Investor Joseph Kennedy Senior, sold all of his stocks and investments right before the 1929 stock market crash that introduced the world to The Great Depression. While not causing the crash, a high profile investors selling is potential fuel for contagion. Weakened after WW1 this depression caused the UK and a number of other countries including Australia and Canada to suspend the gold standard never to return, to support their economies with 'financial stimulus' money printing. Joseph Kennedy Sr. made large financial investments at these bargain basement prices, cementing his families fortune. President Roosevelt then made Kennedy the first chairman of the US Security Exchange Commission SEC in 1934 the same year that the Gold Reserve Act was passed, restricting individuals from owning gold. And he passed the first law preventing insider trading.

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Every time I notice little steps have been taken to remove my online freedoms and privacy, I take little steps in the other direction and gain them back.

Memorising a seed phase is worth the effort. After you can recall it easily, it's the feeling you have a new skill, like juggling or learning to drive.

I think future nostr users could have extra privacy, if the protocol allowed generation of new npubs from the master nsec, like bitcoin receive addresses. It would make tracking and direct marketing difficult. There would be challanges, as right away searching for npubs would be broken.

I recommend watching the independent movie 'Mr Fantastic'

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