> I think supply transparency and simplicity are still useful properties of sound money that you want to last for centuries You can have supply transparency, simplicity, AND fungibility. It’s called Grin.

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The entire point of “government” and “politics” is the protection of women and children. The *entire* point. Everything is downstream from that.

Philosophically speaking, Erlang is the greatest programming language ever created.

“They’re calling it the most bloated app of all time…” “More than Ditto??” View quoted note →

Are NIP-5 identifiers sort of the new bluecheck? Seems like a really easy way to do spam filtering. Just filter out anyone that doesn’t have an NIP-5. If a domain is giving them out for nothing, just heavily downrank NIP-5’s from that domain. What am I missing?

“But we’ve tried to do paid relays and nobody pays!!” Have you tried using USD? A simple subscription with auto-pay? Genuinely asking. View quoted note →

Strong desire to watch Jaws… Summer is here…

This is actually insane. How are people talking about Samouri at all when this happened?

Bitcoin News

Roman Sterlingov | Bitcoin Mixer Founder Fights 30-Year Sentence

Roman Sterlingov, founder of Bitcoin Fog, faces up to 30 years for money laundering after being convicted in March 2024.

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Remember everyone: you do not own your data on Nostr. The relays do. “But I can run my own relay! I can even support NIP-70! It’s my data!” “MUST” in an NIP means “WON’T”. You own the rope that you hang yourself with. That’s all you own. Nostr is the “congrats you played yourself” protocol.

Do most nostr clients use NIP-70 by default? It basically gets you understandable data spread. It’s how people assume nostr works to begin with. Turning off NIP-70 should be the exception, not the default. Reserved for people that are trying to get famous and spread a message.

NIPs

NIP 70 - Protected Events — Nostr Implementation Possibilities

When the "-" tag is present, that means the event is "protected". A protected event is an event that can only be published to relays by its author....