Let us all trust the new narrative!

ho bitcoiners that start with 1BTC? Sounds expensive.

That's gonna be boring for me. I browse my nostr feed with auto-play disabled - and I almost never play a video.

Bitcoin's power lies in giving people the ability to self-custody and to make private transactions between self-sovereign individuals without surveilling and controlling rails. The store of value narrative is a misleading maneuver; it gives power to the exact fiat control that needs to be made irrelevant.

Interesting. The texts do give some LLM-vibe, but I wasn't really sure. Probabilistically, I did lean towards that it was LLM-generated. Who types essays and articles by hand these days? Even serious scientists acknowledge having incorporated proof read LLM-slop into their works. What LLM do you use?

You mean like with a new nostr nsec? No, I have not tried that. Would be a bit tedious to recreate all chats and group memberships with a new nsec. But, I could of course just launch it with a new nsec and do nothing. Assuming you are curious about the OOM. A hint is that it doesn't eat memory ad infinitum after start if I click a chat. But now when I think about it, it does so after some activity in the group. It's been difficult to convert people, and nowadays they use whatsapp mostly again. So, I forgot that it sometimes OOMs in chats as well.

I'm on a recent Linux system that does not use systemd for pid 1.

Having loosely followed your journey, my conclusion is basically that you have let yourself be convinced that Bitcoin is a bad idea by AI. While a lot of what you write makes sense, what is missing is a sense of agency and possibility. It's all very boxed in, and gives a fatal and nihilistic impression. It may be due to the inherent limitations of AI, but also a result of only looking at the money - without considering yourself as an active agent. From the top of my head, I'd recommend you read David Greaber's The dawn of everything - or bring it to recollection. For me, that book really underlined that, yes - most of the times your "Controllers" will screw you over - but sometimes, if the circumstances are right, you get to sever their heads from their bodies and things develop in a different direction for a while.

The merchant isn't the enemy. The surveilling rails, such as Phoenix, are. Use your own node, or share one with people you know! Privacy AND self-custody is what makes the bank.

How on earth do you manage to push out these texts on a daily basis?

I was referring to the entire line of "research". And, I wasn't really implying that you are stupid. Not having considered everything, or not having assumed all perspectives, does not qualify for stupidity. Sure, I want Bitcoin to succeed as an MoE. Not sure if my whole identity relies on it. Maybe some does. Perhaps that was my point. I see myself as an agent set on its success - because it'd be interesting. And, success often depends on your ability to bind yourself. When it comes to progress, objectivity does not exist, ever - not even after a fact - because it's the winners that get to look back. I'm happy your research have worked out for you. You posting it on social media made me think you wanted some counter- and/or perpendicular arguments. I'll admit though that giving feedback without pissing people off is quite challenging.

Causality, correlation, covariance and coincidence are very difficult concepts to understand and separate. Especially today, when the confusion is monetized more than ever.

Spark is garbage from the outset. We'll see about how Ark actually helps trustless p2p exchange of bitcoin. I think it won't. Lightning is also becoming increasingly centralized, hostile/useless for nodes with pleb-reasonable capacity, and dominated by morons selling nothing but needless complexity and surveillance. Thus far, I'm not impressed.

Busy bodies for the win!

I don't think I'd pay for social-media-via-nostr. SN has some threshold of quality. Nostr may be uncensored, but most content is of brainrot quality. Nostr doesn't fix social media, just like Bitmessage and similar stuff doesn't fix free speech. Uncensored usually just means more space for crazies.

So. To buy dips at , Cloudflare needs to be up. Good to know. works tho.

BTFD and it'll be all better.

Dude. Reading your articles is no easy task for the modern brainrot audience. And now there is another one in my queue. Looking forward with interest and dread.

Hits the nail on its head. I do exactly this when faced with ad walls. Not sure that a pay wall would do better... But, one can hope. The thing is that just because something is interesting it's not necessarily valuable.

When desktop client? E.g. AppImage, static binary, Debian package or similar? :)