-Tail Eating:** Nothing was wasted. Bones, marrow, organs, and connective tissue were all consumed, providing collagen, glycine, and minerals vital for strong bones, joints, and teeth. It didn't really matter what the rest of their diets were made up of, as long as they were whole foods, processed in the correct way. *Pictured: Left: Thriving on ancestral diets. Centre: Decline with modern diets. Right: The visible impact on children's health.* ## How Price's work breaks modern nutrition myths Price’s findings dismantle many of today’s nutrition myths that we see on social media everyday. - *Oats are bad?* Scottish islanders prepared them properly, without glyphosate. - *Fatty meat causes heart disease and cancer?* The Inuit lived on it, free from disease. - *Fruit is harmful?* Pacific Islanders consumed local and seasonal fruit and thrived. - *Unpasteurised milk will poison you?* The Massai lived on it (and still do). - *Sourdough bread will cause diabetes?* Swiss Villagers ate it regularly. - *Plants trying to kill you?* The Kikuyu ate a 90% plant based diet but included meat. I could go on and on here... If this challenges your perspective, it might be worth reflecting on how closely personal identity can become tied to dietary choices. Food is meant to nourish and be enjoyed, not followed like a rigid belief system. *\*If a particular diet is working for you please continue with it.* ## The missing piece of the puzzle While Price deeply understood the importance of ancestral diets, he overlooked one critical factor: **sunlight and time outdoors.** All of the healthy populations he studied lived naturally, outside, grounded, and in sync with the sun. This daily exposure to natural light regulated their circadian rhythms, increased vitamin D levels, and supported hormonal health. The absence of artificial light at night further protected their health. Today, some people eat well (most don't) but neglect this vital piece of the health puzzle. Sunlight, outdoors, and grounding complete the foundation Price started. *Pictured: Incredible physiques and facial bone structure of Australian Aborigine eating their traditional diet and in sync with nature.* ## Health shouldn't be complicated Modern nutrition and science has overcomplicated what we humans already knew for thousands of years. **Eat real food. Move outside. Embrace the sun. Limit artificial light.** Simple. Proven. Forgotten by fiat health. \- Chris Ready to reclaim health the way nature intended? Let’s talk. Book a free discovery call here: <https://calendly.com/hello-chrispatrick> *Further reading:* Cate Shanahan MD has an excellent book called 'Deep Nutrition' which explains in detail many of these concepts. <https://drcate.com/deep-nutrition-why-your-genes-need-traditional-food/> <https://www.ericdavisdental.com/facial-orthotropics-for-your-child/why-raise-unhealthy-children/how-our-ancestors-formed-full-faces-and-straight-teeth/> <https://www.drstevenlin.com/the-dental-diet/> <https://www.westonaprice.org/>

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In a world where sovereignty is supposedly sacred, a startling truth emerges: The United States' attempt to purchase Greenland has exposed how territories and their populations can still be viewed as tradeable assets in the 21st century. This investigation reveals the true scope of what could be the most audacious territorial acquisition since the Alaska Purchase of 1867. ## THE SOVEREIGNTY PARADOX When Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen declared "Greenland is not for sale," she inadvertently highlighted a crucial irony: Denmark's authority to reject the sale implies ownership of a territory seeking self-determination. Prime Minister Egede's recent accusation of Danish genocide over the 1960s forced contraceptive program adds a chilling historical context to this modern power play. ## THE REAL PRICE OF A NATION The initial estimates of $12.5-77 billion, calculated by former New York Fed economist David Barker, barely scratch the surface. The true cost approaches $2 trillion when factoring in: - Infrastructure development: $1.5 trillion - Annual subsidies: $775 million - Resident compensation: $5.7-57 billion - Environmental protection costs: Billions annually ## THE COLONIAL ECHO CHAMBER **HISTORICAL WOUNDS AND MODERN AMBITIONS** Trump's refusal to rule out military force against a NATO ally marks an unprecedented threat in post-WW2 diplomacy. Meanwhile, Donald #Trump Jr.'s "private visits" to Greenland, coupled with Denmark's pointed refusal to meet him, reveals the intersection of personal business interests and national security policy. ## THE RESOURCE SOVEREIGNTY EQUATION Beneath Greenland's ice lies an estimated $1.1 trillion in mineral wealth, presenting an alluring economic incentive. However, this potential wealth raises fundamental questions about resource sovereignty: **DEVELOPMENT COSTS** - 24 major development projects needed - $5 billion per project - 25-year implementation timeline - Current GDP: $3.236 billion **STRATEGIC RESOURCES** - Rare earth elements crucial for technology - 31.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent - Vast hydroelectric potential - Green hydrogen production possibilities ## THE ENVIRONMENTAL STAKES Greenland's ice sheet contains enough water to raise global sea levels by 23 feet. Climate change is rapidly transforming resource accessibility, while environmental protection costs would run into billions annually. This environmental transformation creates both opportunities and responsibilities: - Tourism sector potential: $450 million annually - Climate change monitoring costs - Environmental protection infrastructure - Indigenous land management rights ## THE GEOPOLITICAL CHESSBOARD **POWER DYNAMICS** The acquisition would fundamentally alter Arctic power structures: - #NATO alliance relationships - Chinese economic interests - Arctic Council voting power - Maritime shipping routes **THE CHINESE SHADOW** Denmark's 2017 intervention blocking Chinese acquisition of a former military base reveals Greenland's role in a larger geopolitical game. China's growing Arctic ambitions add urgency to American interests. ## THE MONARCHICAL DIMENSION King Frederik X's strategic modification of #Denmark 's royal coat of arms to emphasize Greenland ownership serves as a direct challenge to American ambitions, adding traditional power structures to modern sovereignty disputes. ## PROBABILITY AND RESISTANCE Current analysis suggests: - 60% chance of failure due to international opposition - 30% chance of diplomatic compromise - 10% chance of successful acquisition ## THE INFLATION FACTOR The purchase would trigger significant inflationary pressures through: - Massive fiscal expenditure in an already heated economy - Supply chain disruptions - Construction and development costs - Core PCE inflation impact - Federal Reserve policy complications ## LEGAL AND FINANCIAL HURDLES The acquisition faces numerous obstacles: - International maritime law complications - Indigenous rights considerations - Existing mining licenses - Danish sovereign debt obligations - NATO alliance implications ## THE SOVEREIGNTY SOLUTION The path forward likely lies not in purchase but in supporting Greenlandic self-determination. With only 56,000 residents, the per capita acquisition cost would be astronomical, but the human cost of ignoring sovereignty rights would be immeasurable. ## CONCLUSION: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM The true cost of purchasing Greenland extends beyond economics into the realm of human rights and dignity. As climate change transforms the Arctic landscape, the question isn't whether Greenland can be bought—it's whether territorial transactions should have any place in a world that claims to value self-determination. The convergence of colonial history, indigenous rights, and geopolitical ambitions in Greenland serves as a mirror to our times. While major powers still think in terms of territorial acquisition, the people of Greenland remind us that sovereignty isn't for sale. Their struggle for self-determination, caught between American ambitions, Chinese influence, Danish sovereignty, and their own independence aspirations, may well define the future of Arctic politics and indigenous rights in the 21st century. The most viable path appears to be enhanced economic partnership without formal territorial acquisition, possibly through a free association agreement following #Greenland 's potential independence. As the Arctic's strategic importance grows, this #nostr analysis becomes increasingly relevant for future policy considerations and global power dynamics.

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By a Voice in the Ether There is a specter haunting the world, not of socialism nor capitalism, but of Bitcoin. Across collapsing institutions, crumbling economies, and the craters of failed ideologies, one immutable force remains standing. The old order, built on fiat promises and fraudulent foundations, is coming undone. And yet, amidst the ashes, Bitcoin persists—not as a savior, but as a mirror, exposing the rot of the collapsing world. The Fraud of the Present System We have been told, since our first lessons in civics, to trust the institutions. Trust the central banks, trust the governments, trust the corporations. They assured us that the system was built for our benefit, and perhaps it was, at least for a time. But systems are not eternal; they decay. What begins as noble purpose is corrupted by greed, hubris, and power. Fiat money—the paper promise of value—is the cornerstone of this crumbling architecture. It is a lie we have all agreed to believe, a house of cards masquerading as a cathedral. Its architects insist it is stable, but the foundation was rotten from the start. With each new crisis—be it financial, political, or social—the cracks grow wider. Governments print more money, banks gamble with our savings, and corporations devour themselves in pursuit of profits. Collapse is not an accident but an inevitability. The Immutable Opponent Enter Bitcoin: an invention as improbable as it is indestructible. It does not ask for trust, nor does it seek power. It exists as a silent ledger, a mathematical truth immune to the machinations of men. While fiat currencies inflate, Bitcoin deflates; while institutions crumble under their own weight, Bitcoin strengthens with each block mined. Bitcoin is not a currency in the traditional sense. It is an idea—a revolutionary one—that money can exist outside the control of governments, corporations, and central banks. And this idea is an existential threat to the old world order. It cannot be bribed, blackmailed, or bombed. In a world of deceit, Bitcoin’s honesty is its weapon. The Collapse of Control Those in power, the self-appointed stewards of civilization, have long relied on control. They control the money supply, the narrative, and even the minds of the masses. But Bitcoin subverts this control. Its decentralized nature means there is no single point of failure, no lever for the powerful to pull. It is chaos to the tyrant, order to the individual. The more the old system fights Bitcoin, the weaker it becomes. Banning it, regulating it, or demonizing it only underscores its power. For every fiat collapse—whether it be the hyperinflation of Venezuela or the quiet erosion of the dollar—Bitcoin gains another convert. The rulers of the old world cling desperately to their crumbling thrones, but they cannot un-invent the technology that undermines them. The Psychology of Collapse Collapse is not merely economic or political; it is psychological. The people, long conditioned to believe in the infallibility of their leaders, are awakening to the lie. They see their savings devalued, their freedoms eroded, their futures mortgaged. In this void of trust, Bitcoin offers not just a financial alternative but a psychological refuge. It is a declaration of independence, a refusal to participate in the farce. But make no mistake: this is not a utopia. Bitcoin does not promise salvation, only sovereignty. It is as harsh and unyielding as the world it seeks to replace. In this way, it is not a solution but a challenge—a demand for responsibility in an age of abdication. The Inevitable Reckoning The collapse of everything against Bitcoin is not a failure of the technology or the people who use it; it is a failure of the old system to adapt. Fiat currencies, like all monopolies, rot under the weight of their own contradictions. Governments that print money into oblivion cannot compete with a currency that cannot be printed. Centralized institutions built on trust cannot outlast a network that requires none. The collapse, then, is not a tragedy but a necessity. It is the clearing of the dead wood, the end of a long and unsustainable lie. What rises in its place remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: Bitcoin will not collapse, for it was never built to stand on the same shifting sands. It is the bedrock beneath the ruins, the immutable foundation on which the future may yet be built. And so, as the world collapses, let us not mourn the old order, for it was never meant to last. Instead, let us look to the strange and immutable invention that has outlasted its detractors, the silent force that asks no permission and grants no quarter. Bitcoin endures, not because it is perfect, but because it is incorruptible. In a world of collapse, that is enough.

@ 7bdef7be:784a5805

The following script try, using [nak](https://github.com/fiatjaf/nak), to find out the last ten people who have followed a `target_pubkey`, sorted by the most recent. It's possibile to shorten `search_timerange` to speed up the search. ``` #!/usr/bin/env fish # Target pubkey we're looking for in the tags set target_pubkey "6e468422dfb74a5738702a8823b9b28168abab8655faacb6853cd0ee15deee93" set current_time (date +%s) set search_timerange (math $current_time - 600) # 24 hours = 86400 seconds set pubkeys (nak req --kind 3 -s $search_timerange wss://relay.damus.io/ wss://nos.lol/ 2>/dev/null | \ jq -r --arg target "$target_pubkey" ' select(. != null and type == "object" and has("tags")) | select(.tags[] | select(.[0] == "p" and .[1] == $target)) | .pubkey ' | sort -u) if test -z "$pubkeys" exit 1 end set all_events "" set extended_search_timerange (math $current_time - 31536000) # One year for pubkey in $pubkeys echo "Checking $pubkey" set events (nak req --author $pubkey -l 5 -k 3 -s $extended_search_timerange wss://relay.damus.io wss://nos.lol 2>/dev/null | \ jq -c --arg target "$target_pubkey" ' select(. != null and type == "object" and has("tags")) | select(.tags[][] == $target) ' 2>/dev/null) set count (echo "$events" | jq -s 'length') if test "$count" -eq 1 set all_events $all_events $events end end if test -n "$all_events" echo -e "Last people following $target_pubkey:" echo -e "" set sorted_events (printf "%s\n" $all_events | jq -r -s ' unique_by(.id) | sort_by(-.created_at) | .[] | @json ') for event in $sorted_events set npub (echo $event | jq -r '.pubkey' | nak encode npub) set created_at (echo $event | jq -r '.created_at') if test (uname) = "Darwin" set follow_date (date -r "$created_at" "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") else set follow_date (date -d @"$created_at" "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") end echo "$follow_date - $npub" end end ```

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I am not a big fan of open letters, it’s really difficult to write on a topic that applies so broadly without exception. Yet, here I am with a topic that I believe meets this criteria. In this post, I will not attempt to sell you on the merits of Bitcoin or the evils of fiat currency. There is enough content out there that can explain those topics better than I ever could. Instead, I want to convince church leaders around the world that you should seriously consider equipping your church to be able to accept Bitcoin as a medium of tithes and offerings from your congregants. Here is a list of reasons I came up with for church leaders to consider: 1. **Bitcoin Wallet is very simple to set up** 1. It’s quite simple to set up a bitcoin wallet. Do not let the technology make you think it is too complicated. If you have someone in your congregation familiar with BTC, they can help. Or, if you go to a company like Unchained Capital, their staff will walk you thru it step by step. There may be a small fee, but should be seriously considered. 2. **We should try to accommodate our congregation** 1. Especially if it’s easy to set up, we should try to accommodate accepting our tithes and offerings in how our congregation is led to give. If there are members in the congregation who are inclined to tithe in BTC, the church should be set up to accept it. 2. Anecdote: In college I knew a pastor who tithed in 1oz silver coins. He subscribed to Austrian economics, and said “why should I give to my Lord money that devalues”. The church bought a safe and stored it. All congregations should have the same mentality 3. **Sending money to foreign missionaries:** 1. No transaction or exchange fees 2. Sending a wire to a foreign missionary with accountability is painful. We used to do this and needed two signatures and the sending financial institution required us to fax approval. 3. Many times, individuals who serve on Church Finances have full time day jobs and the coordination and administration becomes logistically very difficult. Church finances should have accountability but our existing financial institutions make this difficult or they do not consistently enforce it. 4. Bitcoin Multi-Sig makes this extremely simple and easy. You skip Transaction and Exchange fees and accountability is built in with Multi-Sig. For those of you unfamiliar with multi-sig, just imagine the following scenario: You have 3 authorized signers at your Church. In order to send money, you need 2 out of those 3 signers to authorize sending funds. 4. **Financial Sovereignty** 1. Any student of church history knows that governments have been the greatest persecutors of the church. The separation of Church and state is dwindling as government power continues to grow. With BTC, the government cannot seize or freeze your assets. 2. All you have to think about is Covid. Imagine if you did not want to shut down your Church during Covid (I.e. The state of New Jersey froze and seized assets of Atilis Gym) This does not apply to just governments, but also financial institutions. 3. Churches should learn to self custody assets. Underground churches will attest to this.

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The employment trends in the gig economy are clear. More and more people take on some form of freelance or temporary work often on top of their full time job. In fact, according to [recent estimates](https://www.upwork.com/resources/gig-economy-statistics), approximately 1.57 billion people, or nearly half (46.4%) of the global workforce, engage in gig work. As gig platforms continue to expand across borders and sectors, this number is projected to keep rising. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/d4fca16a18e427f8c3f97677c8e7599a4a4ad1cc2d635bfcd0ab6b0ada48ecb9.png"> In the UK, the gig economy is particularly popular, with many workers supplementing their income with side gigs. According to a [recent survey](https://standout-cv.com/stats/gig-economy-statistics-uk#:~:text=For%20most%2C%2071.5%25%2C%20gig,main%20income%20\(both%2036%25\).), almost half (48%) of UK gig workers have full-time jobs on top of their side gigs, while 71.5% use gig work to supplement their income rather than provide their sole earnings. The top gig occupation in the UK is online administrative work, with 39% of gig workers offering virtual assistance, data entry, clerical services, or similar computer-based tasks. Sounds like a great way to earn some sats, doesn't it? Despite the growth and popularity of the gig economy, traditional platforms like LinkedIn have reached their peak and become increasingly plagued by spam from aggressive recruiters and profiles of people with increasingly unverifiable experience. Meanwhile all the centralised platforms like Fiverr and Upwork take a significant cut from freelancers' pay, leaving many workers feeling undervalued and overworked. It's no wonder that many are looking for alternative solutions that prioritize fairness, transparency, trust and compensation paid in money that will last! Here comes Nostr, a decentralized, censorship-resistant protocol that's laying foundations for the future of the gig work. With its censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer approach, Nostr is poised to revolutionize the way we work and connect with each other. In this article, I'll explore why Nostr is an exciting development for the gig economy, what it means for the future of work and what platforms are already available. What makes Nostr different? It’s built on principles of decentralization, freedom, trust and Bitcoin as its native currency. Forget walled gardens; with Nostr, your identity is your own. Nobody’s mining your data, and no shadowy algorithms are deciding who sees your posts or what posts you should see. It's a perfect setup for a job marketplace where companies post jobs and freelancers get them done. All paid with Bitcoin with no middleman to take your money And it’s not just theory. Real solutions are already built, transforming how professionals connect, collaborate, and commit their skills, time and creativity. All open-source and Bitcoin/Nostr-centric. ## Here are 4 tools you want to check out: 1. [SatShoot:](https://SatShoot.com) Think Upwork or Fiverr, but with integrated eCash wallet and zero middlemen. Creators, freelancers, and clients unite under the banner of peer-to-peer gig economy. 2. [Kanbanstr](https://www.kanbanstr.com/): A Nostr-native Kanban board for moving tasks from To Do &gt; In Progress &gt; Done and zapping the developers as they deliver. 3. [GitWorkshop.dev](https://gitworkshop.dev/): A decentralized alternative to GitHub, tailored for developers who value freedom and sovereignty. 4. [Sigit.io](https://sigit.io/): An open-source and self-hostable solution for secure document signing and verification. These platforms aren’t just ideas; they’re already being built, some are already in Beta versions, and you can test them today! These platforms aren’t just ideas; they’re already being built, some are already in Beta versions, and you can test them today! ## Don't trust - verify! How can you be sure you're getting help from the right people with the right skills? That’s where the Web of Trust (WoT) comes in. On Nostr, the WoT is a decentralized trust system that lets users build and evaluate relationships using cryptographic keys and interactions. Instead of depending on centralized authorities to verify identities or manage reputations, the WoT allows trust to grow organically through direct endorsements and social connections. In this system, your track record matters. As a freelancer, you’re motivated to deliver quality work—not just to get paid, but also to earn positive feedback. This feedback boosts your reputation, helping you secure your next gig. You could get extra points if i.e. you hold a subject matter expert certificate. Credentials and certifications are still often critical to determine if someone has the skills you are looking for. The idea of certifications could be rebuilt on Nostr with Badges NIP-58. Institutions like Red Hat, Cisco, and others could issue verifiable, NIP-05-backed badges directly to your Nostr public key (“npub”). It’s simple: 1. The certifying body verifies their domain via NIP-05. 2. They issue badges for their certifications 3. Successful candidates receive badges and wear them on their npubs. All it takes is that during the registration process for the exam the examinee adds their npub and Voilà! A decentralized, censorship-resistant proof of skills that lives on Nostr. No middlemen, no gatekeepers, you get the right people for the right job! Here’s a mind-blowing stat: 95% of the world’s population doesn’t own any Bitcoin. With fiat systems teetering, more people will turn to earning Bitcoin instead of buying it at ever-rising prices. Nostr-based platforms are perfectly positioned to capitalize on this trend, offering global access to Bitcoin-based gigs. It’s borderless, censorship-resistant, and a hedge against the collapsing fiat world order. Nostr clients and solutions are popping up faster than mushrooms after rain. Whether you’re a developer, marketer, freelancer, or just someone curious about the future of work, there’s a tool for you. This explosive growth signals a broader shift: professionals are tired of traditional platforms and are looking for alternatives that respect their privacy, autonomy, and time. ## The Bottom Line LinkedIn’s days are numbered. Services like Upwork and Fiverr or even Uber are praying on freelance fees. The future of services, networking, and professional growth is decentralized, censorship-resistant, and powered by Nostr. Whether you’re a freelancer, a certifying body, or a startup founder, the opportunities are endless. Here's a New Year resolution for you -  say goodbye to spam and hello to sovereignty. The Nostr revolution is here, and it’s time to join the movement! --- *If you’re inspired to dive into the Nostr ecosystem but need guidance, the [NostrDev team](https://nostrdev.com) has got your back. From conceptualizing your solution to building it out, we’re the go-to experts for all things Nostr. Reach out and start building the future today*.

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## Chef's notes Recipe modified from a recipe published from a school cookbook in 1963. ## Details - 🍳 Cook time: 8 to 10 Minutes at 400 - 🍽️ Servings: 3 dozen or so depending on cookie size ## Ingredients - 2 sticks of butter - 1 1/2 Cup sugar - 2 eggs - 1 t. vanilla (optional but recommended) - 2 3/4 cups flour - 2 t. Cream of tartar - 1 t. Soda - 1/4 t. Salt ## Directions 1. 1. Heat over to 400 2. 2. Mix butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla thoroughly. 3. 3. Sift together flour, cream of tartar, soda, salt and blend into mixture. 4. 4. Form small dough balls and roll in sugar/cinnamon 5. 5. Place each cookie dough ball 2" apart on a cookie sheet

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I almost forgot about Mock Draft Monday, but here we go. # Mock Draft Pick 6: DT Mason Graham Pick 37: OT Aireontae Ersery Pick 68: WR Elic Ayomanor Pick 73: RB Kaleb Johnson Pick 106: QB Jaxson Dart Pick 142: S Billy Bowman Pick 178: CB Jabbar Muhammad Pick 212: OG Jaeden Roberts Pick 216: DT Tonka Hemingway Pick 222: LB Jack Kiser I've been happy with these mocks. This is a nice position in the draft, that's letting me build out from the trenches. Graham was my first pick last week, too. He would make this line one of the elite units in the entire league, assuming health. In lieu of a top QB, I managed to use the three day 2 picks on the line, rushing, and receiving. Then, with the first pick on day 3, I get a QB that I've heard very good things about. Brady likes QB's to sit as rookies anyway, so Dart can learn from AOC, who is a perfectly competent NFL QB and very bright. The rest of day 3 is about filling in depth and drafting guys with cool names (Tonka!). originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/849063

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The blockchain is now over 600 gigabytes. Am I correct to assume that a lot of nodes are about to drop off of the network in the near future? My 1 terabyte node has 74 gigabytes of free space left. @DarthCoin has assured me that it will be easy to transfer it over to a new machine (although I probably need to get to it soon), but can everybody afford a machine with a 2 terabyte hard drive? Will we see a significant amount of nodes leave the network as 1 terabyte hard drives are no longer big enough to run Bitcoin? Have their been milestones like this before I was involved in the network? I'd assume so as I have machines from a time when bitcoin was around that only have 250 gigabytes. I've been thinking about the blocksize wars and thought that there have to occasionally be milestones in which the blockchain just reaches a standard commercially made disk size and a bunch of folks have to shut their nodes off. Anyway, not too worried, just curious if anybody else is thinking about this. Fun fact, as a kid, I remember a neighbor calling my family rich because we had a computer with a 40 megabyte hard drive. originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/848998

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My only dog in the fight is in the NFFC playoff contest wherein you a pick player on each team whose scores double, triple and quadruple each round his team advances. So it’s important to pick players initially you think will not only score a lot per game, but who will also advance to the Super Bowl. The quarterbacks are key here because they score the most points, and usually you pick one in each conference so there’s a chance you can have two match up at 4x points in the Super Bowl. But I went with Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson, figuring they could both be 3x in the AFC Championship, and I’d be guaranteed to get one of them at 4x in that case. In the NFC, I used Jahmyr Gibbs and Saquon Barkley on the two favorites, both of whom routinely outscore their respective QBs. For God knows what reason I used the Denver kicker (instead of the Texans kicker) even though the Texans were only three-point dogs, while the Broncos were nine. I think I still have a personal bias against Houston after drafting C.J. Stroud and Stefon Diggs everywhere this year only to see the passing game implode. But what happens in the later rounds is far more important, even if I gave away two-rounds worth of kicker points by that misstep. The team I faded was the Bills. I used their defense, but if they beat the Ravens next week I’m drawing deader than dead. I could have used the Chargers defense instead and put in James Cook over Ladd McConkey at the flex. McConkey went nuts, but Cook did well too, and remember he’s 2x next week. - I saw only the end of the first half of Texans-Chargers. The Texans outscored them 10-0 in the second quarter and took control of the game. Stroud picked up a bad snap, rolled out and made a massive throw on one drive and also scrambled for 27 yards, looking *much* faster than I had remembered. - The Texans defense has always been pretty good. They could slog it out in Arrowhead, but I expect the Chiefs with kill them with 1000 papercuts. - McConkey is great, but the Chargers are short one serious playmaker. They need an elite TE, an elite pass-catching back or another WR at a minimum. - I didn’t catch Ravens-Steelers, but I expected the game to go more or less like that. Russell Wilson shouldn’t be a starting quarterback anymore (obviously.) - I watched most of Broncos-Bills. There was hope early, but the Bills, like the Chiefs, paper-cut you to death before the defense wears down, and then they get the big plays. It’s just very hard to stop a Josh Allen (or Mahomes) team from getting 10 yards in four downs. - The Broncos should be a fun team going forward with Bo Nix and Sean Payton. They need to improve the running game and add a pass-catching TE though. - The Packers hung around for a while, but they were already down Christian Watson then lost both Romeo Doubs and Jayden Reed during the game. They didn’t have enough juice. - The Eagles offense was sluggish. It wasn’t a problem against the depleted Packers, but the winner of the Rams-Vikings tonight should push them more. - I watched the 40-minute version of Bucs-Killer Redskins. The Bucs were more efficient offensively and had an easier time converting first downs. But the KR’s converted some key fourth downs including a TD pass, and the Baker Mayfield botched handoff on the jet sweep was crushing. I love based Todd Bowles, but the KRs have more upside, in my opinion with Jayden Daniels. - Terry McLaurin might be a Hall of Fame level receiver whose talent was hidden for years by bad QB play. Their other receiver was dynamic and brown too. - The KRs couldn’t run the ball to save their lives. Brian Robinson has power, but he needs to get going, and he never had a chance. - Bucky Irving seems to have taken the job entirely now, which means he probably will go in the second round of drafts next year. Good on Bowles for making the switch from the veteran Rachaad White to the clearly superior talent. - The Lions will probably run over the KRs next week, but Daniels is dangerous.

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In our ever-changing world, whether you're heading up a business, a non-profit, or a government organization, leading with empathy is a key skill necessary for connecting with stakeholders and employees. As illustrated so starkly this week in the face of the devastating fires in Los Angeles, leaders are finding out that empathy isn't just a nice-to-have; it's essential for effective leadership. Here's how compassion can supercharge your leadership in any kind of organization. ### Understanding Empathy in Leadership Empathy in leadership isn't just about getting where people are coming from; it's about genuinely caring about their perspectives, feelings, and personal needs. An empathetic leader doesn't just listen to respond; they listen to understand and connect. This approach creates a culture where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued, leading to stronger loyalty, motivation, and productivity across the board. In Los Angeles, neither Governor Gavin Newsom nor Mayor Karen Bass displayed the type of empathy necessary to reassure victims of the wildfires that competent support was available. During multiple encounters with residents and media, Newsom and Bass struggled to say anything meaningful about the help that was available, their care for the people who had devastating losses, and their accountability for poor preparation ahead of knowable fire risks. ### Improving How We Communicate Empathy really ups the game when it comes to communication. Leaders who lead with empathy handle conflicts better, negotiate with more finesse, and give feedback that's helpful rather than harsh. This kind of communication breaks down walls, fosters open dialogue, and builds trust like nothing else. Trust is the foundation of any successful team, no matter the sector, and without it, even the best plans can fall apart. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida displayed this type of communication during the 2024 hurricanes that affected many parts of his state. This communication style was empathetic, competent, and reassuring. ### Boosting Team Performance and Leading Change Empathetic leadership has a direct line to better team performance. Research shows that groups with empathetic leaders are more collaborative, innovative, and just happier at work. When folks know their leaders care about them as people, not just workers, they're more likely to give their all. This isn't just about good vibes; it's about creating a space where people feel safe to take risks, share new ideas, and innovate. Change is a constant, whether you’re in business, non-profit, or government, and how leaders manage this change can make or break an organization. Empathetic leaders are pros at spotting and addressing the fears and concerns that come with change. They communicate openly, support their team, and guide transitions with a focus on the human aspect. This approach not only eases the process but keeps the team united and focused when things get unpredictable. ### Challenges and Considerations Of course, leading with empathy has its hurdles. It's all about finding the right balance; too much empathy might make tough calls harder to make or seem like you're not objective enough. Leaders need to practice empathy without losing the edge of their leadership role. Also, watch out for empathy fatigue, where too much emotional involvement can lead to burnout. ### Conclusion Leading with empathy isn't just about being kind; it's a smart strategy that boosts leadership effectiveness in any organization. It builds tougher, more adaptable teams that are ready for whatever comes their way. As we look to the future, weaving empathy into leadership isn't just good for the soul; it's good for success. At the end of the day, every organization, whether it's for-profit, non-profit, or governmental, is all about its people. Understanding and valuing them is the secret to unlocking their true potential.

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16 years ago, SATOSHI posted this message to sourceforge - Announcing Bitcoin V0.1 - This sourceforge announcement is almost identical to the Cryptography Mailing List announcement, posted on January 8th 2009. There are a few grammatical differences and a different download link for the Bitcoin program, but other than that, the message is the same. 21 million coins and no more. The fun thing about this sourceforge announcement is that it appears to have been forgotten. The record for it is not accounted for by The Nakamoto Institute, The Book of Satoshi, or even Kicking The Hornets Nest Perhaps it should be added to the Satoshi history books. Makes you wonder what other forgotten digital artifacts are out there. https://x.com/BITCOINALLCAPS/status/1878871291442421775 originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/848887

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Sci-Hub 2024 year end review is translated to English by Kagi Translate from Russian. Original text can be found in Sci-Hub's telegram channel https://t.me/freescience. ### RESULTS OF 2024 First. The project received donations totaling 2 million dollars in meme coins. The project is actively used by many students in China, which is why a group of Sci-Hub fans has emerged there. As far as I understand, the organizer of the group is actively interested in the topic of cryptocurrencies (even wrote a book). Somewhere in mid-November, the Chinese launched a meme coin in honor of the Sci-Hub project. At its peak, the coin's price reached 5 cents, and now it is somewhere around 1-2 cents. This means that the exchange rate of the Sci-Hub cryptocurrency is now almost equal to the ruble exchange rate (100 to one or so). In general, I converted part of these donations into normal, traditional cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin) and paid for servers several months in advance. The other part is still sitting in meme coins—I hope that the token will still grow in price (there is a promotion plan). Of course, this is risky, but Sci-Hub is a project that is not afraid of risk. Therefore, anyone who wants to invest in Sci-Hub by purchasing this token can do so here: www.coingecko.com/en/coins/sci-hub Second. A dissertation on the topic of open scientific knowledge has been defended at the Institute of Philosophy. For those interested in the history and philosophy of science, I defended a dissertation in April at the Institute of Philosophy on the topic that scientific knowledge should be open (otherwise, it is strange to call it scientific at all). The work shows that open communication is one of the basic traditional values of science when considering science as a social institution. In other words, journals that charge for access to scientific articles are a kind of 'non-traditional orientation journals.' Moreover, openness is an important prerequisite for rationality. Rationality is not limited to the criterion of falsification (hello Popper); it is a much more complex concept. You can familiarize yourself with the text of the dissertation here: web.archive.org/web/20240425100014/https://iphras.ru/page26414303.htm (I provide the link through the web archive because the Institute's website, strangely enough, is glitching again at the time of writing this post). All criticism and comments (as well as praise) regarding the dissertation can be sent to my email. Third. Work has begun on a new declaration of open access to scientific knowledge. Currently, all discussions on the topic of open science are conducted within the frameworks defined by the so-called BBB declarations back in 2001-2003. Within these frameworks, two main types of open access are recognized: gold, meaning open journals with an author-pays model, and green, which refers to repositories like the well-known arXiv. We can also add the so-called diamond open access, which includes open journals that are free for both authors and readers. However, since 2003, internet technologies have advanced significantly. Today, we can already talk about such types of open access as blue (through academic social networks) or red (your beloved Sci-Hub). It is time to adopt a new declaration of open access to scientific knowledge that corresponds to the current state of scientific and technological progress. A preliminary version of the declaration can be read and signed here: open.science.do We will be more actively engaged in this in the coming year. Signing the declaration is an important step towards recognizing access to scientific knowledge through sites like Sci-Hub or Libgen as completely legal and ceasing to pursue them—first in the former USSR, and then in all countries of the world. Fourth. In 2024, about one billion articles were downloaded through Sci-Hub. Despite the fact that this is unfiltered statistics, the fact remains: the popularity of the project has not decreased but only grown, despite the fact that Sci-Hub has not been updated for quite a long time. Of course, this does not mean that the site will not be updated at all now—just that the patient is more alive than dead (no matter how much some haters might wish otherwise). The cause of open access to scientific knowledge will definitely prevail—because good always triumphs over evil. In the new year, I wish all scientists new discoveries and large grants. Happy New Year, comrades!

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I've lived most of my life in California. I am very familiar with Southern California and have traveled through it countless times over the last 30+ years. I've enjoyed spending time in SoCal. My heart goes out to the people that have lost everything as well as the people living on the edge fearing the fires will come their way. Its terrible. Its also not a new story as we have seen this many times before, just not affecting this many people. There are many theories and factors people are discussing online. Many IMO are missing the key issues. Regardless of how the fires started, sadly this event has only a matter of time. Been thinking about this issue for years and thought I would share my thoughts with you all. These are my opinions, I'm not an expert but I do live in the state and have paid attention to this topic since I was a kid. I've always loved the forests of California and I care about the beautiful state and its people. As I've said before, the government of California is evil. After you read this I hope you will understand why I believe this. I think Gavin Newsom is to blame for many of the issues we face but its bigger than one man. Removing him from office will not fix this problem. It is far more complex. ## PG&E's Electricity Infrastructure & The Consequences of Monopolies & Price Controls I'm not sure at this point if PG&E is at fault for starting these fires but it is at fault for many in the recent past. PG&E is the largest utility company in the state and has a monopoly over most of the state. SoCal Gas & Electric has monopoly over the rest of the state. Both are public utilities which essentially means these are more like government controlled entities than private companies. California has long used price controls on electricity. We know that doesn't work. The state has restricted to addition of new power generation my entire life. So of course PG&E has to import power from other states requiring higher rates for their customers. Due to the mismanagement of PG&E the company has not kept its infrastructure up to date. Many fires are started by shorts in power lines and equipment that is older than me. If you wanna immediately find common ground with a Californian complain about PG&E. So who is at fault? PG&E and the state government. Since PG&E is essentially a government entity I lay the blame on the state. The problem is that most people have been programmed to believe utilities need to be controlled by government in addition to being monopolies. Its one of the most illogical beliefs to me. Since PG&E is a company people tend to just blame them instead of the politicians and the state. The result is politicians have little incentive to change things. ## The Smelt, Salmon, and Water The [Smelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_smelt) is a small fish that the Salmon eat. There has been a push for many years to restore the historic water ways that are a part of migration paths of the Salmon in California. California's [Central Valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_(California))(North of Southern California) is a massive producer of produce and other agriculture products. The issues around water are complex and the most frustrating thing for me, a person that was born and raised in the state is how the issues are rarely discussed in rational ways considering trade-offs. Instead there are usually just two sides presented. 1. The farmers need water so we need to build more water storage(dams). 2. We need to restore the historic water ways of the state and the specifically the historic Salmon runs through those water ways. I don't have a problem with either of these goals. The issue is that they are in opposition to each other. The fact is that water is needed by farmers in the Central Valley as well as people in Southern California. Southern California would not support the current population without the water from other places being funneled to that region. The farming industry of Central California would also not exist without sufficient water. Additionally the diversion of natural water flows via dams also has reduced flood risks in the state. So when you hear people talking about stealing water or SoCal doesn't have the water it needs this is a bit of context you might not hear. The state has done a terrible job managing water over the past 20 years. ## The Historic and Natural Occurrence of Wild Fires Over my lifetime I have watched as humans have build homes in areas that historically are prone to wild fires. As a kid in the government school system I was taught about forestry management. How the state and federal forestry services would clear dead brush, execute controlled burns, and cut fire lines to help prevent out of control wild fires. Even with this policy there was never a guarantee that homes could be protected but it does seem like that policy helped keep them smaller. What many people do not understand about wild fires is that they are natural and needed. When the population of California was sparse there weren't any fire fighters putting out fires. They would just burn themselves out. The [giant sequoia trees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum) actually depend on wild fires to a certain extent. These fires would burn out the dead growth as well as smaller trees making way for only the strongest to survive. With the massive population growth of California over the past 100 years fire fighters have began to fight this form of nature. Like many natural forces this usually only postpones the inevitable. Its a tough decision. Do you let natural do its thing or protect people. Growing up the policy was to protect people. This meant putting out fires that threatened humans and their property. This included what I mentioned before. Logging, clearing out dead growth, controlled burns as well as other methods. In recent years the policy has shifted away from these policies and it is clear to me the results are disastrous. Once again trade-offs are rarely discussed when the government changes policy. Of course doing controlled burns affects air quality. Climate change is often mentioned as a reason to suspend controlled burns but it is clear to me that's just kicking the can down the road. The fires are going to happen. It is just a matter of time. ## Human Expansion In my opinion the single largest factor in these fires is the fact that humans have expanded into areas that historically are often cleared by wild fires. When government policy prioritized humans the risk would be reduced but instead of this the state has prioritized "environmental" interests. What makes this worse is that the state has also put their finger on the scales in regard to insurance. Once again, I rarely hear the fact that more people are living in forests as a massive factor. I have traveled all over the state over the last 30 years and the growth is incredible. I don't have a problem with his growth but you have to recognize the risk. In a free market insurance should handle this issue of risk. ## The Role of Insurance Insurance is all about calculating risk. If you seek insurance the higher your risk the higher the premium. On both ends of the scale of risk both parties will not enter into an agreement. If the risk is very low individuals will not naturally see a need for insurance. Insurance companies LOVE to sell insurance with low risk. The opposite is true. If your risk is high an insurance company cannot provide assurances of payment. The thing people most miss about insurance is that they play the role of evaluating risk. They are incentivized reduce risk, much more than the state. Recently insurance companies have stopped offering polices in California due to introduction of price controls and the state's forestry polices. In some of the areas now burning these companies have declined to renew fire polices. Why? Because the risk was to high. That should tell us something. ## What Is the Answer Remove regulations altering the natural market force of insurance. If an area is very risky insurance should be high. That is a signal that can very well save lives. I think people should be allowed to live on any property they own or rent. They should be able to do so without insurance as well. But insurance should be allowed to do what it does. Reduce risk and provide a valuable signal to the market. The same goes for power utilities. There needs to be a removal of the monopoly held by PG&E. They need to build nuclear plants in the state to provide power for the growing population. I believe the market, if allowed to operate would fix these issues. When it comes to environmentalism the state should pick a side. People, or environmentalism. If they pick environmentalism they should not bail out the insurance companies and restrict building back in areas affected by wild fires. To be clear, I oppose that position because I don't believe it is actually good for the environment of California and its destructive to human life. The other path is to return to managing the forests. Restore the forestry practices that worked for decades. Allow insurance to operate as a free market and listen to the market signals. When it comes to water its a similar situation. The reality is until farming practices change to be more regenerative and if the population level continues to grow the state is going to have to build more water storage and divert the natural flow of water. Humans are competing for resources with Salmon. I would love to see California restored to a more natural state but the reality is that will not be possible without a drastic population decrease and more fires like this. I don't think the people actually want that. They have been lied to for decades by politicians and environmentalists. I know this is a long post, there is much more I could say and I'm sure I'll hear it in the comments but I tried to keep this short. Its a very complex issue that the state and Newsom largely own. They will try to distract with many other things but this is where the focus should be IMO. originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/848838

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Trauma has a way of completely upending our lives. One second, everything feels like it’s on track, and the next you’re standing in the middle of a mess. Your world gets turned upside down, and nothing feels certain. I know that feeling all too well. The pain, the doubt, the confusion. Will you ever find your way back to something that feels stable again? The hardest part of trauma isn’t just dealing with the pain. It’s trying to figure out where God is in all of it. When life has shattered your sense of security, when you’ve lost your trust in people or in a church that once felt like home, it’s hard to see how faith fits into the picture anymore. I get it. I’ve been there. Whether it’s because of abuse, betrayal, heartbreak, or even something like a divorce or unexpected loss, **trauma can make your faith feel like it’s been ripped out from under you.** For me, that sense of losing everything wasn’t just a sudden thing. It was more like the slow unraveling of trust. It started with little things: a judgmental comment here, a hurtful glance there. But over time, it became something so big I couldn’t ignore it. At some point, the hurt from others became so loud that I couldn’t even hear my own prayers anymore. I felt lost, confused, and alone. Like everything I had built my faith on - everything I believed to be true - had been shaken to its core. The church I grew up in, the people I trusted, the God I thought I knew, they all seemed distant, unreachable, unloving. **The Struggle to Trust Again** One of the hardest things about rebuilding your faith after trauma is wondering *Can I trust God again?* When everything has gone wrong and you’ve been hurt by the very people who were supposed to support you, it’s natural to question everything, especially your faith. For me, this struggle started when I experienced deep hurt in the church. A fellow church member who I trusted violated that trust in ways I can’t even put into words. It shook me to the core. I had always been told that church was a safe place, a place to find healing and community. But when that safety was ripped away from me, and I felt exposed, vulnerable, and completely lost. Then came the judgment. Not just from the people around me, but the way I felt God’s judgment in my own heart. I wondered, *How could God love me after what happened?* The shame I felt wasn’t just from the abuse I had gone through. It was made worse by my belief that I had somehow done something wrong. I had sinned in some way that made me unworthy of God’s love. Trauma often leads us to question not just our circumstances, but our very worth. We start asking, *Do I even matter?* And when your faith feels so shook, those questions can leave you feeling even more disconnected. It feels like you’ve lost everything. The security, the trust, the sense of peace that you once had. And it can be hard to see how you could ever feel close to God again. But guess what? It’s okay to ask those hard questions. It’s okay to feel like you don’t have all the answers. In fact, it’s in the wrestling, the doubt, and the messiness of life that faith often grows the most. **God Understands Your Pain** When you’re in the middle of trauma, its easy to feel like you’re facing it alone. I know the feeling of pain so heavy that it seemed like God was nowhere to be found. But it took me ten years to realize this: God gets it. **He really does**. Jesus Himself faced unimaginable pain. He was betrayed by His closest friends. He was abandoned in His darkest hour. He was falsely accused, beaten, and crucified. I can’t imagine a more painful, traumatic experience than that. But Jesus didn’t run from the pain. He entered into it. He didn’t look at our suffering from a distance; He walked right through it with us. He knows what it feels like to have everything ripped away, and He’s not afraid of your pain. In reality, He’s closer than you think. I love how Psalm 34:18 (NLT) puts it: *“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.”* God is near to you, even in your brokenness. He understands what you’re feeling, and He’s not turned away by your hurt. You don’t have to hide your pain from Him. He’s there, sitting with you in the silence, in the grief, in the questions. If you’re feeling like you’ve lost everything, I want to remind you that God is *still* with you. Even in the darkest moments, He is closer than you realize. You might not feel it right now, but that doesn’t mean He isn’t there. **It’s Okay to Ask Hard Questions** Faith isn’t about having all the answers. If anything, it’s about learning how to trust even when you don’t understand. If you’re in a season of doubt, don’t let anyone tell you that you shouldn’t question God. I’ve spent so many hours wrestling with the big questions about life, God, and faith. It’s not easy. There are moments when you feel like you’re drowning in your doubts, when you wonder if God is even real, let alone good. Asking hard questions doesn’t mean you’re losing faith. **It means you’re seeking truth.** And seeking truth is exactly what God wants us to do. Jesus didn’t shy away from hard questions. In fact, He welcomed them. When His disciples had doubts, He didn’t rebuke them. He encouraged them to keep seeking, keep asking, and keep trusting. If you’re struggling, remember this: It’s okay to not have everything figured out. Faith is a journey, not a destination. And sometimes, the journey involves walking through the hard questions, the doubts, and the uncertainty. It’s not about having all the answers. **It’s about holding onto hope, even when everything else feels uncertain.** **God’s Love Is Unconditional** One of the hardest lies I believed after my trauma was that God’s love was conditional. I felt like I had messed up so badly that I didn’t deserve God’s love anymore. I thought that my failures, whether they were the mistakes I made, the hurt I endured, or the sins I struggled with, had somehow disqualified me from His love. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Romans 8:38-39 (NLT) says, *“And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.”* Nothing - hear me: *nothing* - can separate you from God’s love. Not your trauma. Not your mistakes. Not your doubts. God’s love for you isn’t based on how perfect you are or how well you follow the rules. It’s based on His nature. He is love, and He loves you, no matter what. If you’re feeling unworthy, if you’re feeling like you’ve done too much wrong, please know, you are deeply, unconditionally loved by God. His love isn’t something you have to earn. It’s something He freely gives. **Rebuilding Takes Time** There’s no quick fix for rebuilding faith after trauma. There’s no easy formula. It takes time. It takes honesty. It takes grace. And make sure you remember, you don’t have to have it all together right now. And that’s okay. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NLT) says, *“All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.”* As you heal, as you rebuild, you’ll begin to see how your pain can be used to comfort others. I’ve found that the biggest healing happens when we share our stories, when we let others walk with us through our pain. God doesn’t waste our suffering. He uses it to shape us, to grow us, and to help us reach out to others who are struggling in the same way. **You Are Not Alone in This Journey** If you’re walking through trauma and rebuilding your faith, I want you to hear this: You are not alone. I know it feels isolating. I know it feels like no one understands. But I want you to know that God is with you. Even when it feels like everything is falling apart, even when you can’t feel His presence, He is there. You don’t have to walk through this alone. There is a community of people—like me, like you—who are on this journey together. We can be honest about our doubts, our pain, and our questions. Together, we can rebuild, one step at a time. **Take that first step, even if it’s small.** Trust that God is with you in this journey, even when you don’t feel it. Let your pain become a part of your story, not the end of it. Because God is still good, and He’s still faithful, even in the dark. **You are loved. You are not alone. And there is hope.** Love,\ Faith

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It’s one of the hardest questions to ask when you’re in the middle of a tough season: What if I don’t feel God’s presence? Maybe you’ve been through pain, disappointment, or loss, and the one thing that used to make sense, the feeling of God being near, has disappeared. You’ve prayed, you’ve hoped, you’ve waited, but there’s no sense of God’s comforting presence. You’re doing all the right things, but it feels like you’re talking to a wall. This is such a confusing and painful experience. The God who once felt so near now feels so far away, and you’re left wondering, "Why doesn’t He feel close anymore? Did I do something wrong? Does He even hear me?" If you’re in this season, I want you to know: You are not alone. It’s something a lot of Christians wrestle with, and it doesn’t mean your faith is broken or that you’ve done something to earn God’s absence. Sometimes, it’s just part of the journey. It’s okay to ask the hard questions. It’s okay to wonder where God is. It’s okay to not feel His presence right now. But even in those moments of silence, **I want to remind you that God is still there.** ### The Truth About Feeling God’s Presence It’s so easy to think that our relationship with God is all about *what we feel*. In a world that’s constantly telling us to trust our emotions, it’s natural to equate the absence of feeling with the absence of God. But this is what I've learned: God’s presence isn’t always about feelings. God doesn’t pull back from us just because we can’t feel Him. Sometimes, He’s there in ways we don’t recognize or understand. **Maybe He’s there in the quiet, in the peace that comes after the storm**. Maybe He’s there in the small, everyday moments, like the friend who checks in on you or some unexpected encouragement you receive. Those moments can be God, too. The Bible says that God is always with us, even when we don’t feel it. “*The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love, he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing” (Zephaniah 3:17)*. Whether you feel it or not, He’s there, delighting in you. ### God is Present, Even in Silence Sometimes God’s silence is a part of our growth. I know it sounds strange. Why would God be silent when we need Him the most? But think about this: when you’re in a relationship with someone, you don’t always need words to feel connected. You can sit with a friend or loved one in complete silence and still feel their presence. It’s the same with God. Psalm 46:10 tells us, "Be still, and know that I am God." There’s a peace in stillness. A peace that doesn’t depend on what we hear, but instead on trusting that God is who He says He is. Even when we don’t feel Him, we can trust that He’s still God, still good, still present. And that can be enough. ### The Struggle Is Real, and That’s Okay It’s not easy. I get that. It’s hard to hold onto faith when God feels distant, especially when your heart is aching for His comfort and His presence. And sometimes, the hardest part is not knowing when or if things will change. But even in that struggle, I believe God is near. He may be closer than you realize. When you're in that dark shadow of doubt, remember this: **It’s okay to be honest with God about your feelings.** He already knows them. He’s not afraid of your anger, confusion, or frustration. *In fact, He welcomes your honesty.* Psalm 34:18 says, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” If you’re feeling broken or crushed, He’s not far away. He’s near to you, even if you can’t feel Him. ### Trusting God in the Dark What if this season of silence is a chance for you to lean into a deeper trust? Trusting God even when you don’t feel Him is one of the most powerful things you can do. It’s a faith that doesn’t rely on feelings or circumstances but on the unwavering truth that God is faithful, even when we can’t see it. I want to encourage you if you're in this place to keep going. Keep showing up, even when it feels like nothing is happening. Keep praying, even when your prayers feel empty. Keep reading the Bible, even when the words seem distant. **In the dark, sometimes the smallest step forward is enough.** And in that process, you’ll start to find that God's presence is always there, even if it’s not the way you imagined it. ### You Are Not Alone Remember this: **God has not abandoned you**. If you’re struggling with feeling God’s presence, I want to say to you, in gentleness, that there is no shame in that. Your journey with God doesn’t look like anyone elses. It’s okay to walk through seasons of silence, doubt, and wondering. **But please, don’t give up**. Even when you feel nothing, even when your heart feels heavy, God is still there. And He’s still good. His love for you hasn’t changed. Sometimes the most beautiful moments of faith are the ones where we keep going, even when we don’t feel it. And one day, in the quiet of your heart, you’ll realize He’s been with you all along. I’m here for you, walking this journey with you. Keep pressing on. You are loved. Heavenly Father, I feel like I’m walking through a wilderness right now. My heart is questioning, my mind is restless, and my spirit is tired. But I trust that You are still with me, even when I don't feel it. Please grant me peace in this season of silence. Calm my anxious thoughts and help me rest in the assurance that You are holding me close. I don’t have all the answers, but I know You are good, and I know You love me. Help me to lean into Your presence, even when I can’t feel it. Thank You for being my constant, even when I feel lost. Amen.

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My blog posts and reading material have both been on a decidedly economics-heavy slant recently. The topic today, incentives, squarely falls into the category of economics. However, when I say economics, I’m not talking about “analyzing supply and demand curves.” I’m talking about the true basis of economics: understanding how human beings make decisions in a world of scarcity. A fair definition of incentive is “a reward or punishment that motivates behavior to achieve a desired outcome.” When most people think about economic incentives, they’re thinking of money. If I offer my son $5 if he washes the dishes, I’m incentivizing certain behavior. We can’t guarantee that he’ll do what I want him to do, but we can agree that the incentive structure itself will guide and ultimately determine what outcome will occur. The great thing about monetary incentives is how easy they are to talk about and compare. “Would I rather make $5 washing the dishes or $10 cleaning the gutters?” But much of the world is incentivized in non-monetary ways too. For example, using the “punishment” half of the definition above, I might threaten my son with losing Nintendo Switch access if he doesn’t wash the dishes. No money is involved, but I’m still incentivizing behavior. And there are plenty of incentives beyond our direct control\! My son is *also* incentivized to not wash dishes because it’s boring, or because he has some friends over that he wants to hang out with, or dozens of other things. Ultimately, the conflicting array of different incentive structures placed on him will ultimately determine what actions he chooses to take. ## Why incentives matter A phrase I see often in discussions—whether they are political, parenting, economic, or business—is “if they could **just** do…” Each time I see that phrase, I cringe a bit internally. Usually, the underlying assumption of the statement is “if people would behave contrary to their incentivized behavior then things would be better.” For example: * If my kids would just go to bed when I tell them, they wouldn’t be so cranky in the morning. * If people would just use the recycling bin, we wouldn’t have such a landfill problem. * If people would just stop being lazy, our team would deliver our project on time. In all these cases, the speakers are seemingly flummoxed as to why the people in question don’t behave more rationally. The problem is: each group is behaving perfectly rationally. * The kids have a high time preference, and care more about the joy of staying up now than the crankiness in the morning. Plus, they don’t really suffer the consequences of morning crankiness, their parents do. * No individual suffers much from their individual contribution to a landfill. If they stopped growing the size of the landfill, it would make an insignificant difference versus the amount of effort they need to engage in to properly recycle. * If a team doesn’t properly account for the productivity of individuals on a project, each individual receives less harm from their own inaction. Sure, the project may be delayed, company revenue may be down, and they may even risk losing their job when the company goes out of business. But their laziness individually won’t determine the entirety of that outcome. By contrast, they greatly benefit from being lazy by getting to relax at work, go on social media, read a book, or do whatever else they do when they’re supposed to be working.  My point here is that, as long as you ignore the reality of how incentives drive human behavior, you’ll fail at getting the outcomes you want. If everything I wrote up until now made perfect sense, you understand the premise of this blog post. The rest of it will focus on a bunch of real-world examples to hammer home the point, and demonstrate how versatile this mental model is. ## Running a company Let’s say I run my own company, with myself as the only employee. My personal revenue will be 100% determined by my own actions. If I decide to take Tuesday afternoon off and go fishing, I’ve chosen to lose that afternoon’s revenue. Implicitly, I’ve decided that the enjoyment I get from an afternoon of fishing is greater than the potential revenue. You may think I’m being lazy, but it’s my decision to make. In this situation, the incentive–money–is perfectly aligned with my actions. Compare this to a typical company/employee relationship. I might have a bank of Paid Time Off (PTO) days, in which case once again my incentives are relatively aligned. I know that I can take off 15 days throughout the year, and I’ve chosen to use half a day for the fishing trip. All is still good. What about unlimited time off? Suddenly incentives are starting to misalign. I don’t directly pay a price for not showing up to work on Tuesday. Or Wednesday as well, for that matter. I might ultimately be fired for not doing my job, but that will take longer to work its way through the system than simply not making any money for the day taken off. Compensation overall falls into this misaligned incentive structure. Let’s forget about taking time off. Instead, I work full time on a software project I’m assigned. But instead of using the normal toolchain we’re all used to at work, I play around with a new programming language. I get the fun and joy of playing with new technology, and potentially get to pad my resume a bit when I’m ready to look for a new job. But my current company gets slower results, less productivity, and is forced to subsidize my extracurricular learning. When a CEO has a bonus structure based on profitability, he’ll do everything he can to make the company profitable. This might include things that actually benefit the company, like improving product quality, reducing internal red tape, or finding cheaper vendors. But it might also include destructive practices, like slashing the R\&D budget to show massive profits this year, in exchange for a catastrophe next year when the next version of the product fails to ship.  Or my favorite example. My parents owned a business when I was growing up. They had a back office where they ran operations like accounting. All of the furniture was old couches from our house. After all, any money they spent on furniture came right out of their paychecks\! But in a large corporate environment, each department is generally given a budget for office furniture, a budget which doesn’t roll over year-to-year. The result? Executives make sure to spend the entire budget each year, often buying furniture far more expensive than they would choose if it was their own money. There are plenty of details you can quibble with above. It’s in a company’s best interest to give people downtime so that they can come back recharged. Having good ergonomic furniture can in fact increase productivity in excess of the money spent on it. But overall, the picture is pretty clear: in large corporate structures, you’re guaranteed to have mismatches between the company’s goals and the incentive structure placed on individuals. Using our model from above, we can lament how lazy, greedy, and unethical the employees are for doing what they’re incentivized to do instead of what’s right. But that’s simply ignoring the reality of human nature. # Moral hazard Moral hazard is a situation where one party is incentivized to take on more risk because another party will bear the consequences. Suppose I tell my son when he turns 21 (or whatever legal gambling age is) that I’ll cover all his losses for a day at the casino, but he gets to keep all the winnings. What do you think he’s going to do? The most logical course of action is to place the largest possible bets for as long as possible, asking me to cover each time he loses, and taking money off the table and into his bank account each time he wins.  But let’s look at a slightly more nuanced example. I go to a bathroom in the mall. As I’m leaving, I wash my hands. It will take me an extra 1 second to turn off the water when I’m done washing. That’s a trivial price to pay. If I *don’t* turn off the water, the mall will have to pay for many liters of wasted water, benefiting no one. But I won’t suffer any consequences at all. This is also a moral hazard, but most people will still turn off the water. Why? Usually due to some combination of other reasons such as: 1. We’re so habituated to turning off the water that we don’t even consider *not* turning it off. Put differently, the mental effort needed to not turn off the water is more expensive than the 1 second of time to turn it off. 2. Many of us have been brought up with a deep guilt about wasting resources like water. We have an internal incentive structure that makes the 1 second to turn off the water much less costly than the mental anguish of the waste we created. 3. We’re afraid we’ll be caught by someone else and face some kind of social repercussions. (Or maybe more than social. Are you sure there isn’t a law against leaving the water tap on?) Even with all that in place, you may notice that many public bathrooms use automatic water dispensers. Sure, there’s a sanitation reason for that, but it’s also to avoid this moral hazard. A common denominator in both of these is that the person taking the action that causes the liability (either the gambling or leaving the water on) is not the person who bears the responsibility for that liability (the father or the mall owner). Generally speaking, the closer together the person making the decision and the person incurring the liability are, the smaller the moral hazard. It’s easy to demonstrate that by extending the casino example a bit. I said it was the father who was covering the losses of the gambler. Many children (though not all) would want to avoid totally bankrupting their parents, or at least financially hurting them. Instead, imagine that someone from the IRS shows up at your door, hands you a credit card, and tells you you can use it at a casino all day, taking home all the chips you want. The money is coming from the government. How many people would put any restriction on how much they spend? And since we’re talking about the government already… ## Government moral hazards As I was preparing to write this blog post, the California wildfires hit. The discussions around those wildfires gave a *huge* number of examples of moral hazards. I decided to cherry-pick a few for this post. The first and most obvious one: California is asking for disaster relief funds from the federal government. That sounds wonderful. These fires were a natural disaster, so why shouldn’t the federal government pitch in and help take care of people? The problem is, once again, a moral hazard. In the case of the wildfires, California and Los Angeles both had ample actions they could have taken to mitigate the destruction of this fire: better forest management, larger fire department, keeping the water reservoirs filled, and probably much more that hasn’t come to light yet. If the federal government bails out California, it will be a clear message for the future: your mistakes will be fixed by others. You know what kind of behavior that incentivizes? More risky behavior\! Why spend state funds on forest management and extra firefighters—activities that don’t win politicians a lot of votes in general—when you could instead spend it on a football stadium, higher unemployment payments, or anything else, and then let the feds cover the cost of screw-ups. You may notice that this is virtually identical to the 2008 “too big to fail” bail-outs. Wall Street took insanely risky behavior, reaped huge profits for years, and when they eventually got caught with their pants down, the rest of us bailed them out. “Privatizing profits, socializing losses.”  And here’s the absolute best part of this: I can’t even truly blame either California *or* Wall Street. (I mean, I *do* blame them, I think their behavior is reprehensible, but you’ll see what I mean.) In a world where the rules of the game implicitly include the bail-out mentality, you would be harming your citizens/shareholders/investors if you didn’t engage in that risky behavior. Since everyone is on the hook for those socialized losses, your best bet is to maximize those privatized profits. There’s a lot more to government and moral hazard, but I think these two cases demonstrate the crux pretty solidly. But let’s leave moral hazard behind for a bit and get to general incentivization discussions. # Non-monetary competition At least 50% of the economics knowledge I have comes from the very first econ course I took in college. That professor was amazing, and had some very colorful stories. I can’t vouch for the veracity of the two I’m about to share, but they definitely drive the point home. In the 1970s, the US had an oil shortage. To “fix” this problem, they instituted price caps on gasoline, which of course resulted in insufficient gasoline. To “fix” this problem, they instituted policies where, depending on your license plate number, you could only fill up gas on certain days of the week. (Irrelevant detail for our point here, but this just resulted in people filling up their tanks more often, no reduction in gas usage.) Anyway, my professor’s wife had a friend. My professor described in *great* detail how attractive this woman was. I’ll skip those details here since this is a PG-rated blog. In any event, she never had any trouble filling up her gas tank any day of the week. She would drive up, be told she couldn’t fill up gas today, bat her eyes at the attendant, explain how helpless she was, and was always allowed to fill up gas. This is a demonstration of *non-monetary compensation*. Most of the time in a free market, capitalist economy, people are compensated through money. When price caps come into play, there’s a limit to how much monetary compensation someone can receive. And in that case, people find other ways of competing. Like this woman’s case: through using flirtatious behavior to compensate the gas station workers to let her cheat the rules. The other example was much more insidious. Santa Monica had a problem: it was predominantly wealthy and white. They wanted to fix this problem, and decided to put in place rent controls. After some time, they discovered that Santa Monica had become *wealthier and whiter*, the exact opposite of their desired outcome. Why would that happen? Someone investigated, and ended up interviewing a landlady that demonstrated the reason. She was an older white woman, and admittedly racist. Prior to the rent controls, she would list her apartments in the newspaper, and would be legally obligated to rent to anyone who could afford it. Once rent controls were in place, she took a different tact. She knew that she would only get a certain amount for the apartment, and that the demand for apartments was higher than the supply. That meant she could be picky. She ended up finding tenants through friends-of-friends. Since it wasn’t an official advertisement, she wasn’t legally required to rent it out if someone could afford to pay. Instead, she got to interview people individually and then make them an offer. Normally, that would have resulted in receiving a lower rental price, but not under rent controls. So who did she choose? A young, unmarried, wealthy, white woman. It made perfect sense. Women were less intimidating and more likely to maintain the apartment better. Wealthy people, she determined, would be better tenants. (I have no idea if this is true in practice or not, I’m not a landlord myself.) Unmarried, because no kids running around meant less damage to the property. And, of course, white. Because she was racist, and her incentive structure made her prefer whites. You can deride her for being racist, I won’t disagree with you. But it’s simply the reality. Under the non-rent-control scenario, her profit motive for money outweighed her racism motive. But under rent control, the monetary competition was removed, and she was free to play into her racist tendencies without facing any negative consequences. ## Bureaucracy These were the two examples I remember for that course. But non-monetary compensation pops up in many more places. One highly pertinent example is bureaucracies. Imagine you have a government office, or a large corporation’s acquisition department, or the team that apportions grants at a university. In all these cases, you have a group of people making decisions about handing out money that has no monetary impact on them. If they give to the best qualified recipients, they receive no raises. If they spend the money recklessly on frivolous projects, they face no consequences. Under such an incentivization scheme, there’s little to encourage the bureaucrats to make intelligent funding decisions. Instead, they’ll be incentivized to spend the money where they recognize non-monetary benefits. This is why it’s so common to hear about expensive meals, gift bags at conferences, and even more inappropriate ways of trying to curry favor with those that hold the purse strings. Compare that ever so briefly with the purchases made by a small mom-and-pop store like my parents owned. Could my dad take a bribe to buy from a vendor who’s ripping him off? Absolutely he could\! But he’d lose more on the deal than he’d make on the bribe, since he’s directly incentivized by the deal itself. It would make much more sense for him to go with the better vendor, save $5,000 on the deal, and then treat himself to a lavish $400 meal to celebrate. # Government incentivized behavior This post is getting longer in the tooth than I’d intended, so I’ll finish off with this section and make it a bit briefer. Beyond all the methods mentioned above, government has another mechanism for modifying behavior: through directly changing incentives via legislation, regulation, and monetary policy. Let’s see some examples: * Artificial modification of interest rates encourages people to take on more debt than they would in a free capital market, leading to [malinvestment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinvestment) and a consumer debt crisis, and causing the boom-bust cycle we all painfully experience. * Going along with that, giving tax breaks on interest payments further artificially incentivizes people to take on debt that they wouldn’t otherwise. * During COVID-19, at some points unemployment benefits were greater than minimum wage, incentivizing people to rather stay home and not work than get a job, leading to reduced overall productivity in the economy and more printed dollars for benefits. In other words, it was a perfect recipe for inflation. * The tax code gives deductions to “help” people. That might be true, but the real impact is incentivizing people to make decisions they wouldn’t have otherwise. For example, giving out tax deductions on children encourages having more kids. Tax deductions on childcare and preschools incentivizes dual-income households. Whether or not you like the outcomes, it’s clear that it’s government that’s encouraging these outcomes to happen. * Tax incentives cause people to engage in behavior they wouldn’t otherwise (daycare+working mother, for example). * Inflation means that the value of your money goes down over time, which encourages people to spend more today, when their money has a larger impact. (Milton Friedman described this as [high living](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwNDd2_beTU).) # Conclusion The idea here is simple, and fully encapsulated in the title: incentives determine outcomes. If you want to know how to get a certain outcome from others, incentivize them to want that to happen. If you want to understand why people act in seemingly irrational ways, check their incentives. If you’re confused why leaders (and especially politicians) seem to engage in destructive behavior, check their incentives. We can bemoan these realities all we want, but they *are* realities. While there are some people who have a solid internal moral and ethical code, and that internal code incentivizes them to behave against their externally-incentivized interests, those people are rare. And frankly, those people are self-defeating. People *should* take advantage of the incentives around them. Because if they don’t, someone else will. (If you want a literary example of that last comment, see the horse in Animal Farm.) How do we improve the world under these conditions? Make sure the incentives align well with the overall goals of society. To me, it’s a simple formula: * Focus on free trade, value for value, as the basis of a society. In that system, people are always incentivized to provide value to other people. * Reduce the size of bureaucracies and large groups of all kinds. The larger an organization becomes, the farther the consequences of decisions are from those who make them. * And since the nature of human beings will be to try and create areas where they can control the incentive systems to their own benefits, make that as difficult as possible. That comes in the form of strict limits on government power, for example. And even if you don’t want to buy in to this conclusion, I hope the rest of the content was educational, and maybe a bit entertaining\!

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## نوستر الآن **كل تطبيقات نوستر حاليا هي مجرد عميل يتواصل مع مجموعة سيرڤرات متفرقة، نوتديك مختلف كليا** اذا كنت مستخدم لنوستر فانت على الاغبل تعلم ان الطريقة التي نتواصل من خلالها مع البروتوكول هي من خلال تطبيقات تتواصل مع سيرفرات مختلفة (تعرف باسم ريلاي) لارسال واستقبال المنشورات المتنوعة المتعارف عليها في البروتوكول. حتى الان اغلب هذه التطبيقات تتواصل تشكل مباشر مع السيرڤرات، وبصورى عامة هي تؤدي وظيفة محدودة. يمكن تشبيه هذه المرحلة من نوستر بزمن التطبيقات قبل انظمة التشغيل. ## نوستر قريباً **نوتديك هو اشبه بنظام تشغيل لتطوير جميع انواع التطبيقات بدل من ان يكون تطبيق نوستر محدود الميزات** يعمل نوتديك كطبقة ما بين السيرفرات والتطبيقات. يحتوي نوتديك على سيرڤر داخلي يتواصل مع السيرڤرات الاخرى ويقوم باستلام تحديثات الشبكة بشكل دائم. اما المستخدم، فيتفاعل مع نوتديك والسيرڤر المحلي فقط. هذا يسمح للمستخدم في التعامل مع نوتديك حتى لو لم يكن مرتبط بالانترنت، كما ان التواصل سريع جدا من منظور السمتخدم. ## امكانيات لا محدودة **اي مطور بامكانه استخدام الخدمات التي يقدمها نوتديك لتطوير تطبيقات تعمل داخل نوتديك وتستفيد من سرعة السيرڤر الداخلي** الجميل في عالم الكود المفتوح ان المطورين يقومون بتبني الافكار الجيدة والبدء بالبناء عليها بشكل فوري وبدوم قيود الموافقات والبيروقراطية العقيمة الموجودى في الشركات الكبيرة. بدأنا اللآن من رؤية التطبيقات المتوافقة مع نوتديك تظهر. اول مثال هو تطبيق زاب دوت سريم للبث المباشر. وهذه مجرد البداية، تقنياً، اي تطبيق على نوستر يستطيق الاستفادة من هذه الميزات.  ## كيف تستخدم نوتديك؟ **نوتديك مازال في ايامه الأولى، لكن اذا كنت من مستخدمين داموس البتنفسجي أو لديك بعض الخبرة التقنية فيمكن تحميله من موقع github** اذا كنت من مشتركي داموس البنفسجي، يمكنك تحميل نوتديك من هذا الرابط: [notedeck](https://damus.io/notedeck/) اذا اردت استخدام آخر تحديق من نوتديك عليك تحميل لغة برمجة rust بالإضافة إلى بعض تطبيقات الكومبايلنغ ثم تشغيل التطبيق من هذا الرابط: [github-notedeck](https://github.com/damus-io/notedeck) ## للمساعدة اذا احتجتم لمساعدة أو ترغبون في تقديم الدعم في تطوير نوتديك، يمكنكم التواصل مع nostr:npub1nje4ghpkjsxe5thcd4gdt3agl2usxyxv3xxyx39ul3xgytl5009q87l02j للتواصل مع المطور: nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

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 [**Bitcoin**](https://bitcoin.org/)is the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency. As a decentralized digital currency, it has the potential to revolutionize how businesses transact with customers and suppliers, making global transactions quick and easy. This need is especially true in the oil and gas industry. The current system used by oil and gas companies involves high administration costs related to transferring funds across international borders. This is where Bitcoin may offer an effective solution. Using Bitcoin would make payments faster than ever before, with minimal friction and fees incurred during transfers. In addition to reducing fees associated with global payments, Bitcoin could also provide greater visibility into transactions for those involved in the sector. For instance, buyers could ensure that their money arrives at the intended destination without delays or fraud risks. Additionally, transactions are visible on the public ledger contained within Bitcoin’s blockchain technology (See Figure 1). This gives buyers assurance when making large amounts of equipment or resources from another country, as they can see exactly where their money has gone. In turn, these exchanges leave a digital audit trail that would make renegotiating contracts far simpler if needed.  `Figure 1: A detailed page shows the transactions that occurred on Block 768520.` Bitcoin also offers an alternative source of capital for small businesses operating within the oil and gas sector who may find traditional methods difficult due to geographical location or lack of credit history. Through investors buying and selling Bitcoin tokens representing ownership in specific projects within the oil and gas sector, startups can gain access to capital beyond what traditional financing methods may provide them. Finally, I think Bitcoin presents a shift away from fiat currencies as it allows buyers to convert money into a cryptocurrency before use in any transaction within Oil & Gas sector worldwide — allowing users to cut out intermediaries such as banks or third-party currency exchanges altogether while simplifying everyday processes such as ordering supplies or getting invoices paid on time by avoiding expensive cross-border fees that come with traditional payment solutions such as wire transfers or checks. In addition, by utilizing this innovative technology, oil & gas companies have instant access to the funds they need when processing domestic & international payments based on previously agreed pricing structure, thus avoiding long waiting periods for invoices sent via postal mail that can leave companies unable to manage payroll schedules. *Published on Early 2021.* **Republished on Nostr 1/13/25**

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Imagine playing a MMO gen 1 Pokémon game, the goal of the game is still personal, to be the Pokémon league champion. To get to the Pokémon league, you need to defeat gym leaders and get their badges (if you never played, please play so you can relate and teach this lesson too) Some players just go through the storyline right away, some have fear and grind levels hard, some just wanted to chill and catch ‘em all Some got stuck at the mew rumour at S.S.Anne\* and got disappointed, some grind too hard that they forgot the main quest, some try to teach other people how to be a champion before being a champion themselves If you are not interested in being the champion, that is totally fine, it is your game after all. Some enjoy the up and down of the journey and they just don’t want to finish the game yet. I respect these people because they know what they want and they’re doing what they can to get what they want But there’s this special group of players that wants to be the champion, but are misled to believe they can be a ‘better’ champion if they do these special tasks before fighting the Elite Four. Can be from a game guide magazine, a friend that you think is smart, whatever. The sad truth is, you cannot be a ‘better’ champion in this game — and these guys just got misled their whole life Now, these guys do meet other players that told them “hey, just go fight the Elite Four, that’s the only way for you to be champion”, and they kept replying “please respect me, I know I have to beat the Elite Four, I just want to be a ‘better’ champion, you just don’t understand”. These players get stuck in some sort of internal pride war sunk cost fallacy because they have spent their whole life trying to be a ‘better’ champion that actually doesn’t exist Now why this story? This is life. No matter how hard you try, you still need to follow the main storyline. You can change your path, but everyone’s end goal eventually converge — eternal peace. When you become the league champion, you attain the ability to serve and radiate love. Evil spirits will forever try to hold you back from being a champion, some religion even tells you that you can be a ‘better’ champion. But really all you need to do is stay humble and stack sats, I mean, start the main quest One day when you actually become a champion, you will realize that the only way to live is to serve other people so we all become champions. Because life is best enjoyed with the people we love --- \*https://gaming-urban-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Mew_Under_the_Truck

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###### Originalni tekst na [thebitcoinmanual.com](https://thebitcoinmanual.com/blockchain/lightning-chain/) --- *Lightning Network* (eng. *lightning* - munja, *network* - mreža) je jedno od primarnih rešenja za skaliranje Bitkoin mreže sa ciljem da je više ljudi može koristiti na različite načine čime bi se zaobišla ograničenja glavnog blokčejna. *Lightning* mreža deluje kao "drugi sloj" koji je dodat Bitkoin (BTC) blokčejnu koji omogućava transakcije van glavnog lanca (blokčejna) pošto se transakcije između korisnika ne registruju na samoj blokčejn mreži. *Lightning* kao "sloj-2 (*layer-2*)" pojačava skalabilnost blokčejn aplikacija tako što upravlja transakcijama van glavnog blokčejna ("sloj-1" / *layer-1*), dok istovremeno uživa benefite moćne decentralizovane sigurnosti glavnog blokčejna, tako da korisnici mogu ulaziti i izlaziti iz *Lightning* mreže koristeći *custodial* ili *non-custodial* servise u zavisnosti od sopstvene sposobnosti i znanja da koriste glavni blokčejn. Kao što i samo ime govori *Lightning Network* je dizajnirana za brza, instant i jeftina plaćanja u svrhu sredstva razmene i druga programabilna plaćanja kojima nije potrebna instant konačnost (*finality*) ali ni sigurnost glavnog lanca. *Lightning* je najbolje uporediti sa vašom omiljenom aplikacijom za plaćanja ili debitnom karticom. #### Šta je *Lightning* mreža? *Lightning* mreža vuče svoje poreklo još od tvorca Bitkoina, Satošija Nakamota, ali je formalizovana od strane istraživača *Joseph Poon*-a i *Thaddeus Dryja*-a koji su 14. januara 2016. godine objavili [beli papir](https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf) o *Lightning Network*-u. Radilo se o predlogu alternativnog rešenja za skaliranje Bitkoina da bi se izbeglo proširenje kapaciteta bloka Bitkoin mreže i smanjio rizik od centralizacije blokčejna. 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Kada je uspostavljen, ovaj kanal im omogućava da međusobno šalju neograničen broj transakcija koje su istovremeno gotovo instant i veoma jeftine. Ponaša se kao svojevrsna mala "knjiga" (*ledger*) koja omogućava korisnicima da plaćaju još manje proizvode i usluge poput kafe i to bez uticaja na glavnu Bitkoin mrežu. #### Kako radi *Lightning Network*? *Lightning Network* se zasniva na pametnim ugovorima koji su poznati kao *hashed time lock contracts* koji između dve strane kreiraju platne kanale van glavnog blokčejna (*off-chain payment channels*). Kada zaključate BTC na glavnom lancu u ovim posebnim pametnim ugovorima, ova sredstva se otključavaju na *Lightning* mreži. Ova sredstva zatim možete koristiti da biste napravili platne kanale sa ostalim korisnicima *Lightning* mreže, aplikacijama i menjačnicama. Ovo su direktne platne linije koje se dešavaju na vrhu, odnosno izvan glavnog blokčejna. Kada je platni kanal otvoren, možete izvršiti neograničen broj plaćanja sve dok ne potrošite sva sredstva. Korišćenje *Lightning* sredstava nije ograničeno pravilima glavnog Bitkoin lanca i ova plaćanja se vrše gotovo trenutno i za samo delić onoga što bi koštalo na glavnom blokčejnu. Vaš platni kanal ima svoj sopstveni zapisnik (*ledger*) u koji se beleže transakcije izvan glavnog BTC blokčejna. Svaka strana ima mogućnost da ga zatvori ili obnovi po svom nahođenju i vrati sredstva nazad na glavni Bitkoin lanac objavljivanjem transakcije kojom se zatvara kanal. Kada dve strane odluče da zatvore platni kanal, sve transakcije koje su se desile unutar njega se objedinjuju i zatim objavljuju na glavni blokčejn "registar". #### Zašto biste želeli da koristite *Lightning* mrežu? --- **Trenutno slanje satošija** *Lightning Network* je "sloj-2" izgrađen na vrhu glavnog Bitkoin lanca koji omogućava instant i veoma jeftine transakcije između *lightning* novčanika. Ova mreža se nalazi u interakciji sa glavnim blokčejnom ali se plaćanja pre svega sprovode *off-chain*, van glavnog lanca, pošto koristi sopstvenu evidenciju plaćanja na *lightning* mreži. Razvijene su različite aplikacije koje su kompatibilne sa *Lightning* mrežom, koje su veoma lake za korišćenje i ne zahtevaju više od QR koda za primanje i slanje prekograničnih transakcija. Možete deponovati BTC na vaše *lightning* novčanike tako što ćete slati satošije sa menjačnica ili ih kupovati direktno unutar ovih aplikacija. Većina ovih novčanika ima ograničenje od nekoliko miliona satošija (iako će se ovaj limit povećavati kako više biznisa i država bude prihvatalo Bitkoin) koje možete poslati po transakciji što ima smisla budući da je za slanje većih iznosa bolje korišćenje glavnog blokčejna. **Pokretanje sopstvenog čvora** Kako se više ljudi bude povezivalo sa *lightning* mrežom i koristilo njene mogućnosti, sve više ljudi pokreće svoje čvorove radi verifikacije transakcija putem svojih *lightning* platnih kanala. Kroz ove kanale je moguće bezbedno poslati različite iznose satošija, a takođe je moguće zarađivati i male naknade za svaku transakciju koja prolazi kroz vaš kanal. **Transakcione naknade** Uprkos trenutnim transakcijama, još uvek postoje transakcione naknade povezane sa otvaranjem i zatvaranjem platnih kanala koje se moraju platiti rudarima na glavnom blokčejnu prilikom finalizacije *lightning* platnih kanala. 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## Brief intro #glostr is a pet-project of mine to better understand how #nostr works. Since I'm an engineer, and somewhere between a game programmer and a graphics programmer, I'll do what I do best: write some graphics thing no one (but me) will use. ## Zappable Shadertoy So, the idea is to create a small platform on top of #nostr where people can create, visualize, and share computer graphics programs (aka: shaders). Code shiny thing, see shiny, share shiny thing, and zap shiny thing. If you're familiar with [Shadertoy](https://shadertoy.com), #glostr is just that: **zappable shadertoy**.  ## Milestone Zero So, first step was to write a quick and dirty prototype client (remember, I specc'd into game dev, not into web dev, so I really mean _quick_ and I really mean _dirty_). I got an [ace editor](https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace) thing working, duct-taped it to a basic WebGL render, stole a couple shaders from shadertoy (jk, I gave credit), poured some CSS magic, glued some `nostr-rx`, and published it to GitHub pages. After 2 or 3 days of iterating, and with some assistance from an LLM, you can see the result linked on my [notes](nostr:nevent1qqsf45hy66cw55e3s2ewt6upe3m073q875hmjjtyyre7qtaxw9hl5scpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgq3qu3svk99639mcdfn43s2nawg4a2j4ejmgrq2n63l4t67wzqdmtnkss70qyf). Yes. I used `kind 1` posts to spam GLSL code. I AM SORRY. I KNOW BETTER NOW. I SWEAR. So, right now #glostr is: - Taking an npub on the url after the # - Rendering all `kind 1` posts from that npub containing GLSL code between \`\`\`s - Allowing the user to edit the code in real time  ## Next Steps What now? [Gorila](nostr:npub19tv378w29hx4ljy7wgydreg9nu96czrs6clu8wkzr3af8z86rr7sujx4xe) made me realize my _obvious_ `kind 1` spamming. After some brainstorming and skimming through NIPs and kinds, we arrived at the conclusion that [Long-form Notes (NIP-23)](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/23.md) are best suited for the content I want #glostr to display: - Format is Markdown, which I like and which I was already somewhat expecting. - It's editable content, so mistakes can be amended, which is more than usual in shader programming. So, the next features I want to add are: - Logging in - Posting NIP-23 Notes - Getting, parsing, and showing NIP-23 Notes ## When I'll only work on this on the weekends for now, so I don't know. This is a pet project for fun right now. ## Wrapping Up - Repo: https://github.com/rowdaboat/glostr - Try it: https://rowdaboat.github.io/glostr/ As this is a Long-Form Note in itself, I'll finish it by sharing a shader based on [Inigo Quilez's awesome polygon shader](https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wdBXRW). This note should show as a shader on #glostr in the next iteration, but you can copy and paste the code in the editor for now: ```glsl #version 300 es precision mediump float; uniform vec2 u_resolution; uniform float u_time; out vec4 fragColor; const int N = 6; vec3 yellow = vec3(0.45, 0.3, 0.15); vec3 lightBlue = vec3(0.65, 0.85, 1.0); float polygon(in vec2 p, in vec2[N] v) { const int num = v.length(); float d = dot(p - v[0], p - v[0]); float s = 1.; for(int i=0, j=num-1; i < num; j=i, i++ ) { vec2 e = v[j] - v[i]; vec2 w = p - v[i]; vec2 b = w - e * clamp(dot(w, e) / dot(e, e), 0.0, 1.0); d = min(d, dot(b,b)); bvec3 condition = bvec3( p.y >= v[i].y, p.y < v[j].y, e.x * w.y > e.y * w.x ); if (all(condition) || all(not(condition))) s =- s; } return s * sqrt(d); } void main() { vec2 p = (2.0 * gl_FragCoord.xy - u_resolution.xy) / u_resolution.y; float d = polygon(p, vec2[]( vec2( .2, .8), vec2(-.5, -.125), vec2( .0, -.125), vec2(-.2, -.8), vec2( .5, .125), vec2( .0, .125) )); vec3 color = d < 0.0 ? yellow : lightBlue; color *= 1. - exp(-40. * abs(d)); color *= .8 + .2 * sin(10.0 * d - 10. * u_time) * sin(-1.25 * u_time); color *= exp(1. - d * 2.25); fragColor = vec4(color, 1.0); } ```

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This is my first attempt of regularly reviewing my week (currently, week 2) and I want to take you along for it. This week was one where I was rebooting after all the festivities, personal obligations and a bit of travel! First, I worked on getting back on some comments on my proposals on [NIP-42](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1609) and the [Transport Method Announcement NIP](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1585). ### NIP-42 proposal The responses to the proposal of the NIP-42 exstension confused me a bit, my interpretation of nip42 AUTH was both authentication and authoriziation. But as it turns out people only want authentication to be part of this NIP, which is understandable. I'm wondering what other structure should be used for authorization then. I thought this would be a great place because of the similar allow/disallow mechanism that applies to both authentication and authorization. I get the argument that authorization would need to be handled somewhere else. In my case i want authorization by payment. meaning there is no Authentication, we don't care who it is. I worked out this comment, to see what other options would come up. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1609#issuecomment-2577243988 ### Evaluating current state Epoxy It's been a little bit since I made any progress on epoxy, but this week i'm picking it back up. So i'm trying to see what my next steps on it will be. I thought first maybe i need to add the random delays, but that's in the bigger scheme of things a 'nice to have'. I should probably first work on fixing the nightmare that is unencrypted traffic. And for that, i need pubkey addressing to work properly. ### Evaluating current state CI/CD This week i met up with Auggie, who's quite knowledgable into CI/CD stuff. I think a cool short-term goal for myself is to get an automated build and publish of the epoxy docker container. That shouldn't be too hard to attain, but I needed to refresh my memory on what I last worked on for a bit. I realized that that was a very hacky approach and i really want to know Auggie's perspective on it. I came across his comment on my [blogpost about it](https://habla.news/u/arjen@swissdash.site/chaining-dvms-for-nostr-cicd-pipelines) which i'd missed earlier. My doubt is wether i should try to rebuild what CI/CD is from scratch, but nostr-native. Or should I strive to have something backwards-compatible and use existing GitHub/Gitea runners? In our call we settled on trying to get the runner approach working and see how we go from there. I'd work out a GitHub action so we could upload artifacts to Blossom and he'd look into the inner workings of Gittea as he had worked on the stack before. ## Blossom uploads GitHub action I tried to move forward on the Blossom uploads on friday but got stuck on imports that would just not resolve on the github action (`ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED`). Long story short, I was just not bundling my build properly and (spoiler) worked this out on Monday. ## In short Quite an alright week, ramping up my efforts now and i'm exited for what's coming. See you next week!

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# Introduction: This governance report highlights Dora Factory's voting activity across multiple blockchain ecosystems, including Cosmos, Celestia, dYdX, Kaia, Osmosis, and Injective. It provides insights into the strategic considerations guiding Dora Factory’s decisions, emphasizing their role in supporting ecosystem growth, fostering innovation, and enabling sustainable blockchain development. ----------- # Proposals: ## Cosmos [2024-11-22 Cosmos Proposal 980 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/980) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 980, approving the increase of the minimum deposit for Cosmos Hub governance from 250 $ATOM to 500 $ATOM to reduce spam. [2024-11-25 Cosmos Proposal 976 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/976) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 976 to revive channel-341 to Bostrom by replacing the expired client state, restoring the channel's functionality. [2024-12-03 Cosmos Proposal 981 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/981) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 981, supporting the whitelisting of Ark Protocol to deploy Interchain NFT contracts on Cosmos Hub. This proposal aims to enable minting, bridging, and managing NFTs on the Hub, enhancing governance and interoperability with other chains. [2024-12-13 Cosmos Proposal 982 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/982) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 982 to whitelist Ark Protocol’s developer wallet for deploying InterChain NFT contracts on Cosmos Hub. The contracts aim to enhance governance and interoperability by enabling NFT transfers across app chains and supporting collaboration within the ecosystem. [2025-01-09 Cosmos Proposal 984 YES](https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/984) Dora Factory voted YES on Cosmos Proposal 984, approving funding for Hydro’s development in 2025 and reallocating 180,000 ATOM from the community pool. It also supports transferring Hydro's PoL profits to a treasury controlled by Hydro voters and the Cosmos Hub community. [2025-01-09 Cosmos Proposal 985 YES](https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/985) Dora Factory voted YES on Cosmos Proposal 985, approving $650k in funding for Hypha to manage Cosmos Hub testnets and mainnet operations in 2025. The funds, consisting of $200k USDC and 86,538.46 ATOM, will support testnet stewardship, mainnet coordination, ICS support, and onboarding for Interchain Inc. ## Celestia [2024-12-13 Celestia Proposal 4 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/celestia/proposals/4) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 4 to increase the SignedBlocksWindow from 5000 to 10000. This change will extend the time available for validators to restore their nodes during emergencies from 1h45min to 3h30min, ensuring sufficient time to address downtime issues and maintaining pre-upgrade slashing parameters. ## dYdX [2024-11-22 DYDX Proposal 187 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/dydx/proposals/187) Dora Factory voted YES on proposal 187 to whitelist new VIP affiliates for the dYdX VIP Affiliate Program. The vote supports affiliates who will help increase engagement and growth by earning up to 50% of referred user taker fees, capped at $10,000 per referral. [2024-12-03 DYDX Proposal 189 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/dydx/proposals/189) Dora Factory voted YES to cease support for the wethDYDX Smart Contract (the Bridge) by June 2025. The proposal formally notifies ethDYDX holders, with a follow-up on-chain vote scheduled for approximately six months later to finalize the discontinuation. [2024-12-18 DYDX Proposal 192 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/dydx/proposals/192) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 192 to allocate $4M from the Treasury subDAO’s protocol revenue to fund the dYdX Ecosystem Development Program (DEP) for the remaining 14 months of its term. This funding will support ongoing initiatives and enable the DEP to continue driving growth within the dYdX ecosystem. The proposal also includes changes to the DEP Trustees, replacing two current members with Lemma Solutions and Polkachu. [2024-12-19 DYDX Proposal 193 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/dydx/proposals/193) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 193, which allocates $1.5M in DYDX tokens from the dYdX Chain Community Treasury to 2,587 qualifying users for their participation in Trading Season 7 of the dYdX Incentives Program. The allocation follows a review of trading data to ensure rewards are given to genuine participants, with full transparency available on the dYdX Chaos Labs Risk Portal. [2025-01-07 DYDX Proposal 198 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/dydx/proposals/198) Dora Factory voted YES on dYdX Proposal 198 to delist low-activity markets. The proposal targets markets with less than $1,000 in 24-hour trading volume and under $10,000 in open interest. By delisting these markets, dYdX aims to improve resource allocation, focusing on more active markets to enhance platform performance and user experience. ## Injective [2024-11-21 Injective Proposal 463 Abstain](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/463) Dora Factory voted Abstain on the proposal to whitelist TruFin’s uploader address for deploying its liquid staking contracts on Injective. TruFin intends to launch its TruStake solution on the Injective blockchain to integrate multi-chain liquid staking into the network. [2024-11-22 Injective Proposal 464 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/464) Dora Factory voted YES on the proposal to adjust the minimum quantity tick for the AGENT/INJ market from 100 to 0.1, aiming to enhance the trading experience for markets with low prices. [2024-12-02 Injective Proposal 465 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/465) Dora Factory voted YES to approve the final OLP performance for epoch 39 and the distribution of 39,958.193 INJ, including 19,958.201 INJ from epoch 36 and 19,999.992 INJ as 50% of epoch 39 rewards. Remaining rewards will be distributed with epoch 42. [2024-12-04 Injective Proposal 466 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/466) Dora Factory voted YES to whitelist the Talis deployer address: inj1dqsfaj4y8pu2elakf3k6fgzcunclam86xjhn9c. [2024-12-13 Injective Proposal 469 Abstain](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/469) Dora Factory abstained on Proposal 469, which proposes storing the Auction DAO smart contract on the Injective blockchain to enable permissionless collective bidding in burn auctions. [2024-12-20 Injective Proposal 470 Abstain](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/470) Dora Factory abstained on Proposal 470, which requests to whitelist the Hydro Protocol developer wallet to streamline smart contract deployments without requiring individual governance proposals for each one. [2024-12-31 Injective Proposal 471 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/471) Dora Factory voted YES on Injective Proposal 471, which proposes adjustments to leverage and margin requirements across multiple perpetual futures markets. The maximum leverage for BTC/USDT and ETH/USDT PERPs will increase from 20x to 50x, while EUR/USDT and GBP/USDT PERPs will rise from 50x to 100x. Other markets, including SOL/USDT, BNB/USDT, and AAVE/USDT, will see leverage increases from 20x to 25x. Additionally, some markets will have leverage standardized to 10x, and the maker fee rebate for PENGU/USDT will be reduced by half. [2025-01-01 Injective Proposal 472 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/472) Dora Factory voted YES on Injective Proposal 472, supporting a reduction in the INJ token supply parameters (inflation_min and inflation_max) to 4.625% and 8.875%, aligning with the deflationary goals of INJ 3.0 tokenomics. [2025-01-01 Injective Proposal 473 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/473) Dora Factory voted YES on Injective Proposal 473, confirming the final institutional performance for epoch 40 of the Open Liquidity Program and distributing 39,999.981 INJ tokens, with 50% of the epoch 40 rewards to be disbursed later. [2025-01-05 Injective Proposal 474 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/474) Dora Factory voted YES on Injective Proposal 474, supporting the adjustment of fee tier thresholds and increased taker discounts for various tiers, while maintaining trading volume requirements. [2025-01-07 Injective Proposal 475 Abstain](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/475) Dora Factory abstained on Injective Proposal 475, which proposes adopting AGENT as the official AI mascot to promote Injective's AI initiatives and enhance user engagement. [2025-01-08 Injective Proposal 476 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/injective/proposals/476) Dora Factory voted Yes on Injective Proposal 476, which will settle the FTM/USDT PERP market. Open positions will be closed at the oracle price when the proposal is approved. ## Kaia [2024-12-20 Kaia Proposal 12 Yes](https://square.kaia.io/Proposal/Detail?id=12) Dora Factory voted YES on Kaia Proposal 12 to approve a KAIA payment worth $140,000 for the development and maintenance of ‘Kaiascan.’ The funding will support new features like enhanced statistics, a rich list, an Open API service, and a banner ad model to improve user experience and data transparency. ## Osmosis [2024-11-22 Osmosis Proposal 866 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/866) Dora Factory voted YES to update the expired IBC light-client for dHealth. The proposal replaces the expired client (07-tendermint-3205) with the newly created substitution client (07-tendermint-3357). [2024-11-23 Osmosis Proposal 867 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/867) Dora Factory voted YES to increase nBTC's static limit within Alloyed BTC to 10%, aligning with the completed nBTC audit and supporting the Nomic bridge's adoption. [2024-11-26 Osmosis Proposal 868 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/868) Dora Factory voted YES to substitute the IBC light client for Konstellation, enabling resumed cross-chain transfers between Konstellation and Osmosis. [2024-11-27 Osmosis Proposal 869 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/869) Dora Factory voted YES on the proposal to allocate 70,000 USDT and up to 140,000 USDC from the Osmosis community pool to establish a liquidity position. The proposal aims to enhance stability for the USDT/USDC pairing, improve liquidity during volatility, and generate minor revenue for the community pool. [2024-11-28 Osmosis Proposal 870 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/870) Dora Factory voted Yes to add cbBTC.axl to Alloyed BTC with a 10% static limit. This expands Bitcoin access on Osmosis through Base and the Axelar bridge, while managing risk with the set cap. [2024-12-03 Osmosis Proposal 871 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/871) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 871 to increase the static rate limit for USDT.inj, USDT.sol.pica, and USDT.eth.wh within Alloyed USDT from 20% to 40%. This adjustment aims to accommodate market demand, enhance liquidity in popular variants, and manage risks associated with less-utilized variants. [2024-12-05 Osmosis Proposal 874 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/874) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 874, which expands the list of assets allowed for pseudo-permissionless pool creation until Proposal 819 is implemented. [2024-12-06 Osmosis Proposal 875 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/875) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 875, which substitutes the IBC light client for Konstellation to resume cross-chain transfers between Konstellation and Osmosis. [2024-12-08 Osmosis Proposal 876 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/876) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 876, which whitelists the Magma Vaults dev wallet to deploy automatic liquidity management solution contracts to manage liquidity positions in concentrated liquidity pools. [2024-12-10 Osmosis Proposal 877 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/877) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 877 to deploy 50,000 ATOM to the Margined Redemption Rate Arbitrage Strategy. This strategy aims to enhance ATOM liquidity, support the peg of ATOM LSTs, and generate protocol fees, while maintaining consistent returns similar to ATOM staking APR. [2024-12-10 Osmosis Proposal 878 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/878) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 878 to deploy 19,200 TIA to the Margined Redemption Rate Arbitrage Strategy. The strategy aims to enhance TIA liquidity, support TIA LST peg stability, and generate protocol fees, delivering consistent returns comparable to TIA staking APR. [2024-12-12 Osmosis Proposal 879 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/879) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 879 to upgrade Osmosis to v28.0.0, scheduled for December 17th. The upgrade includes fixes for security and performance. [2024-12-12 Osmosis Proposal 880 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/880) Dora Factory voted YES on Proposal 880 to renew the Osmosis Grants Program (OGP) for 12 months with a budget of $1.35M in OSMO tokens. The program will focus on sourcing high-impact initiatives, releasing semi-annual reports, and continuing OGP’s success with projects that benefit Osmosis and the broader ecosystem. [2024-12-22 Osmosis Proposal 881 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/881) Dora Factory voted YES on Osmosis Proposal 881, which suggests allocating 25% of the Osmosis protocol’s non-OSMO taker fees to purchase Bitcoin for liquidity provisioning. This BTC will primarily support the BTC/USDC liquidity pool, enhancing price depth and volume on Osmosis. The proposal also adjusts the taker fee distribution, shifting 45% to stakers, 30% to the community pool, and 25% to BTC purchases. [2025-01-03 Osmosis Proposal 882 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/882) Dora Factory voted YES to deploy 1.07 BTC and 60,000 USDC into the Locust Vault for a more concentrated BTC/USDC liquidity position. This aims to improve liquidity, capture more volume, and reduce slippage during volatility, with any excess funds returning to the Osmosis Community Pool. [2025-01-06 Osmosis Proposal 883 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/883) Dora Factory voted YES on Osmosis Proposal 883 to increase the static cap for USDT.eth.wh from 40% to 75%. This adjustment aims to accommodate growing demand. [2025-01-06 Osmosis Proposal 884 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/884) Dora Factory voted YES on Osmosis Proposal 884 to increase the static cap for USDT.eth.wh from 40% to 75%. This change aligns with growing demand for the asset, allowing for a more controlled expansion of the USDT. [2025-01-08 Osmosis Proposal 885 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/885) Dora Factory voted YES on Osmosis Proposal 885, which adjusts the set of Superfluid pools to support the OSMO decoupling initiative. This proposal removes Superfluid from variant pools and focuses it on alloyed assets like USDC, BTC, ETH, and SOL to promote migration and growth. [2025-01-08 Osmosis Proposal 886 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/886) Dora Factory voted YES on Osmosis Proposal 886, which adjusts Superfluid pools to support the OSMO decoupling initiative. The proposal aims to encourage the migration of assets from variant to alloyed assets by approving Superfluid pairings for USDT, BTC, ETH, and SOL. This adjustment supports the OSMO token's increased independence and fosters the growth of alloyed assets. [2025-01-08 Osmosis Proposal 887 Yes](https://www.mintscan.io/osmosis/proposals/887) Dora Factory voted YES on Osmosis Proposal 887, which proposes deploying ETH and BTC from the community pool into a Margined liquidity strategy. This will increase liquidity for the ETH/BTC pair on Osmosis, which has been limited, while generating yield for the community pool. 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*Ich begann, Social Media aufzubauen,* *\ um den Menschen eine Stimme zu geben.* *\ Mark Zuckerberg* **Sind euch auch die Tränen gekommen, als ihr Mark Zuckerbergs** **[Wendehals-Deklaration](https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/1525382954801931)** bezüglich der Meinungsfreiheit auf seinen Portalen gehört habt? Rührend, oder? Während er früher die offensichtliche Zensur leugnete und später die Regierung Biden dafür verantwortlich machte, will er nun angeblich «die Zensur auf unseren Plattformen drastisch reduzieren». **«Purer** **[Opportunismus](https://transition-news.org/facebook-grunder-zuckerberg-vom-trump-gegner-zum-trump-buddy-und-anti-zensor)» ob des anstehenden Regierungswechsels wäre als Klassifizierung** viel zu kurz gegriffen. Der jetzige Schachzug des Meta-Chefs ist genauso Teil einer kühl kalkulierten Business-Strategie, wie es die 180 Grad umgekehrte Praxis vorher war. Social Media sind ein höchst lukratives Geschäft. Hinzu kommt vielleicht noch ein bisschen verkorkstes Ego, weil derartig viel Einfluss und Geld sicher auch auf die Psyche schlagen. Verständlich. > «Es ist an der Zeit, zu unseren Wurzeln der freien Meinungsäußerung auf Facebook und Instagram zurückzukehren. Ich begann, Social Media aufzubauen, um den Menschen eine Stimme zu geben», sagte Zuckerberg. **Welche Wurzeln? Hat der Mann vergessen, dass er von der Überwachung,** dem Ausspionieren und dem Ausverkauf sämtlicher Daten und digitaler Spuren sowie der Manipulation seiner «Kunden» lebt? Das ist knallharter Kommerz, nichts anderes. Um freie Meinungsäußerung geht es bei diesem Geschäft ganz sicher nicht, und das war auch noch nie so. Die Wurzeln von Facebook liegen in einem Projekt des US-Militärs mit dem Namen [«LifeLog»](https://norberthaering.de/macht-kontrolle/lifelog/). Dessen Ziel war es, «ein digitales Protokoll vom Leben eines Menschen zu erstellen». **Der Richtungswechsel kommt allerdings nicht überraschend.** Schon Anfang Dezember hatte Meta-Präsident Nick Clegg von «zu hoher Fehlerquote bei der Moderation» von Inhalten [gesprochen](https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24311513/meta-content-moderation-mistakes-nick-clegg). Bei der Gelegenheit erwähnte er auch, dass Mark sehr daran interessiert sei, eine aktive Rolle in den Debatten über eine amerikanische Führungsrolle im technologischen Bereich zu spielen. **Während Milliardärskollege und Big Tech-Konkurrent Elon Musk bereits seinen Posten** in der kommenden Trump-Regierung in Aussicht hat, möchte Zuckerberg also nicht nur seine Haut retten – Trump hatte ihn einmal einen «Feind des Volkes» genannt und ihm lebenslange Haft angedroht –, sondern am liebsten auch mitspielen. KI-Berater ist wohl die gewünschte Funktion, wie man nach einem Treffen Trump-Zuckerberg hörte. An seine [Verhaftung](https://transition-news.org/nicht-telegram-grunder-durow-sondern-zuckerberg-sollte-in-haft-sitzen-wegen-des) dachte vermutlich auch ein weiterer Multimilliardär mit eigener Social Media-Plattform, Pavel Durov, als er Zuckerberg jetzt [kritisierte](https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/ende-des-faktenchecks-bei-meta-telegram-gruender-kritisiert-zuckerberg-und-spricht-warnung-aus-li.2287988) und gleichzeitig warnte. **Politik und Systemmedien drehen jedenfalls durch** – was zu viel ist, ist zu viel. Etwas weniger Zensur und mehr Meinungsfreiheit würden die Freiheit der Bürger schwächen und seien potenziell vernichtend für die Menschenrechte. Zuckerberg setze mit dem neuen Kurs die Demokratie aufs Spiel, das sei eine «Einladung zum nächsten [Völkermord](https://archive.is/PYeH0)», ernsthaft. 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**Excerpt:** A controversy over intellectual property highlights the lack of Bitcoin institutions to resolve disputes. Key fact 1: A bitcoiner takes action against another bitcoiner based on intellectual property laws Key fact 2: the dispute revolves around similarities in bitcoin clocks -------------------------------------------  > "What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee." Marcus Aurelius Someone who identifies as a bitcoiner, who creates successful bitcoin products aimed at providing sovereignty and privacy to the user but who indirectly calls on the State to initiate force against another bitcoiner, is that person really a bitcoiner? Or rather, despite being a bitcoiner, is their behavior in accordance with the ethos of Bitcoin, with the essential moral principles driven by the Bitcoin phenomenon? When there is a dispute within Bitcoin's layer one about how things should be done, it is resolved through the unparalleled dispute resolution and governance mechanism based on proof of work. On the other hand, when there is a dispute in Bitcoin's layer zero, which is composed of individuals who act as nodes and collaborators of the[basilisk]( https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrq3qzr48lerhhdtf42tyt7cfcx8ld5drtpr6fthals2galsxl9dqpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7q3q9nsxj76rpstyzk2s8zgacxf2xzm66k7rxplyxl7zdrc2k8hr607qxpqqqqqqznzfrul) how should we resolve disputes? The trigger for this article is the news that a few weeks ago the bitcoiner[djuri]( http://njump.me/nevent1qqst22qclvkw7p8fqhcukrcc6m8unjh0ppp72t9heq8gf89eeu82qagpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsyg94zfaq3nenv938fqq2gwrcsx5lnrsyh8phz9hf9hjj2pycvdwyygpsgqqqqqqsp40qy3)was legally summoned by the bitcoiner[NVK]( https://njump.me/npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8) because the latter understood that the former had violated his "intellectual property rights." The legally summoned party, djuri, is the creator of a product that according to NVK would have some characteristics that would make it somewhat similar to a product he made and whose "intellectual property" -fiat- he has registered. That is to say, NVK invoked the force of the State -fiat- with the intention that it be applied against djuri. And it did so with the intention of defending its "intellectually" registered property.  > *--- "Intellectual property is a valuable asset that must be protected and respected by everyone."* - Bill Gates. A registration of "intellectual property" consists of an entry in a state registry -fiat- where the person registering the "right" -fiat- petitions the State -fiat- to initiate coercion, force, violence, and threats against anyone whom the State interprets as violating that "right" -fiat-. Likewise, that registration grants the registrant the "right" -fiat- to petition the State to interpret that their "right" has been violated. And in the event that the latter shares the interpretation made by the registrant, the State can then activate its intrinsic mechanism of threats, violence, and coercion against the aforementioned violator of the "right" -fiat-. Most of current positive law is fiat law and its mostly contradictory to natural law. The former is a fictional state invention based on the myth of authority, while the latter is rationally deduced from the principles of Nature. Natural law is the Bitcoin of law.  * > --- "Intellectual property is the foundation of innovation and progress in modern society." - Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States. Intellectual property is a completely fiat fiction. Natural law absolutely rejects the artificial legal aberration created by authoritarian legislators. The institution of private property only makes sense to protect scarce goods. Let's see an example: Alice has an apple and is hungry, but since she is busy posting on Nostr, she decided to eat it later. Thirty minutes later, she goes down to her kitchen and can't find the apple. It turns out that Bob, her roommate, ate it. Alice reproaches Bob for the action because, despite having bought the apple and having it in her possession, she lost it due to Bob's action and is still hungry. Alice understands that the interruption of the nutritional and gustatory pleasure that the apple would have provided constitutes a harm to her person. Since she was the owner of the unique and irreproducible object consisting of the totality of molecules that, when linked together, formed the apple existing in the physical space where Alice and Bob reside. Furthermore, Alice understands that once the apple is eaten by one person, it cannot be eaten by another. Therefore, Alice concludes that she has suffered a harm. And considering the objective development of the facts, she attributes that damage to Bob. The attribution of damage occurs during a discussion they have in the kitchen of their house, which unfolds as follows: Alice: *-“What the fuck Bob, you ate my fruit again. I want to beat the shit out of you. You better move your ass straight into the fruitshop right now and you bring me two apples or hell is gonna break loose”* To which Bob, seeing that Alice is a bit irritable, and feeling guilty for his previous incorrect action of having deprived Alice of her fruit, heads to the fruitshop, buys two apples with his money, and hands them to Alice with a smile and an apology. In this way, nature was balanced, a small injustice was resolved, and Alice and Bob can continue to cooperate mutually in peace and with the aim of growing individually as well as in their community. This favorable outcome occurred due to respect for the institution of private property. Now let's look at a second example. One that involves "intellectual" private property. Charlie is composing a song in a shared area of his co-living space. While experimenting with different sound arrangements over time, Daniel passes by and hears a particular melody that catches his attention and sticks in his memory. Subsequently, Charlie releases a song with that melody, and more or less at the same time, Daniel does the same. Therefore, we arrive at the situation where two product creators have generated content that partially shares certain elements. Content consumers of Daniel as well as of Charlie can enjoy both compositions indistinctly. Likewise, both Daniel and Charlie can enjoy all the zaps the market sends them, all the fame their songs have created, all the ticket sales for shows that, due to taking place in the physical world, have limitations on reproducibility, all the sales of both physical and digital merchandise, all the fame their works bring them, all the sponsors that fame attracts, all the various future contracts that come their way thanks to their previous works, all the awards they deserve for their works, etc., etc., etc. In summary: each of the digitally supported content creators can enjoy all the fruits that the current and future market grants them as a reward for their contribution to humanity. While at the same time, all users of their works can enjoy the created songs indiscriminately and without limitations.  This happens because in the physical world, when someone eats an apple belonging to another person, the latter is left without eating it. Whereas in the digital world, when someone listens to a song, no one is left without listening to it. For those who want to delve deeper into the glaring contradiction of the fiat intellectual property institute, I recommend any product of the extensive work of Stephan Kinsella. Libertarian lawyer specializing in patents who has developed the topic in a rational, extensive, and sufficiently convincing manner. > --- "Intellectual property is a state monopoly that restricts freedom of expression and innovation." - Stephen Kinsella, in "Against Intellectual Property" I clarify that I do not suggest that every bitcoiner must necessarily repudiate the fiat institution of intellectual property. We are living through a transition between two worlds, and each person is adapting to the institutions of the new reality at their own pace. Personally, I see that Bitcoin is incompatible with the fiat State and it´s fiat intellectual property racket. In the long run, one of the two will have to change, and it won't be Bitcoin. In the meantime, it is up to each bitcoiner to lean more towards open source code - as Bitcoin does - or towards closed source code, as driven by fiat-state intellectual property laws. ### Call to reason What I do propose as an urgent and essential cultural necessity within the bitcoin community is to avoid resorting to the State to solve problems among bitcoiners. An invitation of a third party that relies on armed goons and professional extortionists to fulfill its purposes is something that can be avoided. Sometimes the most important actions we can take are actually inactions. In matters of dispute resolution, in issues related to how to deal with others, we tend to err more by incorrect actions than by incorrect inactions. The neo-institutions of Bitcoin law, anarcho-capitalism, or crypto-anarchism necessary to resolve disputes without calling for the intervention of unwanted third parties are under development and are another essential element for the recovery of human freedom. Meanwhile, to not initiate force on others should be our guiding principle. With Bitcoin, we managed to remove money from the hands of the States. With Nostr, we managed to remove social networks and public information from the tyrannical and authoritarian control of the narrative. With new institutions based on natural law and rational dispute resolution, we will succeed in removing the power to dispense justice from the hands of the fiat lords. ------------------------------------------- Camilo JdL at 878.992 timechain. If you find this content helpful, zap it to support more content of the sort and to boost the V4V model.

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ในปี 1975 มหาวิทยาลัย Yale ได้ทำการศึกษาจากกลุ่มคนที่มีอายุตั้งแต่ 50 ปีจำนวน 660 คน ในหัวข้อ ความเห็นที่มีต่อ “การสูงวัยขึ้น(aging)” กลุ่มที่หนึ่ง มีความเห็นและความเชื่อที่เป็นด้านบวก ทั้งในเรื่องสุขภาพ ความคิด ความคาดหวังที่ดี เมื่อแก่ตัวขึ้น กลุ่มที่สอง มีความเห็นและความเชื่อที่เป็นด้านลบ ประมาณว่า “การออกกำลังกายไม่ได้ทำอะไรให้ดีขึ้นหรอก ยังไงก็ต้องป่วย ต้องตายอยู่ดี” ปรากฎว่า เมื่อผ่านไป 23 ปี กลุ่มที่หนึ่งมีอายุขัยเฉลี่ยมากกว่ากลุ่มที่สอง ถึง 7.6 ปี ซึ่งเป็นตัวเลขที่แตกต่างกันมาก การศึกษานี้ต้องการจะบอกอะไรกับเรา? แน่นอนว่า ผลลัพธ์ทุกอย่าง เกิดขึ้นได้ จากการกระทำ เวลาที่เราวางแผนจะลงมือทำอะไร ล้วนแต่เริ่มต้นจาก การตั้งเป้าหมาย ทั้งสิ้น แต่คำถามคือ เมื่อบรรลุเป้าหมายแล้ว ยังไงต่อ? ข้อเสียอย่างหนึ่ง ของการตั้งเป้าหมายโดยมีรากฐานมาจากผลลัพธ์ที่ต้องการ คือ เรามีแนวโน้มที่จะ “หยุดทำ” เมื่อได้ผลลัพธ์ที่ต้องการแล้ว ยกตัวอย่างเช่น การลดน้ำหนัก เราชอบมองเรื่องของการลดน้ำหนักเป็นเหมือน การจัดแคมเปญ โดยมีช่วงเวลาที่กำหนด และเมื่อบรรลุเป้าหมาย เราก็กลับมามีพฤติกรรมแบบเดิม ซึ่งทำให้น้ำหนักที่ลดลงไป กลับมา James Clear ผู้เขียนหนังสือชื่อ Atomic Habits ได้กล่าวว่า แค่การวางแผน และลงมือทำ ไม่ได้นำมาซึ่งผลลัพธ์ที่ยั่งยืน แต่สิ่งที่สำคัญกว่า ที่เราต้องทำคือ การกำหนดตัวตนของเราใหม่ เวลาที่เราต้องการลดน้ำหนัก 10 กิโล ให้เรามองลึกลงไปกว่าการวางแผนเรื่องการกิน และการออกกำลังกาย แต่ให้ตั้งเป้าหมายว่า “ต่อไปนี้ฉันจะเป็นคนที่ เลือกกินที่แต่ของที่มีประโยชน์ และจะออกกำลังกายสม่ำเสมอ” “ฉันไม่ใช่คนที่ชอบกินขนมและของที่มีน้ำตาลสูง” “ฉันเป็นนักกีฬาที่เข้มงวดต่อตารางฝึกซ้อม” การกำหนดตัวตนของเราใหม่ เป็นเหมือนการปรับเปลี่ยน Mindset ถ้าเรา “โฟกัส” ลงไปที่แก่นของพฤติกรรมแล้ว “ผลลัพธ์” แบบที่เราต้องการจะมาเอง และยั่งยืนกว่า การศึกษาของมหาวิทยาลัย Yale เป็นข้อพิสูจน์ของเรื่องนี้ได้อย่างดี เพราะกลุ่มคนที่มีความเชื่อที่เป็นด้านบวก จะให้ความสำคัญต่อการออกกำลังกายมากขึ้น หยุดกินเหล้า หยุดสูบบุหรี่ และใช้เวลาอยู่กับคนที่มีมุมมองเป็นบวกเหมือนกัน เมื่อเราได้ติดสินใจแล้วว่า คนแบบไหนที่เราต้องการจะเป็น พฤติกรรมต่างๆในชีวิตประจำวันของเราจะค่อยๆ เปลี่ยนไป และจะยิ่งเห็นผลชัดเจนขึ้นเรื่อยๆในระยะยาว เรา คือผลลัพธ์ของ สิ่งที่เราลงมือทำ เรา คือผลลัพธ์ของ การตัดสินใจของเรา

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# **Hackathon 总结** [JAMHacks 8](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/jamhacks8) 于滑铁卢大学举办，汇集了高中生开发者在6月7日至9日的36小时活动中创造了40个项目。Hackathon 的目标是让科技社区对高中学生更加开放，在E7大楼提供了各种面对面的研讨会和活动。这次 hackathon 在不同类别中展示了创新项目，包括最佳新手 Hack、最佳硬件 Hack 和最佳区块链 Hack，促进了技术创造力和技能发展。 著名奖项包括为一等奖得主颁发的 Instax Mini 胶片相机和迷你音箱，其他奖项则有 Arduino 套件和 Keychron 键盘等。专门的赛道如 Adobe Express 挑战激发了创造性扩展，而 MATLAB 和 TinyMCE 等工具的工作坊则促进了学习。活动表彰了在区块链领域如 Starknet 的创新，以及创意和技术卓越。Hackathon 有效地培养了新技能、想法和联系，最终在不同兴趣领域产生了多样的技术进步。 # **Hackathon 获奖者** ### **Overall Top Prize Winners** - [TouchUp](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13414)：使用 Holo-Touch 技术和 AI 模型将普通设备转换为触摸屏，基于手势控制。它利用了 MediaPipe、OpenCV 和 Pynput。 - [Signematic](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13405)：提供媒体的即时手语翻译，通过机器学习和手势模型提高可访问性，使用 Beautiful Soup、Three.js 和 Node.js。 - [FITRIS](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13409)：将健身与游戏相结合，使用 OpenCV 将锻炼动作转化为俄罗斯方块控制，构建于 Flask 后端和 React JS 前端。 ### **Hardware Track Prize Winner** - [BioTron](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13373): 自动化植物浇水系统，利用AI和TCP/IP协议实现高效的植物维护，设计有自浇水花盆和热插拔模块。 ### **Beginner Track Prize Winner** - [gnome biome](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13408): 一个帮助管理压力的健康网站，提供AI地精建议，结合 TinyMCE 进行笔记和情绪月历跟踪。 ### **Solo Developer Track Prize Winner** - [Dreamweaver](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13410): 一个探索梦境干预的游戏，玩家通过洞察功能影响梦境事件。 ### **Marketing Track Prize Winner** - [Geese S.H.E.E.T.](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13387): 通过附在衬衫上的IP摄像头检测鹅粪，使用 Python 脚本搭载 Roboflow 和 Fusion 进行模型训练。 ### **Game Development Track Prize Winner** - [Mind-Mart](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13368): 一个通过引人入胜的游戏机制提高心理健康意识的教育游戏，展示与状况相关的场景。 ### **Blockchain Track Prize Winner** - [Doctors On Dial](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13402): 基于区块链的平台，用于安全、高效的医疗数据传输，使用 MatLabs、NEAR 和 JavaScript，包括用于癌症检测的 AI 分析。 ### **Best Use of Near Protocol Prize Winner** - [YapChain](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13388): 基于 NEAR 的去中心化社交媒体平台，设计用于安全、匿名的数据管理，提供独特的用户体验和区块链集成。 ### **Best Warp/Dev Tool Prize Winner** - [GripGuardian](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13396): 通过传感器提供手部健康分析的符合人体工学的鼠标，实时姿势反馈通过全面的网络应用提供。 ### **Best Use of TinyMCE Prize Winner** - [MemorEase](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13395): 通过记忆日记的数字可视化增强痴呆症患者的社会连接，利用 OpenAI API 和 vis.js 进行视觉图表化。 ### **Best Use of Adobe API Prize Winner** - [Signematic](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13405) ### **Best Use of Starknet Prize Winner** - [UNiDLoan](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13412): 是一个区块链应用，连接学生和投资者提供研究贷款，使用 Next.js、MongoDB 和 NEAR 代币进行安全交易。 ### **Best Use of MATLAB Prize Winner** - [AnyJAMS](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/13351): 实时工具演奏评估的卡拉OK，使用 Flask 和 MATLAB，通过 xcorr 等高级算法提供表演反馈。 查看 JAMHacks 8 的所有创新项目，请访问[官方网站](https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/jamhacks8/buidl)。 # **关于组织者** ### **JAMHacks** JAMHacks 是一个积极的组织，致力于通过动手技术项目促进高中生的创新。凭借对包容性和技能培养的承诺，JAMHacks 主办的活动有超过200名学生参与，共同协作创造性技术解决方案。通过提供研讨会和指导，组织帮助参与者专注于项目开发，强调学习、连接和创新。JAMHacks 继续培育年轻人才，为他们在未来的科技成功做准备。欲了解更多信息，请访问其网站 [jamhacks.ca](https://www.jamhacks.ca/)。