Listened to recently and he spoke of Fedimint achieving a layer of social anonymity by setting up (guardians I believe the term was he used) who didn’t know each other in anyway whatsoever so that that can’t collude, then you’re free to setup your own federations anchored to these guardians thus mitigating the underlying counter party risk (of collusion). I’ve most certainly not done an adequate job in relay the information , but it sounded very interesting

Listened to recently and he spoke of Fedimint achieving a layer of social anonymity by setting up (guardians I believe the term was he used) who didn’t know each other in anyway whatsoever so that that can’t collude, then your free to setup your own federations anchored to this chain. I’ve most certainly not done an adequate job in relay the information , but it sounded very interesting.

#asknostr Does a 'automatically give x sats to user you're responding to?, with a manual button to 'opt-out' of giving these automatic sats to a user if you choose' feature exist on one of the apps out there? I imagine it as way to have sats-flow-flowing around nostr always, with the option to 'soft-block' a user, to opt-out of them receiving your sats. so the inverse of zapping as it stands now basically - you always automatically zap someone x sats with your reply ... if the conversation goes south, you 'soft-block' that person from getting your sats, you no longer find the conversation valuable, so the value transfer stops.

what's their 'reasoning' ?

How to become better stewards?

ah good luck, I've found it brutal enough in the past

why bonkers to run knots?

What's the 'Ban Knots connection' referring to when it says '...will relay privacy preserving transactions'? (fill me in) Thanks!

Over TOR wouldn't be fast enough tough right?

I was just using house as an example of having to sell bitcoin and create a taxable event. A lot of people here are (rightly) pushing no-kyc purchasing of bitcoin. I’m essentially wondering how are these people going to ‘use’ this bitcoin in a kyc/fiat world if they need to? Because in my mind using no-kyc coins for large purchases isn’t possible without alerting taxman/govenrment/bank etc

Thanks! A major European country using FIFO, and if I were to guess a not so tech savvy and capable tax office (could be wrong here though). My question would apply broadly though to most major western countries, the question really is if I have a bunch of no-kyc utxos, if in the future I need to convert back to fiat (house, big purchase) - what 'do I say/do'. I mean I get the no-KYC, and that the future hopefully is one where we can exchange bitcoin for goods and service directly with our 'neighbor'. But in the near term, I don't want to have bitcoin that is 'stuck' in no-KYC land if I need it for an emergency. Hope this makes sense and thanks for replying.

Brilliant! Zapped, great work thanks!

#asknostr how much of your stack do you think should be reported to taxman? presumably you'll need to buy something with your corn, what if it's a large purchase, how do you go about the sale and purchase of house, if it's corn that doesn't have a cost basis? thanks

Came to ask this also, Peaty's 'Generative Energy: Protecting and Restoring the Wholeness of Life.' book? Thanks!

What about the malevolent social engineers? How did they become what they are? If they had full knowledge of the creator and mainframe etc how was it that they became corrupt? I.e. how could such an intelligence with such knowledge of the goodness of the creator actually want anything else other than Him. I feel like this is an inaccessible mystery - I see. I reason why they would choose anything other than their creator. If we say there was some imperfection in them that allowed for their choice, we say that the creator programmer didn’t create their agents (angels) perfectly. Why were they allowed roam around the creation to inject malware, why were they not quarantined themselves. Finally why are those that chose not to upgrade left in a far worse quarantine eternally, why not permanently erased? And why were they let roam around?

I'm an hour in, and I can see from your angle, that what you say is true - it's also true to say, Erik want's you to get his point, like - just listen to me, do the thing, get off zero - do it, just do it - do it etc ... and he says he is frustrated basically because he sees people around him just shrugging it off and moving on, remaining in the cage - that's got to get seriously under your skin. So from this angle, it's more like well I'm just going to rant and shout at you and call you out, maybe that will work for some people listening to it - they be like, 'who's this dope, I'll proof him wrong, I'll look into it .. ' and bam, they're in - or it could be someone saying 'geez this guy is pissed what's he so pissed about, would Bitcoin actually be good for me?' etc --- they want to turn people on, but how unbelievable frustrating it is to see your friends, not get on the life raft?

Yea saw a pretty cool short showing this (though who knows could be faked) but you can see the egg “reaching out” as it were. Still though sperm was still “one of the first” but also, more importantly was the “chosen” one. Which is an even greater framing of the event, you were among one of the first, but you were graced with the highest honours of being chosen. “I want YOU”