If Musk woke up one day and decided to turn X into a Nostr based system: - Issued keys to every user account and allowed users to collect their keys or bring their own - Signed every message retroactively - Turned their internal servers into relays so users could collect the now nostr-compliant notes, or post them without being logged in; also for non-X clients to read notes from X relays - Enabled zap support But X still: - Required you to have a user account for the npub notes to be accepted by their relays - Refused to accept and relay notes that violated their terms and services ie. moderated their relays - Terminated user accounts if/when a user violated their rules enough times - Maintained premium subscription tiers that restricted the types of data their relays would handle What would you think about X, and Elon himself, if this were to be done? Personally I think it's not an ideal system, but it would be a massive improvement over the current. I also think it might actually be something he could be convinced to do.

It is always at least a little frustrating when you get told by a company how much they value honesty and integrity, but then explicitly defines harassment as violence, and defines harassment so that being offended counts even if the statement is true. Sometimes I'm in a good mood and shrug it off, sometimes I seriously consider providing a demonstration of the difference between words and violence in person. How does everyone else deal with it?

If only the people I'm trying to reach on X were actually over here, then I wouldn't have to run headfirst into the damn censorship when I speak out of turn. Though perhaps I dodged a bullet, so if I did, let's make sure it actually lands by saying it here: @ATFHQ We the PEOPLE coming for you, ATF. The best case is we fire all of you, and throw some of you in jail following trial. The worst case is we revolt and kill you all in the street like dogs. Let's hope our better nature wins. You are on borrowed time.

Calling it now: Friday-Saturday is going to come with some power outages, communication issues, and potentially some serious hardware issues. It will be in an indiscriminate, uneven fashion similar to the net problems a few months back everyone thought was a major hack.

WARNING: We are now on a time crunch. Swift, the payment network that backbones the banking system will have full CBDC infrastructure active within 12-24 months. This spells the end of the ability to buy bitcoin directly and escape the system. If bitcoin is still only a store of value by then, we will be slaves to the central planners. We have that long to make mass-scale payment infrastructure work on bitcoin. That long to make bitcoin work for billions of people rather than millions. That long until the currency advantages of lightning are matched by CBDC and are no longer so impressive. It's not long enough, so we have no time to waste.

When dealing with cyberspace, there are always 3 elements. First, there is an interface. This is a web browser, app, etc and the hardware it runs on. Then there is the avatar. This is the identity that the user is controlling through the interface. Finally there is the digital space itself. On Amazon, the interface is a browser or app, the avatar is the user account or guest profile, and the digital space is the online store and media gallery. On twitter, the interface is the same, the avatar is the account, and the digital space is the Twitter cesspool. In nearly all of cyberspace, two or even all of these elements are owned by a single company, usually the space and avatar. The spaces are separate and disconnected, and users have no true control over their avatar except that which is permitted. Except for one. Within the nostr system, the interface is a client, like Primal or Damus, the avatar is wholly owned and controlled, and while the space has private and public "land", it has no owner nor can have one. All other platforms could be adapted to Nostr, and work effectively the same, but the spaces would be truly connected. Now the question is how to simplify that for the layman.

With all of the work being done by gov to go after "cybersecurity threats" I'm beginning to think we need to show them just how secure we can make our non-bitcoin networks with bitcoin. A server firewall could be set up to refuse 100% of connections that aren't directly accompanied by a successful lightning payment of some significant value. Then you still need the proper login credentials. If you have the right login, the payment will be refunded, but if not, the server takes the payment as cost for wasting it's time. For ultra secure servers, this could be done via on-chain transaction rather than lightning. Pretty confident that such a server would easily survive a head2head hackathon with any nation state.

Finding myself in the unpleasant predicament of needing to sell some of my stack over the next month or two for survival, and knowing that those sats could have been the down payment on a house a couple years from now. Painful.

Gonna piss some people off with this, but this is an excellent take on Bitcoin from someone who is pro-bitcoin, but not blinded by it. Learn to create value and teach your descendants to do the same, or they will absolutely lose all the bitcoin they inherit.

My greatest bitcoin fear: In 2035, I can by as many goods and services with my BTC as it can currently buy me today, but a simple loaf of bread takes the average person 16 hours of labor to earn.

Anyone else think it odd how many people facing charges or lawsuits have had their lawyers fail to properly check a box on a legal form, and then the defendant and their lawyer say they actually did fill it out right? Cryptographic proof is more necessary than ever.