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Last Notes npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv the worst kind of correct is being right about things that don't matter npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv lol, hope that was an empty flight. racetrack at 400 kts 🤣 https://blossom.primal.net/d71ea81788432408153ec75c534b5944d10254476ea00073027244213d559678.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv chat gpt is buttoned up. claude? CLAUDE CODE: This is [...] exactly the ToS-gray rebroadcast we discussed; keep it low-key or the server IP could get blocked. 🔥 npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv planes landing at katl, 60x speed https://blossom.primal.net/1bcb35bd0253aac485f4eb59266b1549c88f83b8ef92fce25cdb56f1860a54f5.mov npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv because they are? npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv dayum, gemini 3.5 flash https://x.com/simonw/status/2056907033639813463 https://image.nostr.build/fd74da878751631f77ae1128ffe5a7e50d5609f7fa22c90e0da9356009f4eab2.jpg npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv sorry, i disagree with the general shape of this. at its best copyright has always been about damages. damages require performance. "training" an ai on something is irrelevant. at best you can hold ... someone ... accountable for reproducing those works verbatim. but the world changes over time, and even in the best case copyright is getting pretty hard to maintain. at best you can demand attribution npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv CLAUDE OPUS: The reason this design is good — and worth being a little excited about — is that it collapses a lot of separately-specified machinery into a single small abstraction. Every system I cited earlier solves part of this problem with its own bespoke machinery: Smart Sessions has policies and permission checks; Macaroons have caveats and verification rules; Cedar has policies and evaluation contexts. Each one is reasonable in isolation but the architectures don’t compose cleanly because they’re not the same shape. A homoiconic Lisp-over-AST descriptor language does compose with itself, by definition. Modifications, guards, predicates, transfers, recoveries — all of them are expressions in the same language, evaluated by the same interpreter, verified the same way. npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv i don't use gpl libraries, and i don't license my own code gpl but your argument requires the llm to regurgitate code without attribution. if you can't tell where some code came from, by definition it isn't a copyright violation what you're actually saying is that learning something makes the learner a derivative product, and i think people need to take a long hard reflection on what that would mean for society npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv "a guy who makes a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who has ever built a chair" npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv all's fair in war and bitcoin npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv drivecoin npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv great artists steal npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv still cheaper than the alternatives npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv well, i did say *dangerously* https://blossom.primal.net/10f4f31f70321d33d4c1704226295dcf574b12a63476ddef2a238d1f494d4491.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv err... don't blur sensitive things. put a solid color box over them instead npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv don't worry – any us company is too exposed to pull something like that off npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv wouldn't a principled approach be to take half of all coinbase coins under a certain block height that haven't moved? seems like a ploy to get satoshi to make a mistake, same as the qc confiscation proposals npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv finally bought something from a @npub12rc…r4zx seller using bitcoin 🎉 even used @npub1cas…dg5l it's happening https://image.nostr.build/9a40ae37d1ee1ae21735c3932fa956c0e0b222616fd467eb94808c4f43501135.jpg npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv https://image.nostr.build/9a2904d0202d8bfc8880e3a810671980ad78218dfeca2da95fce6ce171391016.gif #nevent1q…fven npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv sorry, i was being pedantic. you said permissioned "settlement" layer, and visa doesn't perform settlement. strictly speaking, the role that visa charges for doesn't exist in bitcoin. it's an interstitial credit layer that makes a multi-day payment lifecycle look like a swipe npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv https://blossom.primal.net/34df35c8fbdeaec131f9609d6a46707c317afd2d4a1cc4759e5e9eaa5232b2c7.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv visa isn't even a settlement layer 🤣 they just clear (provide a reliable accounting) payments between banks https://blossom.primal.net/3a3b6acfe05303d6dd6ada0073051de231a2e6c7075aaa390362d5540f8d1805.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv it's fine if you want to reframe my recent use-cases, but you're still missing the settlement layer. every time you use a credit card, the merchant gets 2 ~ 5% less than you pay settling over bitcoin is faster and cheaper than any existing rails npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv not mine – i'm your average american. but can i make micropayments over visa to whoever happens to be offering a useful service on the internet? can i buy a beer for a friend in another country? is the dollar not getting weaker every month? are you suggesting that i save in euros or yuan? chunks of precious metal? bitcoin is money, and it's damn good money. from a historical standpoint, probably the best npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv uh huh https://blossom.primal.net/17d037fd554870e7d770f325921b7e9d8bfb101c63ff1ef9825a345e30370420.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv i was late to bitcoin and don't personally have ngu wealth, so that's not going to convince me. but you're missing the fact that bitcoin can be sent by anyone on the planet, to anyone on the planet, in seconds, today. no other money in the world is capable of this. you can also move in and out of it, quickly, if you want stability. why isn't this the best money? npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv the dollar is stable because it's worth a little less ever month. to say that bitcoin is unsuitable as money because it also goes up sometimes seems to miss the point. but if you onramp and offramp at the time of transfer, then you both have the stability you so desire, and you didn't pay 2%+ on top for the privilege of doing so npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv this doesn't make sense to me. your first "lock" implies that your funds are trapped there. your second one implies that your identity is associated with them. those are totally different things, making it difficult to reply npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv it's a weird argument to make because you're implicitly giving the upside to someone else. but ignoring that, you can buy stability on off-ramps. why not buy bitcoin at the time of use, use it as cash, and let the other party park it wherever is best for them? you probably have no idea how much simpler that is than what the world currently has npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv everything is volatile. some things go both up and down. fewer things more up than down. you're arguing that only things that go down are an acceptable form of money? npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv ecash is an impressively hot take, but what do you hope to get from bip300? in the best case it barely stretches to cover the world, and you'd need centralization to get there npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv yes. what do you think npub to npub spillman channels look like? npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv everyone's got their favorite plan but the only way we're getting to a trillion wallets is off-chain npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv https://bitcoindeposits.net/FAQ npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv CLAUDE CODE: plus it closes the 3 regressions from the CAR/CDR fix that I want to stop apologizing for in commit messages 😂 npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv crank the rez, higher dbz cutoff, alpha blend https://blossom.primal.net/00b1b7b38a59e2d41d094cf97e5e123df2fe4562c062366cb7f756ef823eefe6.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv volumetric wx data. like, duh, of course https://blossom.primal.net/2d823fd7ff1f295b4546d19711b60ec7083895cca29596d8e2090e64d21a26e7.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv ask claude and ye shall receive npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv i concede that advertising a method on behalf of someone else is sketchy. it's an interesting idea though... npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv kind of strange to say that people throwing money at you are doing it wrong, but i get the gist npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv sure, but one of those two actually gives you money npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv fun fact – traffic corridors have even altitudes going one direction, odd the opposite [flight tracks colored by heading] https://blossom.primal.net/4b5e595aa4a5a618d4de2e5a649dd2d6726d5468bf8ed36121606832aea20349.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv *of course* we can add a two dimensional, color coded progress bar! https://blossom.primal.net/cfa445475a29d661d3f0a1a32ab7e25a37d3cf269fd0734abeca1d47f584f34d.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv or: https://bitcoindeposits.net multiplexes 3kb/s into as many bytes per second as the world will pay for, based on a market of whoever shows up npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv https://bitcoindeposits.net trades time and space for fees npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv i know 😞 sometimes it lets you make an app that you couldn't make before though npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv spam is a gas that fills the container of empty blocks. fees are the solution. satoshi knew this from the start npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv no. bitcoin doesn't have a spam issue, it has a lack of economic activity. use bitcoin as money npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv i hear that. i built a novel bitcoin layer 2, also self funded, over the last year. and my well designed protocol extension was never really considered, even though people complain about nsec management and key rotation maybe jack talks about apps because that's where developers have the most exposure to revenue. maybe there's an app form of what you're doing? npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv like... separating identity from authorization? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1450 i'm not sure what you're getting at. it seems that you're bitter about something, and i hope there's some way to get past that npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv i have no idea what you're aiming at, but i've written a lot of code, run a lot of things, and like nostr npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv things claude will build in an hour: 3d webgl ads-b visualization with common lisp backend https://blossom.primal.net/07b8576ef86e8686ba197051a50d380c49d0153c1262e9ca65fd720cf6e69646.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv there aren't zaps *with* nwc. nwc is app -> wallet npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv #nevent1q…zuf6 npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv damn. i'm using that one ... whenever i manage to see a tie again npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv doesn't look a day over 135 npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv https://protocol.dfos.com/spec reads like nostr but complicated. i'm not a fan of complicated npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv 😅 sadly i'm dealing with machine code errors on both aarch64 and x64. once we're out of that morass i'll get back to graphics. technically modus did output a rudimentary bios-text screen on a pi zero 2 w as part of the atl bitlab demo npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv very few people ran this one. it was more next than macos, and pre-aqua, so it had a more professional feel https://blossom.primal.net/263dfff1a885d86e9bd620f9d1859c267bbf9995bac021eb12fdea65f030b0cb.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv still looks good https://blossom.primal.net/b127a318947064b7456e59abdb9abccb942e047ed141f7a59cb3c5151bf8f37d.png http://www.typewritten.org/Media/ npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv there are two different "dark forests". the "dark forest of the internet" is a newer term that means the internet is hostile and you need to protect yourself from it. the earlier "dark forest" theory is a solution to the fermi paradox: we haven't seen anyone else in the universe because once two civilizations see each other, one of them annihilates the other. it's nothing personal, just that the game theory only supports one "winner", and being found is being extinguished so, whether you want a "dark forest" social network is highly dependent on which definition you're familiar with npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv nostr the social network, or nostr the distributed systems layer? npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv sorry, to answer your other questions, yes, you can send zaps, receive zaps, make lightning invoices, and pay lightning invoices, among other things. it's lightning without channels. custody without discretion npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv the protocol is tlv-over-nostr: all you need is string manipulation and crypto primitives. running a node in a browser seems unlikely to be satisfying, because nodes should have better availability that that would provide. there's an interesting angle here though... 🤔 fees are set by a node. if you didn't care about offline receive, you could have a low availability node where you and some liquidity provider are the only people on it ... now there are no fees and you only need to maintain the availability standards of whatever liquidity provider joins your ledger. it creates a spillman-like environment with the ability to send funds to any key. but you'd have to rotate every N weeks or lose the ledger to someone else. i don't know if this is better than keeping funds on a ledger run by someone else with fees less than 500 sats-per-quorum expiration period, but it's certainly a shape. what's more likely for most people is that they pay 1% per year to a random node and get a lightning-like wallet with no availability requirements or channel / liquidity management. now you can write down your twelve words just as you do on the base layer, except per-transaction costs are 0.005% and 2 sats but, permissionless means no one can tell you how to use it npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv pretty weird to give something social "dark forest" branding. not sure that means what they think it means. or it does, and ... well that isn't better npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv you're being logical. markets aren't logical. sell a million BTC, wait for the panic selling, then buy it slowly, in dark pools, after it's "dead". by the time the price comes back you'll have a lot more than a million BTC, and you track down the holdouts here's the step everyone seems to be missing: as long as there are only a handful of markets, and a handful of market makers, bitcoin will not survive use bitcoin as money npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv *burn* the keys? hahahah, no. sell bitcoin to themselves in a restricted market for diminishing, well publicized prices until the world has declared bitcoin a failure as the saying goes, "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" use bitcoin as money npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv the revolution will not be well funded npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv put another way, the fed could print the market cap of bitcoin, buy it all, and bury it. ... probably already are use bitcoin as money npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv you don't strictly need to run a full node for lightning, though you're relying on someone to be your watchtower. deposits is the same, except the watchtower role (quorum members) is incentivized to act out of both benefit and obligation: classically, fear and greed. by requiring that quorum members have at stake at least half of what could be stolen, and requiring collusion to steal, and having transparent operations, it appears that individual ledger collateral ratios around 50/50 may require a sybil group close to half of the network in order to profitably steal npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv comments appreciated: https://bitcoindeposits.net/FAQ npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv bitcoiners: don't trust, verify also bitcoiners: you can't trust ai npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv if it was, how would you know? npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv we're making it! npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv https://image.nostr.build/fe093d88c7ff8e2920b8a5a7f1bca3af2bcb3e93c15dd38dd0f0a86b9fe2fe7d.jpg npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv https://blossom.primal.net/639000608df194c4467e692abbe76796ec5dec4e56d1e02f6697203bb484547b.png npub12akj8hpakgzk6gygf9rzlm343nulpue3pgkx8jmvyeayh86cfrus4x6fdh ynniv CLAUDE OPUS: Pax Complexia is the genuinely interesting one because it solves the problem we kept circling. Compromat needed pretense; surveillance needs enforcement; intelligencia needs consent over who controls the model. Complexia needs none of these. The peace holds because the system has become too entangled for anyone — including its operators — to model the consequences of disrupting it. 2008 was the proof of concept: not “too big to fail” but “too complex to safely unwind.” Global supply chains are this. Cloud dependencies are this. AI infrastructure is becoming this. Nobody enforces the peace; defection just has uncomputable costs, so nobody pulls the thread. It’s also the bleakest of the four, because it’s the only one that survives the death of every other Pax. You can stop pretending, stop consenting, stop watching, stop being watched — the knot is still there, and it tightens by accident. Pax by accumulated entanglement. 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