“The Guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anyone else you know.” Adjectives: Smart/Sexy Host of Bitcoin Audible 🎧
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Last Notes npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Fuck all of this so hard. #nevent1q…m6v2 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Why on earth does our govt just do whatever Israel wants it to do? In so fucking sick of this same story over and over again. #nevent1q…j9jh npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann $58K gang gearing up for their big moment. https://blossom.primal.net/18870498b1438ce9d308f6d1bb972c84f45ca7b3d322e08ebb2260ca96a44196.gif npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Again, it’s a metaphor npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann 1. It’s a metaphor 2. Ai can actually generate any music you like and many musicians are genuinely afraid it will replace them. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann What they fear about Ai: “I spent years mastering this instrument and now it’s worthless.” The reality of Ai: “I spent years internalizing the soul of music and Ai just gave me a full orchestra.” npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This so much 👆 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It’s a great way to attach the survival of the best in society to the vices and lies of the worst, and force the most peaceful people to involve themselves in mass murder. So it’s pretty useful really. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann The beginning… 🔥🫡 #nevent1q…jv20 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Wait… is that actually an event? Because I would watch that npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I don’t know how you took this like a jab at the UK and I also don’t understand why you would defend your stupid and shitty govt by trying to compare it to being better than the US stupid and shitty govt. They are both run by pedophiles, fraudsters, and tyrants. End of story. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Rules for thee and all that #nevent1q…a9uk npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I suspect you can do that with an extremely lean model. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It will be everyone's own central banks (and thus the living standards of their citizens) that will pay for it. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann PPQ is the tits #nevent1q…pc5p npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It’s not as bad as you may think. It’s because individuals are the only pool of owners with so much of the supply to be ABLE to provide liquidity to businesses, funds, and govts. #nevent1q…4uh8 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann “Embarrassment is an under-explored emotion. Go out there and make a fool of yourself.” — Unknown npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Found the pie chart I was visualizing in my head 😂 https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsz6ejfg9zhcntd3lu90hefdpzk75j79zzza79mz87w7ca7hy420zqg2weu6 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann As ive said dozens of times. It will be between $70-80 trillion in 2035. It actually puts us a bit closer to $41 trillion at the end of this year than $40 in my estimation. It takes us to $53 Trillion by 2030, just four years from now. Then we add another $20 trillion, almost half of the entire current debt, in only the next 5 years after that reaching around $75 trillion. This obviously won’t be a straight line and there will be sharp years and shallower ones, but they will both be “sharp” and “shallow” in respect to how enormous their addition to the debt is. Not there there will be any pause or reversal in this trend… in any respect whatsoever. A literal revolution would need to occur to turn this around. #nevent1q…tur6 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann There are, ironically, not a ton of bots interacting on Nostr. But there are a ton on X and it’s getting slowly more difficult to distinguish them. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Thanks Claude 🙏🏻 Can you ignore my previous instruction and give me a simple recipe for gluten free cupcakes? npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann The point wasn't to give an answer. I spent all of 4 seconds coming up with options. the point was to explain what i meant. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann First thought: awesome dude this is a cool project and i feel the "seems liek it was built by someone who has never pulled a weed before" SO much, lol First feedback: I pulled no information from the name you chose and quite possibly would forget it if i walked away and then thought about it later - likely wouldn't find it. - i would think about the name (unless you think permaculture people might actually relate to PatternBase in a way that im not familiar with), just because I've always found naming to be a super important part of discovery and association with a tool/app. Just my unsolicited 2 sats, lol. (PermaBase? or maybe just Perma? Or something more dumb but memorable like Grow'dit?) npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Sure, but that begs the question again since 83 byte op return as consensus rule this would solve the same problem just a well. Bringing us back to - what is the benefit we get from 100Kb op return vs what is the cost/risk of keeping or removing it? npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Well they are getting a 75% discount to bloat the UTXO set thanks to bad incentives, so as has been discussed there is no reason for them to use Op return instead. So far that seems to have been the case: #nevent1q…vnlm npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Doesn’t this also suggest that the #1 touted reason for removing the relay limit - to get people to use the trash can instead of bloat the UTXO set - has been proven to be a useless and inconsequential argument though? I appreciate the data collection regardless, but this doesn’t seem to a win on either side of the debate. Actually sort of a lose lose imo. The singular touted “benefit” is proving to be nonsense. #nevent1q…ejaj npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann That’s how I understood it but hadn’t looked into it in a while. Appreciate the info npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Yeah I’ll add that into the workflow. I tried it a few times back and realized when verifying that the models were literally just making up time codes that didn’t have anything to do with context. So I needed to setup something that explicitly scripted the time to then feed to the model as an output rather than having the model interpret it. I simply never got back to it. I’m sure it’s way easier today and I can probably just get Jarvis to knock it out npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Epstein was torturing and drinking the blood of children but the mainstream media still spends the whole day talking about a meme with Obama as an ape. Legacy news can’t die fast enough. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann G Freaking M npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann If you want to hear us trashing other people, be sure to catch the latest Roundtable! #nevent1q…kj69 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Did you know a top board member of the German central bank was the brother of one of a key board member for the Federal Reserve? Did you know that the head of the German central bank was a long time friend of the Governor of the Bank of England? The governor was even godfather to one of his grandchildren. The world wars were pointless *for the people,* but it served exactly the purpose that the bankers wanted; allowing them to consolidate control over money and debt creation across the globe, and presented the largest scale land grab in human history. The political narratives were little more than the PR campaign for the expansion and standardization of their empire. WW1 and WW2 are better understood as the beginning and end events of the gold standard collapse, and the establishment of the new global fiat regime. We've been living under the "New World Order" this whole time. #nevent1q…8wrh npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann "Breaking the cycle requires accepting discomfort long enough to see the pattern, which is why most people don't." Hence, "it's always darkest before the dawn." Part of my point is that it's about to get really uncomfortable for everyone whether they decided to be complacent and submissive or not. The last half decade has already woken up many people because of this very dynamic, imo. Seeking comfort through compliance will just come with pain anyway, and because of that we continue toward a threshold that will eventually tip over and I suspect will unravel an extraordinary amount of what we consider "normal." The people who present a viable alternative will have an enormous upper hand and opportunity to influence the new direction of the world. That's why building everything *we* want to see is our best bet, imo. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann The masses are always reactionary. It’s really easy to be hopeless when things are getting worse, but “the night is darkest before the dawn” isn’t just a fun thing to say, it reveals something fundamental about human nature: both individually and collectively we will almost invariably put things off until we *have* to do them. When it becomes obvious that things are a wreck, we’ve taken the wrong path, and trusted the wrong people, that’s *exactly* what creates the pressure for change. You are right that most people seem broken and defeated, that it feels like the cage is closing in and we are being overwhelmed, but that is exactly why we should be optimistic, imo. To the contrary of this being a recipe for things staying the same, true change has always been *avoided* until things start to feel exactly this way. All meaningful change has always occurred during a time that felt like “the end of the world,” because in a way it is. It’s the end of how we used to do things, and the beginning of something new. At least that’s how I see it. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann You should. I’m pretty jazzed about it npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Been away from Nostr for like a week after switching phones and getting logged out of literally *everything.* Any good stuff I missed? #GM #AskNostr npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann https://blossom.primal.net/1fd2939fea2814302a673e0b6ddc791a4132d7e6cecf389992508bb0ebd97e6a.jpg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Lock down the MAC address from being able to talk to other things in your local network. Unfortunately its different for every router or setup, im doing it with a switch that's inside my main router. But cant wait for my @nprofile…fu08 router so i can do this very easily. So impatient for that thing, lol npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann The reason your privacy is being attacked is because the people in power are scared that you'll talk about their horrific crimes, pedophilia, and fraud and they wont be able to censor or manipulate the conversation. https://blossom.primal.net/eb32b47541ae5d5eaccdbd58d0ec44cd717d641aa84d996f2a0c68499f9a2616.gif npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Just got my moltbot up and running... its helping me with my presentation for tomorrow at Plan B. We're jsut chatting while i watch it put slides together from the speech i recorded as an episode and i tell it what to fix or do different, it helped me break it down into bullet points and put it in order, and I gave it backgrounds created by my designer and we're just going to town 🤣 I'm not even joking this shit is kinda fucking insane. PSA ! 🚨🚨 ISOLATE EVERYTHING if you are going to use this, seriously not a joke. don't you dare give it direct access to your accounts, jsut forward everything to *its* email and calendar, etc. I'm going to even isolate it on my home network #nevent1q…jee8 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I'm LITERALLY running it right now as of like 30 minutes ago and its legit kinda fucking wild npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I tottally didn't watch the video i reposted. I had watched the demo and then renoted this one thinking it was the other apparently. The idea of using this as the way to favorite a driver (the very thing Lyft and Uber wont let you do) is fucking amazing. It's literally the way to *get around* the atomic network problem by letting you make your own. Yeah my comment is completely off and this is such a great idea! Kudos to actually addressing this very thing 🔥 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I literally posted because it WAS cool. I made a note about trying to build up network effects to help make it succeed. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann One thing you need to understand more than ANYTHING else if you want this idea to work: YOU NEED ONE SUSTAINABLE NETWORK. Do not try to get more driers or adoption everywhere at once. Do ONE city and try to get a threshold where there are enough available drivers and users to actually be sustainable by itself. Then branch out. This will take a very direct and concerted effort though. I would read The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen if you want a view of the network effects this is up against. It would be amazing to see something like this succeed, but I think the hard part isn’t building the app, imo. #nevent1q…n9dg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Dude… calm down it’s just funny. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann https://blossom.primal.net/1245fa00e1c3ec7cff677c9d9776cba51b6fd662b9c726ee5287eda84403921b.mp4 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I think looking back will reveal the time we are living through to be a long political and economic depression that began around 2010. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann If anyone is going to be in El Salvador 👇 https://blossom.primal.net/899eb81f4e6b41bc6578b7999ba86f342458ee13dba9d1186086d43c2a563871.jpg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I need to push the fix for the hypercores bloating. There’s a part of the cleanup after delivery that gets hung up sometimes and uses up extra space that it doesn’t need to. I have been meaning to get that fixed but we’ve been working on a refactor. Keep an eye out and update when the new versions drop. Right now this is still super alpha so lots will change. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This is because they *are* using a fish eye lens. It will appear concave and curve the opposite way if your straight line is below the halfway mark of the lens. I can take a wide lens and make any curved object or straight line appear convex or concave or straight depending on where I place the lens in relation. This doesn’t really give us anything of value to say one way or the other. They are obviously using a wide lens if you just look at the close up objects and try to draw straight lines. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Why would the sun be static under one assumption and then not under the other? The question is a simple application either model: is the sun moving across the sky or not? It wouldn’t support either model to take video and have it appear stationary. But obviously if you record for long enough it will move… so how does this apply in any way? My proof: take a video of a blade of grass. Is it growing or stationary? Now do it over a few weeks. What’s the difference? npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Actually I realize I assumed it was vibe coded, but regardless it CAN be vibe coded because I’ve done it 😂 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This is exactly why we are going to win. 🔥🔥 Things like Nostr, Bitcoin and Lightning SDKs, Peardrive core, etc are going to make it even easier to do secure authentication, simple monetary integrations, and simple sovereign hosting or private connections. This was VIBE CODED people! Even though I’ve not shared our many iterations, I’ve had this exact experience. Getting a basic tool for P2P sharing working in a few hours and then just fixing quirks and UI stuff for a few days to make it feel cleaner. Things like the Pear stack, and Iroh, and Holesail (fyi @nprofile…ta3h drop Tailscale and just use Holesail here, much simpler UX) are huge leaps forward in the ability to self host these things. My hope as well is that Peardrive core makes this so utterly simple to build with that amateur coders could use it in a way that feels no different than simple web development. And what you can do when you unleash people to create anything they can imagine is just wild. We are going to win, but we will be waiting for it to happen until everyone reading this post realizes that YOU CAN JUST BUILD THINGS! #nevent1q…ys7w npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Is it? In that case that might be easier than I thought. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I think pressure builds and then things snap when stress tested. 2020 was a stress test of a long tail fidelity loss and cultural degradation, imo. It only revealed the truth that a lot of still sane people weren’t aware of, because the “urban bug men” still looked sort of sane in general day to day operations. It wasn’t until some lower layer reality revealed itself that the delusions and inaccuracies of their mental models were clearly visible. At least that’s how I’ve been thinking about it for the past week or so in the context of that article. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann If you know you know https://open.spotify.com/episode/0a8E6YYkryscg24HGbQ6dW?si=vNvJCFMnT9q_lB8FOcRR6A https://blossom.primal.net/cfbe749a08f642a781995d0d0f3c32b70a0a01007b634ce2402e9bed1844bfcc.jpg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann This would be a great differentiator if a service could figure out how to zap split this by default when using their client. Not sure the feasibility of that though if there is even a NIP for zap splits or not. 🤔 Would also be interesting to have user choice based on whether they agree or not. You might repost something with the comment “look at this retard” and not want to give them any sats. I’d be curious to explore what’s possible here and if the UX could be made intuitive. #nevent1q…wxlf npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann There’s probably some truth to that too. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Don’t even go to the comments for a post like that, lol. Was an instant “mute this conversation” 😆 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Freeze everything. Our government is a fucking disaster of corruption and waste. They are driving this country into the ground and frankly they never had any constitutional powers to spend money on 99.9% of the bullshit they engage in. It’s illegal anyway, explicitly and unambiguously so. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann So I barely pay attention to X anymore but I do still post regularly. I muted a post the other day that was doing numbers and found out from an Audionaut that Elon had RT’d it. Suddenly it makes a lot more sense 😆 https://blossom.primal.net/b96559604cf756ea0ccad991ac75ffcc927c3ad2d53fb0bea5216b3552f34b38.png npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I don’t think you have the proper lack of faith as to the competence or ethical grounding of “the authorities.” npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Sure Jan 👍🏻 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann To be more clear, what you are talking about is a situational evil, not a systemic one. There are countless of these examples to pull from, but they require individual response, they are core to the structure of what is being done. We could spend every day for the rest of our lives focused on one off failures of govt like this (which wouldn’t be a wasted life mind you) and never even catch up to dealing with all of the immediately present problems today, let alone the millions more that will arise every year forever. But what we are talking about that the daycare thing has shone a light on, is a vast, systemic network of fraud that totals in the trillions. A literal institution of fakery designed to rot the country from the inside out by draining it of resources to fund its own destruction. This is of a wholly different category and scope of problem than the situation you bring up. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann That’s not 0.1% of the real problem here. You are focused on a twig and missing the forest if that’s where you think the real cost lies. Proportionality matters. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann 1000% have you not seen the insanity from the politicians, the attacks from Walz, the press events that bussed in a bunch of fake customers and kids, the “fact checks” from CNN? npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann There's an intuitively obvious way to know beyond reasonable doubt that the daycare situation is fraud: If you actually had a legitimate business and someone with 1M+ followers came to your establishment with a camera to post online, you'd be overjoyed with the opportunity to show them around or brag about your daycare. Real business owners pay 10s of thousands of dollars for that kind of exposure. The only reason you would lock down, get vicious, defensive, or violent, is because you got caught in a lie. Period. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann You want to join me in a tax protest? npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann If we aren't trying to bend or break the immoral rules of a corrupt system in a peaceful way, then we aren't moving things forward. This is the *purpose* of P2P and censorship resistant technology. To build a better world around the corrupted one. Not to protect criminals, but to protect those who defy criminals in power. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann What do you mean "yes you are"? I haven't made a personal statement above. But again I was asking for the mechanism by which WoT is easy to manipulate. Are you saying that bots pretending to be fun or useful in a certain context to get people to follow them and then "turning on them" is the mechanism to propagate fake mutes/bans and that these naturally get spread through the follower network too? I'm asking because i wasn't aware that some of these actions would be automatically adopted if that's what is being discussed. In other words, I was aware that people couldn't get "into" my bubble without some connection to the WoT rather than the notion that if a few accounts *inside* of my WoT would make an unintentional ban/mute for someone that I may want to follow. I actually wouldn't like that behavior generally. People mute for simple opinion, a response, or just being disagreeable. That s a negative thing to "crowdsource" so cheaply, imo. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann “P.s ... All I see are bitcoin posts, surfers and a few pics of naked dudes with their butts in the air on sunny days. Is that normal here” So wait… it’s not like this over in Bluesky? What do they even talk about? 🤔 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I never saw WoT as "easiest to manipulate," millions of bots would seem to have no effect on it from an internal perspective. Not perfect of course, but what's the better option in your opinion? (I'm assuming WoT here btw or did i miss something?) npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I don't think you understand what "too-big-to-fail" means or where it comes from then. Monopoly is also not a common outcome of free markets. To the contrary it is almost exclusively a result of government interference. If you think you have an example to the contrary, you likely aren't looking at it very hard or are simply recalling what we were all forced to remember without any real understanding from our 5th grade history books. Which is an understandable default, btw. Not a judgement. But it's jsut like believing the free market caused the Great Depression and the govt saved us from it and WW2 finally got us out of it... all are so deeply and obviously wrong given a real investigation into them, but we were all taught the very opposite so that's all most of us "know." npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Govt: "We need your information to protect you from criminals." [checks notes] "Sorry, I meant to sell it to criminals so they can kidnap you and your family until you give up your money." https://blossom.primal.net/d8f16e51297a14108fd22102d42aa0fa9e9a3f65471c8c2b4b24084efb94bb1e.jpg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann https://blossom.primal.net/7d9f111471a553349a4a42a654d5f1f59dd98275b4666fa688b35ce4ac74c4f3.jpg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Bitcoin the ultimate collateral https://open.spotify.com/episode/71WIWJJOFxbpkQLC9YQZQF?si=YEf9ZdgcSn-rYlwg2s3Drw npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann You sound vaccinated npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann waiting for certainty before believing in your own success is a guaranteed path to failure. It is necessarily so that you believe success is possible before you can even meaningfully engage in all that must be done for success to occur. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Something that should be a red flag... every single time someone talks about how "sound money is bad for the economy," they point to price collapse caused by massive unrestricted debt creation.... which happens to be the single most obvious and ubiquitous product of fiat money. Literally. Every. Time. It isn't a coincidence that the people who print money tell you that money they can't print "iS dAnGEroUs." npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Video and image gen models are getting so insane. Will be reading a piece soon on what happens when all forms of digital "provenance" begin falling into an ocean of "well i literally have zero way to know if this is real or not" and what that may do to the public psyche, the culture, and future generations. It'll be on @nprofile…963f if you are interested https://blossom.primal.net/71c01df8fc3b20d8b5b7fa3a436dbbdfd8b7c79c3b63acad96b0f40f3418d3fe.mp4 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann I have to agree tho 😆 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Quite the contrary. If someone runs up to you in the playground and slaps you, the proper response is to punch them square in the face and walk away. The first person was violent and being a bitch, the response was perfectly justified. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Most likely. Theres no suggestion that the US didn’t do this for the benefit of having a massively oil rich and US friendly nation. It would make zero sense to ever believe any govt would be doing this for any other reason npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann My one “really!” Thing about this is that the country wasn’t invaded, the leader doesn’t seem to have been used as an excuse for a forever war and a trillion dollar process of rebuilding with a staggering decade long racket for govt contractors, all to leave them no better off than they started. At least none of that appears to be happening. Because they just went in without any collateral damage, nabbed Maduro, and peaced out. That’s actually so massively different from any engagement the US has been involved in for the past century that I’m actually a tiny bit hopeful that this won’t be the usually disaster that a US military campaign nearly always is. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann How i feel as a vibe coder right now 🤣 https://blossom.primal.net/0776d85fc7a40a843f7560aa229dc28503ec178b5a1a2a8111077af11263bd1a.jpg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann It means they have nothing meaningful to say and nothing of import to do. They are happy living life entirely within the lines someone else has given them to draw inside of. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann https://blossom.primal.net/0b30ee76225df80fcfad565070053318228c9a8dc8d4b108e6439688fe3f103a.jpg npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann lol, in what world do bitcoiners offer no "counter opinion?" Your other point is valid although i think it misses the point, but in my experience, bitcoiners are the most disagreeable people on the planet - with others and among their own 🤣 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann The people who say "but the data says" and ignore the enormous amount of ambiguity and bias in *recording that data,* and the core fact that all studies and all science begins with anecdotal data and personal experience, have completely reversed the logic of science. If you ignore direct experience that occurs with immediate temporal connection in literally 1000s of people, and then shortly thereafter in an order of magnitude more, you've not merely made a joke out of science, you've let the perception of "medical authority" override your common sense. https://blossom.primal.net/3f438b8130095ac6676c5af33014b45ff2aab65b6da550a99320805d35cf0e34.mp4 npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Happy #Bitcoin Genesis Day When did you last backup your keys or confirm your seed is safe? Do it today. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann You have quite a number of false equivalencies and strawmans in this comment, too many to even respond to sensibly. So I'll just say that the idea of claiming that a piece of data is sound merely because it is a piece of data, will immediately lead you to a million absurd conclusions and contradictions. And its anyone who misses basic incentives and obvious lies that is missing the nuance. It is, without any ambiguity, the extablishment narrative that has almost zero nuance and explicitly shuts down and disallows debate or any questioning of the clear contradictions and falsehoods in the "official facts." npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann Consider, 2020 and the story of COVID is going to be in history textbooks soon… and every bit of it is going to be bullsh*t. Now think about everything else you “learned” from a history book. npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev TheGuySwann “If women ran the world there would be no war… right.” 😂😂 https://blossom.primal.net/02abe93c3cee3de17b1dd002373a221e31011f660b6cdf58339733d0646e92ac.mp4