Daily reminder: Bitcoin price is not rising. This is not an ATH. It's just fiat devaluing rapidly. They're printing money like crazy. BTC ATH was at 41 oz gold. We're at 35,36 oz now. Let that sink in.

Only very few people know, that Sharp Character Display (1983) represents a pivotal technology that significantly changed the course of computing development in several ways: - It helped democratize color graphics capabilities at a time when most computer displays were still monochrome (green, amber, or white phosphor on black). - The ability to display complex color visualizations, as shown in that 3D wireframe model, opened new possibilities for scientific, engineering, and business applications that previously required specialized and much more expensive equipment. - This type of display technology helped bridge the gap between purely text-based computing and the graphical user interfaces that would later dominate computing. - The introduction of affordable color displays accelerated software development in areas like computer-aided design (CAD), scientific visualization, and early computer graphics—fields that fundamentally shaped modern computing. I still remember seeing one of those for the first time. We were just blown away, like we were looking at something out of this world.

Still no ATH. Far away from it.

Last year, I wrote a guide on how to create backups using rsync on Mac and Linux. Many people around me use these strange programs with graphical user interfaces that end up letting them down when they actually need to restore their backups. Today, I expanded the article to include a section on how to automate these backups with cronjob.

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This article explores a simple, low-tech method for securing your work files.

To put it simply: Our ATH was around 103,000€ View quoted note →

So if this is the new ATH, then the value of the Dollar itself has significantly decreased against the Euro. Because Bitcoin isn't yet at a value of 100,000€. But it was already there earlier this year. That means, when you blockheads out there define terms like ATH and measure it in Dollars, you're falling for the same fiat phenomenon, devaluation through inflation, that the fiat guys fall for. And Trump robs you faster than our German politicians rob us.

Public school in Uganda accepting Bitcoin. Let that sink in. View quoted note →

Interesting critique. And instead of reacting with cult-like, knee-jerk defensive responses like most commentators there, we should actually engage with it. You know, proof of work and all that. I generally agree with the arguments. However, they're only valid if you compare Nostr to today's professional platforms. That's where I think the reasoning falls short. I don't compare Nostr to Meta, Twitter, or LinkedIn; I compare it to the early weblog scene around the turn of the millennium. Of course, we don't have the notable talents here yet. Those come with professional venture capital. And VC only arrives after pioneers have laid the groundwork. What was so great about Twitter and Facebook? Where was their innovation? There wasn't any. They simply simplified and improved what the blogosphere had already created. Comments, sharing, discoverability... all of that existed already. These companies with their venture capital just moved into a ready-made nest and solved or simplified just one problem: If you were a blogger back then, but you were, well, a bit too ordinary, you really struggled to find your audience. So they centralized everything and put an algorithm behind it. That was it. You could find other interesting blogs on Technorati, weblogs.com, or similar services and comment on their posts with your weblog's URL. But that was too complicated for normies. You could share across weblogs, but it was called trackback and pingback. And they were just as unreliable and hardly usable as Zaps are today. Too complicated for the average person. There were trends and early influencers, but they were hard to discover in a WWW-distributed weblog system (that was real decentralization back then, by the way). Commercial platforms took all of that and bundled it under one central interface. Similar to what Primal is trying to do today, actually. When all swimmers splash around in one lake, even the biggest idiot can find their fish. What is Nostr doing? Nostr is also playing at social media, but trying to give decentralization and sovereignty back to the user. It's social media in the sense that we've silently accepted that without an audience → no motivation → quick abandonment of the medium. When it comes to the other aspects, sovereignty and decentralization, Nostr is back at pioneer level. Like the weblogs back then. There were only a few scene-internally known stars back then. Movable Type tried, but lost the competition and disappeared. b/2 caffelog was forked and as WordPress now makes up more than 40% of all CMSs on the web. Many others came and went. Only Matt Mullenweg from that time is still known today. It all took a decade until the VC-backed platforms and with them the talented developers and names arrived. We're not even 3 years old. Being a pioneer doesn't equal talent aknowledged by others. Pioneers do something whose value is only recognized later, and then only those survive who have learned from other pioneers' mistakes. 90% of pioneers sink forgotten into history, but they have also nourished the success of those few known names. Otherwise, I agree with the other arguments. The development must become more professional if it must scale. "Vibe coding" ... best forget that term. It's only suitable for unscalable proof of concepts at best. Automated tests before deployment must become standard, as well as usability engineers and real designers. It's not acceptable that with every Yakihonne update, something breaks that worked perfectly before. It's not acceptable that we'll still be fiddling around with PubKeys and Nsecs in 10 years. The situation with simple, NWC-capable Lightning wallets is currently catastrophic. And don't get me started with the onboarding process. Professionalization efforts need to be supported just as much as vibe-coded PoCs. With Bitcoin too, if necessary. We've already gone through a third of the 10 years that such a technology needs to become professional. And the voices demanding more quality are getting louder. It's about time we silence such criticisms. View quoted note →

I'm proud to announce that I'm celebrating my one-year anniversary today. Exactly one year ago, I deleted my quite active Twitter account, and since then I've been using Nostr exclusively. 🎉

The Nostr industry here seems to be missing several things on their radar, like this topic. Overall, many Nostr entrepreneurs are behaving as if they're in the Wild West and laws don't apply to them. It's like they're going through that teenage "I'll do whatever I want" phase. They're far from professional maturity and definitely not grown up yet. Many of them are going to have a rude awakening soon. View quoted note →

Very good reflection! (Retweeted by @Saifedean Ammous on X) I had similar thoughts and therefore asked if there has ever been a society in history that transitioned from a fiat standard to a sound money standard. Preferably without a complete collapse of the economic system first. Looking at historical monetary transitions, there have been some cases where societies moved from fiat currencies toward more "sound money" systems, although complete transitions without economic disruption are relatively rare. However, I can't verify it myself due to my limited historical knowledge. I therefore tend toward a negative answer. No, without collapse and subsequent intellectual and spiritual reform, we will not transition to a sound money standard at the societal level.

This world is so full of bullshit these days, not even 1% of all discussions make any sense anymore. For the remaining 99% of the time, we should all be busy learning and training our minds scientifically. And the more we did that, the lower the discussion portion would become. Social media incentivizes exactly the opposite: More discussing and therefore less time for learning. Hence, less actual knowledge. Hence less substance in discussions.

The biggest challenge in creating a "SAIFnostr" is reconciling two opposing poles: On one hand, we need to preserve the freedom and uncensorability that comes with such a decentralized protocol. On the other hand, we need to exercise a certain degree of control because we do have certain "harams". The first aspect requires complete release and surrender of control, while the other aspect, if we abandon all control, opens the door to everything we don't want. How do you find this balance on a technical level? That's precisely the core problem in creating a SAIFnostr. If any theoretical preliminary discussions are necessary at all, they need to revolve around this core question. Everything else is secondary for now. Have the SAIF chief theorists already addressed this problem?