djschnei | 1 year ago | on: Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price
You don't adjust currency pairs for inflation
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djschnei | 2 years ago | on: Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr
Nostr isn't a blockchain...
djschnei | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: An app to create asynchronous micro podcasts
This would make for a very interesting nostr use case.
djschnei | 2 years ago | on: Misinformation should be refuted, not censored
As long as the ruling class thinks your speech is responsible, then speak away!
djschnei | 2 years ago | on: Misinformation should be refuted, not censored
That comparison makes zero sense.
The police are a way for us to delegate our self-defense to a third party, the state. We give the police a certain level of authority in return for (hopefully) safety.
In your metaphor you're suggesting, "don't protect yourself, you already delegated that responsibility".
Censoring speech on the internet is exactly the same delegation of responsibility. "Don't protect yourself, delegate that responsibility to the censors".
Your metaphor is making the opposite point that you're intending.
djschnei | 2 years ago | on: Social Media is broken. Can we fix it [with nostr]?
This protocol gives me so much hope
djschnei | 2 years ago | on: Tips for Building Resilient Payment Systems (2022)
Lightning network did it better
djschnei | 2 years ago | on: Damus to be removed from App Store as zaps could be used to sell digital content
The twitter app literally has the same tipping over bitcoin/lightning functionality built in. Also there is zero way to paywall content (or anything) within the Damus app. Literally just (the) tips. Apple and Will have a call this afternoon to discuss - hopefully logic prevails.
djschnei | 2 years ago | on: Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is fighting for the future of open source software
Craig Wright is such a gigantic tool. Anyone that puts an ounce of weight behind a single word of his is an even bigger tool. Sue me.
djschnei | 2 years ago | on: Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction
Ideally you'll connect to several relays
djschnei | 3 years ago | on: Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
Seems like a direct implementation of how Nostr handles verification. Nip-05 describes how it's done and is successfully implemented in most Nostr clients:
djschnei | 3 years ago | on: Mohammed bin Salman: Saudi leader given US immunity over Khashoggi killing
We want to be green so we're trying to stop drilling for oil. But we also need oil because our society runs on it. This guy has oil. This guy can therefore do whatever he likes.
This is obviously way better than drilling at home.
djschnei | 3 years ago | on: Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
"Degrowth" aka the poor will have to deal with it. aka lots of death and suffering in places I can't see so it doesn't matter.
djschnei | 3 years ago | on: Online card payments still suck
I do believe 99% of crypto projects vastly misrepresent their risks, their control/influence structures, and their intent. I do believe 99% of crypto projects are clever ways to hop on a hype train to farm dollars from retail. I do believe Bitcoin is different. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency -- 'crypto' is colloquial term to specify an industry.
djschnei | 3 years ago | on: Online card payments still suck
I made characteristic claims about a solution I see fit for the OP problem statement.
When he asked if I was talking about ETH, I told them I wasn't.
You're hijacking a thread to push your form of maximalism.
Would you like to discuss the differences between ETH/Altcoins and Bitcoin/Lightning? Or would you rather just label me a maximalist to dismiss the claim?
djschnei | 3 years ago | on: Online card payments still suck
Average fees are fractions of a cent.
Centralized systems are much easier to capture and historically always are.
A 51% attack on Bitcoin/Lightning isn't impossible, but incredibly unlikely.
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/fact-check-darpa-funded-report-o...
djschnei | 3 years ago | on: Online card payments still suck
Not Ethereum. Ethereum has a lot of massive problems. Not 'crypto' which is by and large a scam.
I'm talking about Bitcoin with The Lightning Network.
Most payments I make over Lightning, regardless of size, carry a fee of fractions of a cent. On an average day I make 50+ payments over lightning - on aggregate the fees add up to less than $.01
djschnei | 3 years ago | on: Online card payments still suck
If only there was an instantaneous, nearly free (cost per transaction), opensource, anyone-can-access, infinitely scalable, infinitely interoperable, payment rail that we could start building solutions on top of...
djschnei | 3 years ago | on: Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta
ummmm, have you seen our criminal justice system?
djschnei | 3 years ago | on: SEC charges Kim Kardashian for unlawfully touting crypto security
Nope. Merely pointing out that the transfer of wealth from fleeced retail to founders/insiders can hardly be summed up by 1 promotional transaction. This was a project and promotion with a single goal: hype and price pump in order to transfer wealth.
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