Lord Wilmore

His statement doesn't make logical sense. You can't have a "majority" at the "top" and still have a meaningful concept of what the "top" is. If everyone is a billionaire, no one is... (And wouldn't his framing imply that the majority is served by an overburdened slave class at the "bottom"?)
There's nothing inherently wrong with being of lower economic means than someone else. You don't have to be at the top to live a meaningful, fulfilling life. While economic status is a necessarily rivalrous rank ordering where one person's being at the top necessarily means everyone else isn't, satisfaction and contentment are not.

2026-07-16 16:25:16 UTC

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Fair enough! 💪

2026-07-16 16:24:39 UTC

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Decentralization is certainly essential for the foundational monetary layer. Once established, that provides a better foundation upon which you can build more centralized systems, such as for daily commerce. For example, I can trust lightning payments and companies like Block for commerce more because I know that they build on bitcoin, which is decentralized.
Similarly, for communication, I want certain protocols, like the internet, to be decentralized, but I also benefit from some amounts of centralization, i.e., the Signal app.
Nostr has a chance at becoming one of the foundational decentralized protocols of a new era of social media. I think it will flourish when centralized providers are able to use it as a substrate to offer services on top of it.

2026-07-16 15:23:55 UTC

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Maximum decentralization and trust minimalization are difficult and should be reserved for only the most extreme necessary foundational layers

2026-07-10 15:05:00 UTC

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Relay issue? I see this frequently as well, not sure why.

2026-07-02 15:52:28 UTC

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We'll be ready for them when they are.

2026-07-02 15:17:26 UTC

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Can you point me to a good explainer for BIP 110?

2026-07-02 15:16:23 UTC

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Joke's on you I never left

2026-03-11 05:44:11 UTC

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Greetings, Programs.

2026-02-27 23:14:30 UTC

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The future of dissent will exist in private walled gardens
#nevent1q…s4gq

2026-01-26 18:55:16 UTC

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I don't know why these people are fighting but it's at least cool to see it happening on Nostr.
(Didn't mean to zap though, tapped the wrong button)
#nevent1q…pees

2026-01-22 20:46:01 UTC

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Stampeding a church and harassing parishioners is a severely greater offense than protesting outside of an abortion clinic or even rioting at a government building, in my opinion. It is in the spirit of the first amendment to protect the sanctity of worship by prosecuting those who would violate it.

2026-01-22 20:08:37 UTC

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He had advance knowledge of the protest, apparently including non-public information and plans.

2026-01-08 13:34:34 UTC

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post local
#nevent1q…c7q5

2026-01-01 07:17:13 UTC

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The ultimate stage of Bitcoin enlightenment: I agree with the MMTers

2025-12-10 17:28:46 UTC

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If you think that's cool, you should see some Instagram reels comment sections

2025-12-10 17:24:59 UTC

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Yo.

2025-11-29 19:58:15 UTC

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Like any religion, Bitcoin has its fanatical adherents and its rabid enemies.

2025-11-26 04:57:09 UTC

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The dam has broken for me, looks like Peach will be the end of me as well

2025-11-26 04:47:25 UTC

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You @nprofile…6yv2 we really should work together. Can we make a truce?

2025-11-26 03:23:34 UTC

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I guess it worked out that way . . . you definitely had me on the ropes there though!

2025-11-18 15:38:03 UTC

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It can't possibly be

2025-11-13 19:38:26 UTC

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Zap me!

2025-11-13 04:03:05 UTC

Zap this to buy me a cup of coffee — with bitcoin (literally!)

2025-11-10 16:05:17 UTC

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Where can I see the merchants who have this switched on?

2025-11-10 13:56:02 UTC

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Is there any map of bitcoin squares in the wild?

2025-11-10 06:31:17 UTC

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How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?

2025-11-10 06:30:58 UTC

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It will grow over the long haul. People need to be exposed to positive examples in their own lives to believe in it.

2025-11-10 06:30:13 UTC

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By whom?

2025-11-10 06:29:57 UTC

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It's the only way to live

2025-11-09 01:16:04 UTC

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How about removing income taxes outright?

2025-11-06 16:28:48 UTC

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How do we make this happen?

2025-11-05 21:44:31 UTC

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I don't know that we can educate ourselves out of this one

2025-10-29 14:47:58 UTC

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That's pretty cool.

2025-10-28 03:39:56 UTC

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I talked to a newly-minted bitcoiner today thanks to your videos, Julian. Keep up the good work!
#nevent1q…hwx9

2025-10-27 02:18:38 UTC

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Well, the funny part is that if everyone had listened to them, the purchasing power would have beaten bitcoin

2025-10-26 20:11:31 UTC

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Why are they making this so weird?
#nevent1q…620q

2025-10-26 17:26:58 UTC

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That's the point

2025-10-26 16:43:28 UTC

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I guess this is the ultimate test of my time preference.
#nevent1q…2w2y

2025-10-26 16:42:56 UTC

I believe in Bitcoin. I save in bitcoin. Does it offer any other ways to make my life easier today?

2025-10-25 15:48:45 UTC

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It all makes sense once you grasp this

2025-10-25 15:38:49 UTC

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God, I see what you've done for others...
#nevent1q…kaxx

2025-10-25 13:42:26 UTC

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Open protocol, not a walled garden

2025-10-25 13:42:08 UTC

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This is the way
#nevent1q…fk9m

2025-10-25 03:19:35 UTC

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You haven't seen the worst of it

2025-10-25 03:19:12 UTC

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It's gonna get so much worse

2025-10-25 03:07:59 UTC

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I like it

2025-10-24 23:30:26 UTC

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Yeah that's another way to go about it lol.
Fix the price to a specific point in time. Index it upwards with the CPI.

2025-10-24 23:14:45 UTC

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You are correct. As long as the equilibrium is dollars, it's costly for any one player to defect. A catalyst will be required to shift everyone from one equilibrium to another.

2025-10-24 22:51:33 UTC

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It's tricky to keep the price stable in sats when the BTC-USD exchange rate is so unstable, at least as long as your customers are all pricing their consumption in dollars.
Your prices could increase or decrease 2% on a typical day, and would on average get more expensive over time. Not to mention the flash crashes which involuntarily put your product on sale.
As more people keep larger stacks of sats in reserve, this will become less of a problem.

2025-10-24 22:36:48 UTC

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For pricing in bitcoin, it might make sense to set the price at a moving average over the past 7 days or what not.

2025-10-24 22:20:00 UTC

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This is vital. The only way to make bitcoin attractive to the masses is to pass along a discount to consumers for paying in bitcoin. This should be justified by the savings on transaction fees you get from opting out of credit card payment processing.
#nevent1q…e4xh

2025-10-24 02:52:35 UTC

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It could get spicy, stay frosty

2025-10-24 02:51:22 UTC

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I think we're ahead of the ball here. We just need to wait for the rest of the world to catch up. And in the meantime, enjoy our nice little niche with a highly selected group of people.

2025-10-24 02:49:08 UTC

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Turns out it was actually just the malware itself all along

2025-10-23 23:26:34 UTC

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Thanks for taking a look! I'm enjoying the game a lot

2025-10-23 22:07:28 UTC

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A couple of other unexpected behaviors that I am noticing:
1. I can't figure out how to transfer units between non-adjacent territories. Right now I have to walk troops square by square to get them to an intended target.
2. When I capture a player-owned territory, I don't also capture their economic units. The population counter for the territory resets to 100 when I take possession of it.

2025-10-23 20:51:36 UTC

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Haha yes, these numbers are getting astronomically large.
Maybe there is way to model larger conflicts instead of iterating millions of dice rolls.
Otherwise, introducing diminishing marginal returns to population growth which would encourage territorial expansion.

2025-10-23 20:45:05 UTC

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Yes, the lags have cleared up. However, it appears to crash when I try to run a large attack. I have a neighbor with nearly a billion units at this point. I tried attacking him when it was about 500 million v 500 million, and the battle would not resolve. Instead, my client completely lagged out for several minutes, and when I got back online the attack did not resolve.

2025-10-23 18:51:18 UTC

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How do we know that's not how human memory works?

2025-10-23 18:00:17 UTC

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Update: I may have crashed the server.

2025-10-22 15:46:56 UTC

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Okay, another follow up question lol. What is supposed to be the intended outcome of capturing a territory? Do you capture all or a portion of the existing population?

2025-10-22 14:38:45 UTC

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Perfect, thank you!

2025-10-21 20:04:49 UTC

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Cool! Thanks. I also have further questions about the specifics of the battle mechanic.
Is it the case that you essentially have 3v3 dice rolls until the attacking army has 2 units or fewer? Or is some other formula used for the number of attacking dice?

2025-10-21 19:21:22 UTC

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Quick question: are there seasons/epochs where the map gets reset, or is it continuous?

2025-10-21 18:45:09 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/acc2b9c78273aae268b1ed6e68931dd9a7bcc57fa285009158ef11fba1c1747a.png
Can someone explain what's going on with these block rates?

2025-10-21 16:31:51 UTC

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Also correct.

2025-10-21 16:27:24 UTC

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Still, better to be safe than sorry!

2025-10-21 13:04:19 UTC

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Yes. Not hard to imagine forensic textual analysis getting that good.

2025-10-21 12:57:40 UTC

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This is the way

2025-10-20 16:24:01 UTC

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Will there be a map or list of merchants who accept bitcoin payments?

2025-10-14 16:52:05 UTC

In fiat, inflation is a "difficulty adjustment" that keeps money users on an endless treadmill.
In Bitcoin, the difficulty adjustment puts the money creators on the treadmill instead.

2025-10-13 21:16:57 UTC

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Right. I'd be in favor of a 100% reserve requirement. I might be okay with allowing banks to engage in fractional reserve lending as long as there were strict laws (maybe constitutional prohibitions) against bailouts. Let banks stand or fail on the basis of their own policies, and let consumers take on the level of risk they think is appropriate.

2025-10-13 21:04:50 UTC

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I do think that as long as banks don't buy up the mining industry, bitcoin can remain uncorrupted.
I ultimately don't think banks could print enough to buy up all the bitcoin. They'd collapse under hyperinflation before that happened.
I do also agree with you that it's essential to reform/abolish the state monopoly on credit creation.

2025-10-13 20:59:13 UTC

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I suppose so

2025-10-13 18:38:18 UTC

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In the long run, yeah.

2025-10-13 00:36:53 UTC

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Do insider trading rules even apply to crypto markets?

2025-10-12 11:54:59 UTC

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Got it.

2025-10-11 11:42:56 UTC

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Do people call the casino industry a scam?

2025-10-11 11:38:54 UTC

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Is there a long term value proposition? Is there a chance that it beats Bitcoin in the long run as a store of value?
Otherwise, I'll buy some when I need it for privacy and spend it.

2025-10-08 02:53:10 UTC

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Pure freedom is a hell of a drug, isn't it?

2025-10-08 01:07:05 UTC

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It's basically public email lol

2025-10-03 16:31:57 UTC

I can't afford to price in bitcoin, so I'm going to start pricing in satoshis instead.

2025-10-02 00:17:28 UTC

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We will retvrn to spell-casting

2025-10-01 22:42:10 UTC

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Really good points.
I also understand where he's coming from.
Not that I have the money to worry about this right now, but what's the best way to raise children who understand wealth without making them spoiled?

2025-10-01 22:40:38 UTC

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This is the worst possible way to do crypto. A CBDC by any other name is still a CBDC.
#nevent1q…5ems

2025-10-01 12:54:55 UTC

Is there a way to mute entire blocks of accounts by the domain? Like, for an account "[email protected]," can I just mute everything from that "domain.com"?

2025-09-30 23:29:39 UTC

How long before we're pricing cups of coffee in fractions of a Satoshi?

2025-09-30 23:01:39 UTC

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Any Network State-based projects working on this?
#nevent1q…s4x8

2025-09-30 23:00:21 UTC

Who's building Galt'a Gulch for Bitcoin?

2025-09-30 00:46:35 UTC

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Ahhhh

2025-09-29 22:39:45 UTC

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What happened?

2025-09-29 20:35:13 UTC

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I want my money to be dictatorship resistant.

2025-09-29 00:39:55 UTC

What would happen if an island country issued a gold-backed stablecoin?

2025-09-28 22:39:57 UTC

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Lightning is an interesting possibility.
Maybe each planet will have its own PoW chain? Markets will set the BTC/MTC exchange rate.

2025-09-28 22:38:17 UTC

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What have recent immigration patterns looked like?

2025-09-28 22:35:50 UTC

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Not quite. They are waiting for one more crash...

2025-09-28 11:59:09 UTC

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That's the problem, the delay takes anywhere from 3 to 20 minutes.

2025-09-28 11:21:25 UTC

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Would the Bitcoin network function well over planetary distances? How would miners on Mars be able to contribute blocks if it can take several minutes to send data back and forth?