Yondu's avatar
Yondu
yondu@cosanostr.com
npub1wnqw...lnft
Yondu's avatar
Yondu 3 weeks ago
Here I also see huge amounts of MeshCore nodes popped up about 1-1.5 months ago, but they are in different locations from the Meshtastic nodes, so it seems that this is not that all old Meshtastic nodes just switched over during a couple of weeks, it's really a new and growing adoption. Did we have some big event with MeshCore presentation around the October-December? You need time to buy and install nodes. ) BTW, the similar map of Reticulum nodes does not have it's page on the Reticulum site as far as I can tell, but need to be searched separately: Maybe this is also one of the small but important adoption things which make the difference. Here is the map for Meshtastic: (also separate site) Here is for MeshCore: (here is for MeshCore, integrated) BTW, why MeshCore is trademarked?? How sure we are about the trustworthiness of the developers, of the map and the quality of the software (e.g. in terms of encryption)? View quoted note →
Yondu's avatar
Yondu 3 weeks ago
If we consider the libertarian approach that the individual will is the final and ultimate goal and judge, then this could be truth only for the individuals which were raised in the total isolation, starting from the birth in some artificial womb and then having been isolated from any interactions with society during all their life. This is definitely not the case neither for humans, nor for any of the animals on Earth. Human is much more than just its body, and the mind of the human consists of the uncountable interactions not only of him (or her) during his life starting from the inception, but of interactions of all of his ancestors with their environment, back to the first living organism on the planet Earth. The latest part of this collective mind journey is usually called the culture, and this is exactly what makes human a human. Not the genes themselves, nor some magic individual free will, but the 4-d environment of the lineage, expressed in all its complexity, and resulted in the formation of this specific individual, with all his or her traits, likes and dislikes, emotions and thoughts. And to consider the individual will in the isolation of this complex environment is the reductionist approach not useful for any practical or theoretical purposes, as all the models which can be build on this basis will probably be very far from the reality.
Yondu's avatar
Yondu 3 weeks ago
*The Third realm as the mix of private digital communication platforms and low-key in-person interactions in the random physical spaces* Every *fixed* Second-realm location in the non-failed state will be at some point of time discovered and infiltrated with the state agents and then it will be raided with dire consequences for many of its long-term members and random people just present there in the wrong time. There probably should be the Third realm, which is not the First one (physical state territory), nor the Second one (parallel fixed structures existing at the same territory e.g. parallel polises, bitcoin meetups etc.), but the mix of: 1) fixed networked pseudonymous structures (Nostr, Signal groups etc.) with 2) real-world low-key and low-number interactions like meeting of two people to exchange goods in some random place at some random time, agreed in advance through these fixed digital means of communication. Vexl is working more or less to this end. Thus the impact of possible physical violence will be very limited. For this there need to be implemented some kind of reputation and safety monitoring for the members of digital communities, so that it would be visible if people around some of the group members suddenly get into troubles. There should *NOT* be big meetups where many of the members of the relevant group (opposing to the state) would be present at the same time.
Yondu's avatar
Yondu 1 month ago
The library I use every month: Z-library via Tor. After free registering you may download up to 10 books daily. I'm yet to encounter a book in English which is not there. Access via Tor: http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion/ Access via other browsers: https://www.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/wiki/index/access/ Pay attention to the scam sites, there are a lot. The correct sites are listed by the link above. If anyone suggest Discord - this is scam, z-library don't use it.
Yondu's avatar
Yondu 1 year ago
Important correction for the nocoiner-syndrome paper, page 9: "Bitcoin is not going away; it is now a more important reserve asset than silver or the British pound. This means that if we weight risk of Bitcoin, it might be a better idea to enter the Bitcoin economy now than it was in 2010. The risk is gone." The risk that bitcoin will go away is NOT gone, it is still there and will be there for the foreseeable future. One part of the risk, specifically the risk of not being able to take off, is gone. Say, it was in the range of 99.0-99.9% probability. Another big part of the risk, specifically possible ban (and legal prosecution of the owners of bitcoin) from the state authorities of the major states also seems quite diminished for the time being. But other parts of the risk are still there, namely: 1. possible catastrophic bugs 2. attacks on cryptography algorithms from newer vectors like quantum computing (but not only this) 3. new distributed coin with better qualities, which could flip over bitcoin 4. splitting the network into separate segments - physical or logical, including possible splitting of the bitcoin into several types (white, black, ...) with different prices and utility 5. hacking attempts on the broad spectrum of vectors, which will be the more intense the more value will be concentrated in bitcoin network 6. outlawing of non-custodial wallets and mixers, and moving most of the bitcoin to the state-controlled entities with full control and taxation 7. mining pool wars between the states or corporations Many of these risks will be more prominent during next years and decades with current trends of the development of the newer AI systems and governments trying to get more and more control over the citizens of their countries. // Please share with authors. @Institute of Cryptoanarchy