Black Friday in my home has no concern for shopping or the sales occurring. It's a family day - just my wife and children. Today we begin our Christmas season and will spend the morning transforming our home for the season. Photos are swapped out, pillows exchanged, garlands and wreaths hung, and a number of trees in several rooms. And of course, we begin playing our favorite Christmas music. I know many start the season much earlier, but the little ones love the anticipation and tradition for the day after Thanksgiving. Merry Christmas, everyone!

Could someone please tell the Nostr CEO?

I'll listen. I listen to each of 's podcasts. But, yeah, monopolies aren't necessarily an evil construct - as long as competition is always allowed to come in and set them straight or provide an alternative. Buy truth is, most monopolies exist because of the state and the lopsided protections they are afforded by the state. There are several factors, but increasing regulations is certainly one of thd factors that helps lead to mergers within an industry.

No. But free and unfettered competition is.

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The Samourai devs were never money transmitters. They wrote code. Now they're going to prison. Developer protections are not optional. They are essential for Bitcoin and for liberty. Writing software is not a crime. https://www.coincenter.org/senate-market-structure-negotiations-must-not-sacrifice-hard-won-developer-protections/

And yet they believe they are intelligent enough to know what us best force and then shove it down our throats...

Awesome, thank you. I'll take a look.

I haven't seen it, but I'm not sure how a server can stop an IP from being collected, even if it necessarily allowed in the relay program.

Agreed.