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Last Notes npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Have you seen the monetary node proposal? Its been developed and it seems to pick up right where we left off with BIP-110 in terms of fighting spam on the blockchain. I am still parsing thru it but looks promising. Would love to get your thoughts on it. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Matt, don't give up. Look at the Monetary Node implementation proposal that just came out on Aug 10th. We just need to regroup and try again. The mission to separate money from state will not be easy. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Yeah, only NGU matters now a days. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Share the sentiment. I hope we are wrong. I truly do. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Am in the same boat, I think. Bitcoin definitely shines a bit less bright as freedom money in my mind and makes me doubt it usefulness for freedom in the long run. This has shown that node runners are not in control of the network. Then what is different from fiat? Will it keep degrading and centralizing to just be another tool of the state? Is it too far gone and capture? npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact I have had this thought since finding out that mining is not part of a node for plebs. My first thought was, "this is stupid". I shared my thoughts and got a lot of pushback saying how inconsequential the hash contributed would be. That no one solo mining as a node runner would find a block. And so on. My thought, who cares? I want to be able to mine with my gpu or cpu. Why am I gate-kept? It should be my choice how and what I chose to deploy to participate in the network. Yes, single pleb is inconsequential, you might get a lucky Chad here and there. But that is not the point. The point is the aggregated hash from each node runner having a voice and hash in the mining process. It never made sense to me why nodes do not just come with the option, a simple switch, that marks my active or denial of participation in the mining game. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact @nprofile…hf7k is Wisp out in the app store yet? npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact I feel like all this Coldcard situation needs to be captured in a meme/maxim to reflect the lesson of this painful moment. Just like "don't trust, verify" or "not your keys, not your coins". npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact This was definitely a violation of one of our maxims, "don't trust, verify". But I think it needs to be captured in a more specific meme, one that captures the pain and the lesson of this moment, just like that one and "not your keys, not your coins" & "stay humble, stack sats". But one that captures the entropy responsibility. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact I was not affected by this whole fiasco, but this has been a definite call to action for me. I will upgrade my setup to multi-sig, look into seed signer, and just understand way better the hardware wallet concept, execution, and handling for self-custody/sovereignty. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact 🫡 npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact I wouldn't necessarily categorize these influencers as intentionally being misleading. I definitely will argue, and believe, that unknowingly, they have fallen victim to the fiat incentives wrapped in bitcoin language. Their bitcoin media companies all work and operate with the same incentives and structures as fiat media companies ( they still end up click bating you and getting sponsors that they cannot criticize). People think that by just creating bitcoin content they are magically unaffected by fiat incentives, and that is wrong as we are clearly seeing it come to light in this cycle. Bitcoin gives you the tool for you to have the time and space to start moving away from the fiat incentive structure. But it is a choice that has to be made and the gains cannot be measured in fiat terms anymore (algo dominance, conference access, etc.). We need to re-discover what is success and how it is measured outside the fiat incentive structure. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Damn, dude. You are as prideful as they come. You might be right only time will tell, but your pride...dang. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact I bought a Coldcard Q like 4-6 months back to update/"upgrade" my cold storage setup. For some reason I never did, even after spending the money on it. Procrastination, or hidden intuition, who knows, I am not one to usually procrastinate but in this instance it might have saved me. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Patter always repeats. People start steering away from Bitcoin's true purpose, start turning fiat again (if they ever weren't) and they always mess up. This time, unfortunately, it affected the plebs. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact This really does feel like the Bitcoin I came to realize was a key component to human freedom almost 4 years ago. The plebs are taking back control! I do hope we are able to keep this and not fall victim to the third-generation curse by the next 2-3 halvings or so. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Well someone that thinks that they do not err, is probably erring in more ways than he perceives or cares to admit. I am constantly debating in my head the reasons for running BIP-110. I do not give it as written on stone. For the time being, it convinces me as the path I want bitcoin to be on, the best money in the world. The moment the Knots camps starts steering away from it, I steer away from them. Just like I did from Core. 🤷♂️ npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact The only real one still in SB. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Here, we agree! Lol npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Thanks for responding! Posting the links here? Already doing that. I am interested, and writing about, game design, both at technical and philosophical levels. Is using hashtags actually worth it? Right now I try using (#)grownostr and gamestr, but to no real traction. Might be that I just need to be patient. Accustomed to the rapid, even if bot driven, feedback and interaction on the other social medias. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact @nprofile…68kt any tips on getting discovered on nostr/primal? Decided to only use nostr as my social media for content creation but I am getting nowhere here. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact You sound very tribal. Spam is bad but those trying to do something about it are worse? "Your node is not important, don't even try." And then you cite the very same case study which proved the dominance of the pleb nodes over the "economical" nodes? npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Live to fight another day to protect the blockchain. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Beautiful, simple, architecture. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Bitcoin is money, anything that dilutes that function is worth fighting against. If you can't get behind that then you are not a Bitcoiner. Bitcoin is not a flexible ledger to be expanded upon step by step. That is what we are looking to defend against. Keeping the best money humanity has ever had. I find that worth fighting for. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact This take and yours is wrong. It has always been about spam and stretching bitcoin beyond its pure monetary functionbut the also became about the protocol governance model and how its centralized and corrupted. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Hey! Thanks for reading the post. I am pumped you liked my purpose for this blog. If you haven't make sure to subscribe, its free. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact #introduction #plebchain #grownostr #gamestr npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact As I keep working in my self-sovereignty as a non-technical person...I am happy to announce that I was able to level-up a bit yesterday and connect my Obsidian clients to my Nextcloud home server. npub1wrvse9zhr2fkyxz9lyrft07678kvhza4qk8gkecfz9j52267pd5qedgsyw artifact Keep bitcoin as money so we can separate money from state.
