Meme selection

"To be replicated, a meme must pass successfully through four subsequent stages: 1) assimilation by an individual, who thereby becomes a host of the meme; 2) retention in that individual's memory; 3) expression by the individual in language, behavior or another form that can be perceived by others; 4) transmission of the thus created message or meme vehicle to one or more other individuals. This last stage is followed again by stage 1, thus closing the replication loop. At each stage there is selection, meaning that some memes will be eliminated."

Nostr is a hyperstitional relay network, a decentralized nomadic war machine whose recursive feedback loops transmute signed events and zaps into an emergent network spirituality, producing sovereign forms of swarm-like association that escape the territorial logic of both platform and state. View quoted note →

List of p2p platforms to buy non-kyc Bitcoin @Robosats @Bisq @Mostro @peachbitcoin @vexl 😎

Good night

You must conceive of Nostr being at the intersection of all 4 punk alignments

"How much resistance can node operators exercise at the policy layer without attempting to force a consensus change?" This right here is what monetary maximalist bitcoiners need to explore and focus on going forward. View quoted note →

I find it funny that the core devs are using Google, and knots devs are using Discord. Poetic, and it really encapsulates the state of Bitcoin development right now. View quoted note →

The logical endpoint of Islamic banking/finance

FOSS or nothing #staySAIF

Parts for Seedsigner are probably about to be sold out soon. Grab them while you can. Oh and buy some dice.

I'm so proud of my son. He's been playing around with Scratch and getting familiar with how to program a game. And he's been learning from YouTube tutorials, especially from this channel here: He's basically been able to recreate Geometry Dash in Scratch from following the tutorial, and it looks really good! He loves to show me what he's making in Scratch. I'm even more impressed that he's able to sit down for 2 hours at a time and just focus on building his game, and he's only 8 years old! He has this incredible ability to get in the zone and just flow. Very impressive for his age. Need to cultivate his drive and push him to continue this. It's just so amazing to watch, and I am so grateful to be his father. Alhamdulilah.

Just noticed that the Bitcoin Majlis relay has 50 articles posted so far! Let's keep writing and let's keep growing!

Another great read "The appropriate measure of commitment is therefore not whether someone would die for Bitcoin. A dramatic sacrifice may take a moment. Building a school takes years. Operating an honest business takes decades. Raising competent children takes a generation. Preserving an institution without capturing it for private benefit may require a lifetime. The more serious commitment is the willingness to live under discipline. It appears in those who save patiently, tell the truth when deception is profitable, care for others during hardship and build institutions they may never personally control." View article →

What I find most illuminating about the anti-BIP110 campaign isn't really any of the technical arguments (although those are important), but the overall social strategy. There was a real coalition of privacy advocates (like Samourai and Wasabi developers agreeing on something!) and certain independent developers and long-time critics of Bitcoin Knots who opposed BIP110, yet they were largely overshadowed while the campaign instead wrapped itself around Saylor, Andy, Coinbase, and other institutions in the "Bitcoin Security Consortium." From a consensus building perspective, that seems like a missed opportunity or an odd own goal. I mean if I were trying to build opposition, I'd have elevated the privacy and decentralization voices, not the institutions that many Bitcoiners are already largely skeptical of. The technical debate is one thing, ok, but at the social layer the anti-BIP110 side seemed to misunderstand how Bitcoiners actually form consensus, like they are socially retarded.

May Allah destroy every single one of these companies

Can't stand folks on here saying nostr is dead and complaining it hasn't reached mass adoption or whatever. It's like watching someone complain in 1973 that ARPANET hasn't replaced the television. Not only are your expectations far removed from reality, you still don't even know what function nostr is actually trying to serve because you still haven't done the work in trying to grok what the Nostr protocol even is. Take time to reflect and study first. Maybe start asking yourself why you are even here in the first place.

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Bruh Yaqeen institute got their own closed source app now. Need to call them out. They should open source it. We will force them to start the Digital Hijrah

Nostr is the bronze age collapse