The lack of desire to achieve consensus and do the work to educate is very anti Bitcoin, indeed.

Unfair to Saylor. There’s many playing fiat games who won’t buy hard Bitcoin, sometimes for legal reasons. By plugging Bitcoin into tradfi capital can flow-in by appealing to yield and growth chasers. Some of those people will become interested in Bitcoin proper. Some never will. If you’re a Bitcoiner, buy real Bitcoin. Saylor is not selling to you.

You own yourself because control is a necessary property of ownership, and the mind is irreducibly in control of itself. #philosophy #nap

Hard Money prevents war as we’ve known it. All wars in modern history are funded through coercion. If the US had to beg its citizens to contribute $10k per year to fund a “retaliatory invasion”, people would have to truly confront their rage as a personal cost. Most would abate. It would give those who disagree with the war a way to truly cast their vote and keep their conscience clean by simply refusing to pay. It would put the burden of the war directly on the shoulders of the warmongers. Put your own money where your mouth is, not mine. Soft Money lowers the friction for theft to basically zero. Even if you refused to pay taxes, they would just print the money. They don’t need your permission. In fact, they get to pass off inflation as a market phenomenon, blaming “greedy” market actors for “price gouging”. This is how Bitcoin stops war. #bitcoin #war #morality

Yes I understand. I was specifically referring to chattel slavery, but you’re correct: the same moral rules that invalidate chattel slavery invalidate the central banking cartel. We are still slaves, just not in a legal sense.

At what point does morality actually matter? Moral arguments supersede consequences. That is the power of morality. “If we end slavery then who will pick the cotton!?” Answer: no clue. Doesn’t matter. Slavery is immoral. Reality: we’ll develop metal monsters that burn ancient crushed tree juice to automate away the manual labour. The moral argument is our compass to use because the future is unpredictable. If the moral argument is correct, like a perfectly tuned compass, you will find yourself navigating to the future with the optimal circumstances. #morality #philosophy

Individuals controlling their own mempool is not censorship.

Bitcoin has technically changed over time yes, but it's identity is clear. Bitcoin having changed over time doesn't mean that any additional change is valid. The appeal is not to the exact written text of the white paper, but to the explicit identity of the technology. It is a cash system. That's why people like it, that's why people use it. In terms of storing and transmitting multi-media, there's much more appropriate and better ways. This mirrors the legal concept known as the "spirit of the law": the meaning of the law when it was written. Following the law literally can sometimes violate the spirit in which is was written. The spirit of Bitcoin is as the title of the paper suggests. If we wind up going from a "cash system" to "multi-media system", we've made a wrong turn. Putting multi media on Bitcoin simply because you can is violating the spirit of Bitcoin. To use a crude analogy: You could encode image data into a series of electronic bank transfer "reference" fields by breaking it up into tiny chunks and making a lot of transfers. It's obvious to anyone that this is not the point of those fields. Violating the intent of the system is how we categorize "hacks" from proper use. Appealing to the identity of a bank as a "financial institution" is not invalidated by the mere fact that banking has evolved over time or that people can hack it.

“Open Source Developer” is not a virtue, and doesn’t make for a Saint. No one _wants_ to villainise the core devs. This state of affairs is sad and disappointing. In fact, they villainise themselves by their actions. We are just judging those actions. There is no good argument for expanding OP_RETURN. Using the positive connotations of “open source”, the negative connotations of “penny stock promoter” and the subjective framing of “hero’s and villains” is a sloppy red-herring. Aka, not an argument. #bitcoin #core #knots

> You want bitcoin to be a monetary network (and by your measure it very well might be). This won't be absolutely true until it is unanimously used as such by all humans on this planet. Until then, the absolute truth is that bitcoin is a messaging system (based on concise design of the code being run) This feels like "death of the author". Bitcoin's identity is plain and clear: "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System". This is not actually up for debate. If you want a generic P2P messaging system, then build or use one (not the thing self-identifying as a "cash system"). To reduce Bitcoin to a "messaging system" is a category error. Language is a messaging system, but it's not Bitcoin. Fiat is a messaging system, but it's not Bitcoin. Nostr is a messaging system, but it's not Bitcoin. You get the point. Reducing cars and planes to the category "vehicle" serves only to muddy the waters when figuring out the best way to travel to your local grocer or 12000km over an ocean. > I agree with point 2. The only problem here is that what is considered 'illicit' or undesirable changes throughout history. This creates a constant power struggle over the narrative of what is subjectively undesirable to the largest cohort of humans By defining Bitcoin as "monetary" we completely sidestep any need to have consensus on what is considered illicit material. We can agree that money is not illicit, and that provides the stable foundation. This becomes just another reason not to allow arbitrary data on the Bitcoin blockchain: we cannot know what multi media will fall out of the Overton window and thus should exclude multi media entirely. Completely side-steps the problem. Thanks for the discussion, 👍

Autism is not a superpower.

CSAM on Bitcoin is everyone’s problem. You would have to have that material in plaintext on your device as your node validates it. With nostr this is not the case. Nostr doesn’t have a blockchain that you _must_ download, with plaintext blobs you _must_ process. You can avoid it. Three additional points: 1. Bitcoin is a monetary network. It shouldn’t be polluted with multimedia at all. 2. Centralised and regulated platforms also have this material on them. 3. Nostr relays have the option to detect and deny illicit material, just like a regulated and centralised platform. #bitcoin #spam #filter #knots #core

If you don’t trust knots or core 30. Don’t fix what isn’t broken.

You are pro CSAM. Terrible take.

I have terrible internet right now, 3G. Trying to use Substack is impossible. Nothing loads. I guess nothing is actually cached client side? Primal, on the other hand, works fantastic. I can see all the notes that my device has already downloaded and it gracefully connects when it can. Substack (and many other centralised apps) are clearly designed assuming strong internet. #nostr #primal

It’s hard to escape JavaScript. That ecosystem has crazy momentum. GL!

I’ve worked on Gio, yeah.

People that run knots have plausible deniability: despite what actually gets into the block chain they played no part in relaying it. They took an active stance against it. They can then point at those who want more and cheaper arbitrary data and judge them accordingly. Keep your conscience clean, run knots. #bitcoin #knots #core

I can tell an Australian beach when I see one 🤙

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