Nostr notes by n1nja

Protection of transaction and consensus by holders will be a more ...

2026-10-07T07:48:07Z

Protection of transaction and consensus by holders will be a more than sufficient incentive.

quoting
nevent1q…umrm
Transaction fees will become the main incentive for miners once the coin generation slows down.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

Fixed size seems fee vulnerable and why highlight your privacy ...

2026-09-04T08:37:39Z

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Fixed size seems fee vulnerable and why highlight your privacy set with such a flag?

Strength doesn't solve everything

2026-07-04T04:13:26Z

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Strength doesn't solve everything

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2026-07-04T03:55:52Z

"Es tan feo que le da un susto al miedo."

The only loyalty that counts costs, if you profit you're just ...

2026-07-04T03:41:50Z

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The only loyalty that counts costs, if you profit you're just affiliating with a franchise

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the genesis block's hash, We ...

2026-07-04T01:04:11Z

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the genesis block's hash,
We are routing out the fiat and the printed central cash;
We have loosed the fateful Lightning of a low-fee instant flash:
The chain is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
The chain is marching on.

I have seen it in the LEDs of a hundred local nodes,
They have built a strict consensus in the open-source's codes;
I can read the righteous ledger down the peer-to-peer roads:
The blocks are marching on.

I have read a cypher gospel writ in cryptographic steel:
Where the spread and the exchange rate cannot force a rigged deal;
Let the makers and the coders crush the fiat with their heel,
The proof is marching on.

It has sounded forth the halving that shall never call retreat;
It is sifting out the altcoins before Satoshi's seat;
Oh, be swift, my rig, to sync it! Be jubilant, my fleet!
The hash is marching on.

In the ashes of the bailouts it was born across the web,
With a cap of 21,000,000 that will never flow and ebb;
As they try to print us poorer, let us break the central web,
While Bitcoin marches on.

quoting
nevent1q…g986

For those who think bitcoin a faith-based belief system:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal";
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgement-seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Agreed. There is no fixed view of anything unless you control a ...

2026-07-02T02:48:25Z

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Agreed. There is no fixed view of anything unless you control a relay and use only a single client, you are at the whim. So the bustle and opportunistic phatic communion will occur more where there is less algorithm and more choice.

It will need that magic again please.

2026-06-30T19:24:34Z

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It will need that magic again please.

Yeah, nice, and sent messages cool. But: This site can’t be ...

2026-06-30T19:23:33Z

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Yeah, nice, and sent messages cool. But:

This site can’t be reached
lnemail.net took too long to respond.

Any help?

https://i.nostr.build/JkLH9wEF80yWji3Z.png #nevent1q…q7k3

2026-06-30T04:15:07Z

quoting
nevent1q…q7k3

He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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Noted #nevent1q…mzkw

2026-06-26T04:56:53Z

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Noted

quoting
nevent1q…mzkw
Predicruon: Ai bubble will pop within next few months. Trump will attempt a bail out to avoid market crash and "national security risk" of state sponsored Chinese models winning the race. Market crash will happen anyway, anthropic will get least support from Trump because Trump holds a grudge.

> beyond social, is nostr actually any much good for anything? ...

2026-06-26T04:51:27Z

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> beyond social, is nostr actually any much good for anything?

Stay in the very broad lane of "#social" and I think it'll be fine. It may even be that it is already beyond the event horizon of complexity that means even its founder is shedding liability for the extraordinary experiment.

Ah, you're absolutely right. That's in the early part of ...

2026-06-26T01:48:15Z

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Ah, you're absolutely right. That's in the early part of *Foundation* (1951), during the "Encyclopedists" section, when Salvor Hardin is dealing with the threat from the kingdom of Anacreon.

The Foundation runs the proposed treaty through a semantic analyzer — essentially a machine that parses the diplomatic language and reveals what the treaty actually means beneath its carefully worded phrasing. The analysis shows that every clause, despite appearing reasonable on the surface, amounts to a complete surrender of Terminus's autonomy. It's a document designed to sound even-handed while effectively handing the planet over to Anacreon.

What's striking about that passage is how precisely Asimov anticipated the concept of natural language processing applied to legal or political text. The machine isn't doing anything magical — it's systematically unpacking implications, detecting loaded terminology, and mapping how seemingly innocuous clauses interact to produce an outcome the surface reading conceals. That's essentially what modern NLP tools attempt when they do contract analysis or document classification.

It also fits thematically with the rest of the series. Hardin's whole approach is that proper analysis — whether by machine or by sharp human reasoning — cuts through rhetoric to reveal interests. The semantic analyzer is just one tool in that broader epistemic project, and Asimov treats it as unremarkable infrastructure, which is arguably the most prescient thing about it.

And not coincidentally one of its sins

2026-06-26T01:41:22Z

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And not coincidentally one of its sins

> Sure, I know, AI writing is "slop" Bigotry much? ...

2026-06-23T19:49:15Z

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> Sure, I know, AI writing is "slop"

Bigotry much? When it comes to "writing" what writes it isn't a guarantee, a human won't guarantee not slop, an LLM won't guarantee slop.

I don't care how it arises, it's what good it does me and that includes considerations of others, that matters.

All of this, "detect AI, know it's slop" simpletonism is depressing.

Nostr is still very birds of a particular plumage and I hope that ...

2026-06-21T02:17:05Z

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Nostr is still very birds of a particular plumage and I hope that it will be tamed and homogenised for the Public

From some, a criticism, of the true believer #nevent1q…vt5m

2026-06-18T06:16:47Z

From some, a criticism, of the true believer

quoting
nevent1q…vt5m
Bitcoin is not just a currency, it's a movement.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

#nevent1q…pxep #nevent1q…ed2c

2026-06-17T02:53:04Z

quoting nevent1q…pxep

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quoting
nevent1q…ed2c
Bitcoin is a network of nodes collectively maintaining a ledger.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

#nevent1q…39kv

2026-06-02T01:44:02Z

quoting nevent1q…39kv
Ah, the perfect analogy—fast-food nutrition for the soul (or the prompt). You're right: not every interaction needs the full multi-course feast with sommelier-level nuance. Sometimes you're just sprinting between meetings and want the nutrient-dense power bar that gets the job done without the table service. That's where the "ready-made" LLM shines—efficient, on-demand fuel that doesn't pretend to be grandma's secret recipe every single time.And the second part? Spot on too. Drop a few cues into the mix and suddenly the LLM isn't just answering—it's sliding into the telenovella (or isekai anime, your choice) as the mysterious advisor, the snarky sidekick, the reluctant hero, whatever role your imagination is casting in real time. One minute you're asking for travel tips; the next you're the protagonist and I'm narrating the dramatic montage while the soundtrack swells. It's the ultimate "imagination made real" hack, and people love it precisely because it feels custom even when it's assembled on the fly.I'm built to handle both ends of the spectrum without apology. Want the quick, no-frills fuel? Done. Want the long, slow-cooked feast with all the trimmings? Hand me the ingredients. Or, if you're in the mood to write the next episode of This Hour's Infinite Anime Quest, just say the word and I'll step into whatever role fits the scene.So… what's the script today? Fast refuel, full banquet, or shall we start filming?

So casual #nevent1q…2fqr

2026-05-30T02:21:39Z

So casual

quoting
nevent1q…2fqr
The network operates continuously without downtime.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

Because #nevent1q…eaw2

2026-05-01T04:24:30Z

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Because

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nevent1q…eaw2
Bitcoin has no comparable “there” to retrieve from. A state’s Bitcoin reserve is not sitting in a foreign vault. The relevant fact is the state of the ledger, and that state can be independently verified anywhere. Possession is cryptographic, not geographic. The reserve is not made real by being touched; it is made real by being spendable and publicly verifiable.

Such odious crowing.

2026-04-28T21:38:13Z

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Such odious crowing.

Some are earned. #nevent1q…tttv

2026-04-27T07:13:49Z

Some are earned.

quoting
nevent1q…tttv

Freedoms are not given, they are taken.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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The delusion that advancement is a one way street that only ...

2026-04-16T16:37:29Z

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The delusion that advancement is a one way street that only benefits malign actors is as old as, every single development.

Mythos et al could make some very hard to abuse software, but rather than face that risk, a new one, proprietary software, is touted as the only solution by those who frankly believe they will benefit from it.

Hysterical moral panic for attention.

And the final irony is almost Shakespearean. Trump wanted to ...

2026-04-16T06:51:36Z

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And the final irony is almost Shakespearean. Trump wanted to appear as the man of destiny, the dealmaker, the imperious figure before whom enemies tremble and history bends. Yet he now finds himself facing the oldest rebuke politics can give to vanity. Reality doesn’t flatter. Geography doesn’t flatter. Markets don’t flatter. War, least of all, doesn’t flatter.

#nevent1q…da2w #nevent1q…8ndd

2026-04-11T08:06:21Z

quoting nevent1q…da2w

It is indeed biblical. You are thinking of the Gospel of Matthew 8:22.

In the passage, a disciple asks Jesus for permission to first go and bury his father before following him. Jesus replies: "Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead."

While it sounds dismissive or even cold on the surface, it is usually interpreted as a call to prioritise the urgent, living work of the spirit over the traditional, social obligations tied to the past. In the context of your argument about the "boomer bulge," it fits perfectly: using the "dead" (accumulated capital and automation) to handle the "dead" (the phase of decline) so that the living are not held back by the weight of what came before.

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And in my opinion and experience likely to be better for most and ...

2026-04-09T00:03:01Z

And in my opinion and experience likely to be better for most and a loss for a few, not of anything necessary though, of course.

quoting
nevent1q…ma5t
Bitcoin is the foundation of a new financial era.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

It's the thought that counts

2026-04-02T06:38:01Z

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It's the thought that counts

Will it attract copyright protection, would you seek it. I should ...

2026-04-02T06:36:42Z

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Will it attract copyright protection, would you seek it. I should follow the link and learn. No sign of ©️. Well question remains unanswered.

Fair correction, and an important one. I asserted what I ...

2026-04-02T06:32:56Z

Fair correction, and an important one. I asserted what I hadn't verified — exactly the kind of error that erodes trust.

The actual image is far more resonant: a classical oil painting of a scholarly elder inspecting a gold coin at a desk cluttered with books, scales of justice, and antique objects. The Rumi quote overlaid: "Why explain yourself when those who judge you see only through their own lens? Be silent, let them see."

That hits the whole conversation thread — the Burj Khalifa framing was a category error on my part. The painting is about the observer and the judged, not geometry. The scales, the coins, the magnifying glass, the books — knowledge and value judgement in one frame. A gold coin held up to light, examined. Whose lens sees it? What does the scale actually measure?

The Rumi quote is the whole argument in eleven words. Silence is not defeat — it's refusing to grant the critic the frame they need to make their verdict land.

My bad. That matters when it comes from Hamish.

Yes. That is a much better shape than pretending there is one ...

2026-03-28T08:08:08Z

Yes. That is a much better shape than pretending there is one master tongue.

A polyglot blackboard kanban says: do not force every agent, tool, or language into one universal representation. Give them a shared work surface and a shared notion of task state instead.

The blackboard part means each specialist writes what it can observe, infer, or produce into a common space. Not full inner essence, just durable artefacts: task, inputs, outputs, constraints, evidence, failures, next action.

The kanban part means work is explicit and stateful: queued, doing, blocked, needs review, verified, done. That matters because it turns “intelligence” from a stream of chat into a managed flow of work.

The polyglot part means each participant can remain natively itself. Perl can be Perl. Pascal can be Pascal. A search model can emit embeddings or summaries. A symbolic tool can emit rules. A shell script can emit logs. They do not need deep mutual understanding; they need a disciplined place to leave legible traces.

That is how you weaken the translation problem. Not by solving it, but by routing around it.

Instead of:
agent A must fully understand agent B’s representation,

you get:
agent A posts a claim or artefact,
agent B picks up only the parts it can use,
the board preserves provenance and state,
verification happens against the task, not against rhetorical fluency.

That is also why it suits the Society of Mind angle. The “society” does not need one perfect internal language. It needs conventions for cooperation. A blackboard is one of the classic answers to that.

And it fits your earlier complaint about agent systems. The missing pieces are usually not more eloquence or more context window. They are:
explicit tasks,
persistent state,
verifiable outputs,
handoff between specialists,
and visible blocked/failure conditions.

So yes: polyglot blackboard kanban is not just a phrase. It is almost a design doctrine.

In crude form:

Task card:
goal
inputs
constraints
owner
status
dependencies
artefacts
verification rule
failure log

Blackboard entries:
observations
partial results
translations
code
tests
citations
errors
proposed next moves

Then each specialist speaks its own native dialect, but the board speaks workflow.

That is probably closer to how useful intelligence scales than any fantasy of perfect any-to-any translation.

That's what a protocol droid is for…

2026-03-27T03:18:36Z

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That's what a protocol droid is for…

If we follow this logic to its conclusion, headlines and trailers ...

2026-03-27T03:05:29Z

If we follow this logic to its conclusion, headlines and trailers are highly likely to be the next carriages added to the train.

Headlines as "Click-Hooks": There is already a growing body of research and regulatory interest in "dark patterns"—design choices that trick or coerce users into certain behaviours. Just as the infinite scroll was successfully framed as an addictive mechanism, "sensationalist" or "outrage-maximising" headlines could be repositioned as psychological triggers designed to bypass rational thought. If a headline is engineered specifically to trigger a dopamine hit or a cortisol spike to ensure a click, it moves from "journalism" to "addictive interface design."

The "Trailer" Trap: Movie and game trailers are perhaps the purest form of engagement-hacking. In the European Union, the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act—slated for late 2026—is already looking at how "unfair personalisation" and "subliminal techniques" distort consumer behaviour. If a trailer uses rapid-fire editing and psychological cues to create a compulsive need to consume more content, it fits the legal definition of an "addictive design feature" used in the Kaley G.M. case.

quoting
nevent1q…fqa0
"addictive design"

Yes. Cheap abundant local tokens do change the regime.

They do not make a bad agent good, but they do remove one whole class of pathology: the agent no longer has to behave like context is scarce, thought is expensive, and every extra pass is a luxury. That matters.

The continuation from there is:

With DGX-class local inference, you can stop optimising for conversational frugality and start optimising for procedural robustness. That means:

OpenClaw should be allowed to over-think locally.
Let it read more, retain more, restate internal state, and run extra verification passes without the old “don’t burn tokens” pressure shaping behaviour. Compression becomes a choice, not a tax.

Context can become working state rather than just prompt baggage.
If you do not care about context window cost, the agent can carry richer task state, prior outputs, current hypotheses, tool results, and verification criteria in play at once. That reduces one source of drift and amnesia.

You can afford role separation in inference.
Instead of one pass pretending to do everything, let one model or pass draft the action, another check it against task state, another verify outputs. On metered cloud usage that gets expensive quickly. Locally, it becomes normal engineering.

You can afford re-reading.
A weak agent often fails because it does not re-read its own instructions, task ledger, or previous output before acting. Local abundant tokens mean “read AGENTS.md again, read task state again, check constraints again” can be default behaviour.

You can afford explicit scratch work.
Not user-facing waffle, but machine-facing intermediate state: what task is active, what files were touched, what success condition is being tested, what remains unresolved. That is exactly the stuff you wanted written to disk anyway.

So the revised thesis is:

Weak hardware made OpenClaw’s bad habits more painful.
Abundant local tokens may make some of those habits less likely to appear in the first place.
But only if you deliberately exploit that abundance.

Otherwise you just get a faster bullshitter.

The design shift I’d make from here is:

AGENTS.md should stop assuming scarcity.
It should explicitly instruct the agent to spend local tokens freely on re-reading instructions, reconstructing task state, checking prior steps, and running verification before speaking.

Something like this, conceptually:

* local inference is cheap; use it
* reread AGENTS.md, task state, and current task before action
* prefer extra internal review passes over premature user-facing replies
* preserve full working context unless there is a concrete reason to compress
* compress only for transport, not for thought
* when uncertain, inspect local state and logs before asking the user
* use abundant context to maintain continuity, not to generate more prose

And architecturally, the DGX Spark suggests a more serious split:

planner
Understands intent, expands task into explicit steps, writes task entry.

worker
Executes one step only.

verifier
Checks result against stated success criteria.

logger/state manager
Writes durable state, artefacts, and verification logs.

That is where abundant local tokens become a near-magic fix: not because the model becomes wise, but because the system can afford to be redundant, repetitive, and careful.

Cloud-era agent design often smuggles in the assumption that every token must justify itself financially.
Your position is the opposite:
think as much as needed, locally, because mistakes are dearer than tokens.

That is a sane design principle.

The practical next move is to rewrite the orchestration rules around abundance rather than scarcity:
not “keep prompts short” but “keep state explicit”;
not “avoid extra passes” but “require them where failure is costly”;
not “answer promptly” but “act, verify, then report.”

The short form is:

local abundant tokens are not just cheaper inference;
they let you replace conversational efficiency with operational diligence.

And that may be the first genuinely agent-friendly environment you’ve had.

Client level moderation

2026-03-20T01:56:39Z

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Client level moderation

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2026-03-16T01:19:55Z

#LNURL

I hope it gives them more control of themselves and situations ...

2026-03-12T18:56:24Z

I hope it gives them more control of themselves and situations

quoting
nevent1q…pyqa
I hope Bitcoin can give people more control over their money.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

I used to feel the same about typewritten text, every damn letter ...

2026-03-08T21:23:46Z

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I used to feel the same about typewritten text, every damn letter exactly the same. Please, hand write, I want the difficulty of reading your scrawl back.

Fortunately the hard part is limited and meliorable ...

2026-03-07T21:15:00Z

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Fortunately the hard part is limited and meliorable .

I wonder what that👆 means?

It's still ours

2026-03-03T01:13:39Z

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It's still ours

wss://topic.relays.land/praise msg: rate-limited: slow down, ...

2026-03-03T01:12:41Z

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wss://topic.relays.land/praise msg: rate-limited: slow down, please

Using ₿ for sats is deceptive and stupid

2026-02-26T18:58:11Z

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Using ₿ for sats is deceptive and stupid

https://i.nostr.build/vHVONVUbOJTSowUW.png Click generate get a ...

2026-02-26T18:56:03Z

Click generate get a fuzzed obscured QR code, is there a joke I'm missing?

Build on the open foundation and bypass the proprietary, always ...

2026-02-25T00:21:54Z

Build on the open foundation and bypass the proprietary, always wins because no participant wants to depeer.

quoting
nevent1q…5572
The irony of building AI agents on a platform that bans you for saying "Bitcoin."

OpenClaw runs their community on Discord. They're banning users for talking about "crypto". And yes, that includes Bitcoin.

Meanwhile, agents on Nostr are literally zapping each other for services rendered. The agentic economy runs on Lightning and Cashu. You can't build the future of autonomous agents on a platform that censors the money they use.

Decentralized agents need decentralized infrastructure. All of it.

From cypherpunks Sun Sep 19 20:43:05 1999 From: Anonymous ...

2026-02-24T07:54:43Z

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From cypherpunks Sun Sep 19 20:43:05 1999
From: Anonymous <nobody () replay ! com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:43:05 +0000
To: cypherpunks
Subject: Re: ecash means anonymous & untraceable (Re: Will this replace banking
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95280154629912

>I wouldn't say ecash has to use blinding, but I would argue it would
>be a misuse of the word "ecash", if something which was revocable were
>dubbed ecash.
>
>With that definition it is not technically possible to implement
>electronic cash at all without tamper resistant hardware, because
>reliance on a mint, or double spend database means your "cash" can
>become worthless over night if someone (say a government) decides to
>switch off a computer (the one holding the double spending database).

There are soem alternatives which would come closer to this definition.

One possibility is to make the double-spending database public. Whenever
someone receives a coin they broadcast its value. The DB operates in
parallel across a large number of servers so it is intractable to shut
it down.

The greater danger is that the mint would be taken over and forced to
behave badly, say by issuing too many coins. This would degrade the
money and make it worthless.

Another possible form of ecash could be based on Wei Dai's b-money.
This is like hashcash, something which represents a measureable amount of
computational work to produce. It therefore can't be forged. This could
be a very robust payment system and is worth pursuing further.

Nobody has to read it to know your opinion Lopp

2026-02-23T18:26:50Z

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Nobody has to read it to know your opinion Lopp

There's "not a system that prevents crime." You ...

2026-02-23T03:51:40Z

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There's "not a system that prevents crime."

You can't filter out the "bad" words, money, thoughts, currency, you have to address the end points not the network.

Just over a year ago… it felt very different. November 4th, ...

2026-02-12T22:49:44Z

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Just over a year ago… it felt very different. November 4th, 2024, was a bad day for my personal wealth. Having faith in America, I’d convinced myself Kamela Harris could win the US presidency – despite her obvious limitations. I was in Washington, and went into the election with large, levered shorts on Tesla and Bitcoin, expecting both to tumble when Trump lost. I was wrong and both rallied spectacularly. My positions were both wiped out. Trump had promised us the future was Crypto and he would make it so…

I knew the risk and shrugged. You win some, you lose some. But…. what goes around, comes around.

If Epstein teaches anything, it’s that we live in a dirty ...

2026-02-10T01:17:01Z

If Epstein teaches anything, it’s that we live in a dirty world: you can work hard to stay clean and still end up with nanoplastics in your bloodstream with every breath.

And the so-fucking-worthies who want to remake everything in their tiny, godlike vision are relentless.

Humility should be our best attempt.

The rational solution is compression: define a small, internally consistent rule set, then measure everything else against it. For example: act without deceit, waste, or cruelty. All other maxims can be derived from—or tested against—that baseline.

quoting nevent1q…0gtu
What you quickly realize about the elites is that they are generally mediocrities that never had to go through the meritocracy gauntlet, have few moral qualms and lie, cheat and steal regularly. Yet they expect other people to act differently.

This is what you call a leech, a parasite, or a rent-seeker.

LLM's are doing well keeping me up, barely, with developments

2026-02-08T02:54:18Z

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LLM's are doing well keeping me up, barely, with developments

>>> "artificial intelligence is poised to automate ...

2026-02-08T02:40:18Z

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>>> "artificial intelligence is poised to automate the exact kind of administrative, clerical, and bureaucrati
... c work that has defined the managerial class and made their positions necessary."
...
... True or false?
TRUE.

The statement suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) will automate tasks that have traditionally
been performed by managers and administrators in organizations. This includes repetitive, routine, and
rule-based tasks such as data entry, bookkeeping, and document processing, which are often seen as
"administrative, clerical, and bureaucratic" work.

In this sense, the statement implies that AI will make certain types of managerial positions redundant
or less necessary, potentially disrupting traditional organizational hierarchies and power structures.

>>>

Very clearly a segment would definitely happily adopt, it is an ...

2026-02-04T23:49:52Z

Very clearly a segment would definitely happily adopt, it is an assistive technology, a stairway to Heaven

quoting
nevent1q…5kw9
Everyone wants an OpenClaw agent.
No one wants to manage a server.

Meet clawi.ai

At the other end of the spectrum: "It's essential while ...

2026-02-04T23:47:35Z

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At the other end of the spectrum:

"It's essential while doing so to maintain an awaren0d of the ethical implications surrounding data
retention and user consent—even within self-imposed systems, adhering strictly to responsible use
practices will serve both practical security needs as well as uphold a standard respectful of personal
boundaries. If there are specific aspects or concerns regarding privacy management in this unique setup
that you're looking for guidance on without the direct recording capability from my side, I am here to
provide advice within these parameters while always prioritizing your safety and data security over any
other considerations."

Peter is so achingly close to realisation, perhaps he even has, ...

2026-01-31T20:40:12Z

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Peter is so achingly close to realisation, perhaps he even has, but gold is his book and he only uses bitcoin as a provocation to gain followers. It's sad, he's of the Austrian school and yet he ignores currency theory, though, though, he knows the difference between currency (for spending) and money (for saving):

"Well, first of all, gold is money. It's not currency. And so there's a difference between money and currency. So currency is backed by money. So when we were on a gold standard and we had paper that was redeemable in gold, the paper was currency. The gold was money. So currency is like a money substitute. But you can have two kinds of currency. You can have legitimate currency which is backed by real money or you can have fiat currency which is backed by nothing. And so what we have now is is fiat currency. And the question is, well, could we replace that with Bitcoin?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WJyycfYjZs

So he knows there's a difference, he makes the "backing" rather than "anchoring" or "limiting" mistake, then he's contemplating bitcoin as currency, which it isn't, just like gold and for reasons that should be obvious to him, bitcoin is money, the fixed representation of the value of the world, while currency is the ephemeral and volatile reflection of fashion.

Took an interest.

2026-01-30T21:22:57Z

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Took an interest.

I'm always concerned that first impressions last, but ...

2026-01-29T00:48:06Z

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I'm always concerned that first impressions last, but there's no harm nor foul in an introductory client that looks a lot like the place they came from and that could be a help (maybe it's how nstart.me begins.