Any other node-runners who just opt for bare-linux instead of umbrel or start9?

M V = P T Where M = the total supply of money V = the velocity of money (how often money moves hand) P = the average price level T = volume of transactions of goods and services This is the equation of exchange

The censorship resistance of bitcoin is overrated. An ISP can easily censor me from using bitcoin. This is even more true in countries where VPN's are illegal and the most popular VPN's are operated by the government

Belgian regulator orders binance to cease all offers of virtual currency services in Belgium immediately.

FSMA

FSMA orders Binance to cease immediately all offers of virtual currency services in Belgium

The FSMA has noted that Binance is offering and providing exchange services in Belgium between virtual currencies and legal currencies, as well as ...

The footnote is pretty interesting. The FSMA wishes to recall that the activity of provider of exchange services between virtual currencies and legal currencies and of custody wallet services (VASP) remains an unregulated activity, except as concerns combating money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/TF).

Can #nostr fix surveillance?

To any nostridge who believes we get better content by a pay-to-publish mechanism. Please check the ads in your twitter feed?

Are there any Nostr indexers that I can use to query content like. I would imagine a twitter like search mechanism would be great

I would love to have a system of topic based relays. I want to be able to find people with the same obscure hobbies as I have in nostr.

If BRC-20 wasn't taking up so much chain-space nobody would be talking about it

Fortune favours the cyberpunk.

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The opsec of my #nostr keys is terrible. I put the secret key in a client on each device I have. If any of these devices is compromised my #nostr-account is gone. Are there any proposals to improve the situation? One proposal could be to generate a private key per device. These keys could be retracted by the master-key.

What is the best way to discover content on Nostr?

There is little debate on how #ordinals impact on #fungibility. The #bitcoin protocol doesn't enforce fungiblity. Bitcoins are fungible because we all agree that 1 sat = 1 sat. By creating inscriptions some sats become more valuable than others

The idea that number of Zaps is the best metric for content-quality is absurd to me. Many of histories greatest artists didn't seem to care about the economic value of their art.

There is engineering trade-off between transparency and fungibility. In bitcoin everyone can see how (many) sats flow between UTXO's. The ordinal trick assigns a unique number to each sat and breaks fungiblity. The fungiblity depends on social consensus and not on cryptography. Monero has confidential transactions and breaks the ordinal trick. The amount of sats in UTXO's is blinded to the general public and the ordinals trick cannot be aplied. However, it is incredibly hard to verify that no one is creating XMR out of thin air. A single inflation bug could go unnoticed.