I have thought about this a fair bit but not come to any solid conclusions. I think the Bitcoin network/blockchain is the perfect tool for the job allowing people to use their public key as their identity, as it is with nostr. this is for online use only, i don't see any need to doxx oneself as part of this solution.

I could see a world where people develop their reputation online using their public key as their identity. if someone posts something the world will be able to ascertain if it was truly posted by the person with the reputation or someone else pretending to be that person. in a world where deep fakes are commoditized I could see that being a use case, the importance of the bitcoin network being the source of truth is of course that it is owned by no one and can be used and trusted by anyone, as opposed to a centralized system being the arbiter of who is who.

Of course this goes against those who want to keep the bitcoin network focused on transactions rather than secondary use cases, I won't dig into that as I am not informed enough on the topic to have an opinion.

Of course the big issue here is a key pair is a tricky thing for the majority of people to manage, and while Fostr exists I have to wonder how realistic an pseudonymous identity service not run by a govt is, people are so uninformed I can't help but that that by the time a solution was robust enough for mass use and at the same time people understood their need for it, the govts of the world will have this shit even more locked down than they already do.

@freetx I have never heard of ION and very surprised to see such a thing under the MS banner, thanks for bringing it up!

and of course thanks OP for bringing up spaces, i will look at that too. For anyone else curious: https://docs.spacesprotocol.org/

I’d better go back and check their history but yes historically Murdoch media outlets and news.com.au is precisely that are the first to broadcast any negative Bitcoin news or report or paper etc.

This article is quite the U turn.

It’s probably too late now and that’s presuming you haven’t blown the whole thing but should anyone want some follow up material Daniel Batten was on a recent podcast where he went through some of the common misconceptions relating to Bitcoin and the environment, the climate activists might be interested to learn about what he is doing around landfill methane emissions which I believe is pioneering stuff.

An excuse for what? Western Europe is probably the best place in the world to be a renter, certainly renters in Australia for example, live a much less predictable home life.

Can you pinpoint approximately when in the 7 years since you last travelled abroad that you became a fucking pussy? STFU get on the fucking place you first world privileges POS and enjoy a lovely holiday on Spain that 99% of people in the history of existence have not and never will experience. The baby calamari in particular is recommended. I have nothing against you personally, I’m sure you are a nice guy, this is a shock an awe tactic because some people need to be suplexed in order to remind them that gravity exists. The same goes for 99% of the navel gazing posted that comprise stacker news’ front page.

Enjoy and have fun, I am jealous!

Thanks for this post. It gave me reason to once more try to understand what ecash is all about. This time it made sense, and based on what I’ve just read I think ecash’s time will come, and that is almost a certainty as Bitcoin adoption continues. At the same time I think that may still be some time away, a decade at least. You guys are so bleeding edge it’s not funny 🩸

I still don’t know what to make of Powell, presuming the whole thing is not a big act.

However I am confident that whoever replaces him will opt to reduce interest rates at the next scheduled opportunity. This will be good for Bitcoin I’m told, but what isn’t.

What I am curious about is will an interest rate drop be good for the US, and how will it ripple out across the globe?

I’m at the point where I understand it but cannot articulate it. Which naturally, I’ll try now. My subconscious is much smarter than my conscious mind when it comes to economic and sociological stuff, however my understanding, which may be retarded, is that when a credit based monetary system meets a commodity based monetary system, it’s not a big boom head-on crash, instead one slowly bleeds into the other, resulting in a slow deflation of prices, which is in theory good.

For my part I believe this is inevitable. However governments will need to react to this and it is quite hard to predict how that will play out. Their debts are insanely big, mostly driven by their local banks excessive lending, and the bleeding effect would ideally be a slow and peaceful deflation of prices and ideally keep people that have mortgages paying the same monthly repayments, or even paying it down more quickly.

Imo the most interesting thing about this whole thing is transitioning from credit theory of money world to a commodity theory of money system, it’s going to reshape the world. It will not make financial sense to lend money for the sake of interest, the amount borrowed will grow in value thus making the original borrowed amount easier to repay. This is entirely contrary to the system represented by central banking so expect their full force to come down once they realise bitcoin is more than an investment asset.

With that said, it’s already too late.

4859 sats in Australia 'Medium' Big Mac meal is 8065 sats.

edit: that Happy Bar and Grill (great name) burger looks very hell yeh brother. Definitely getting that down me if I'm ever in Bulgaria.

Yeh good times although 3 hours is quite a session. That’s an eighth of the whole day my man.

Open karaoke is not so common in most parts of the world, to the best of my knowledge. In most parts and especially Asia, karaoke means getting a few friends and/or colleagues together and you all squeeze into a small room with a big tv, karaoke machine, massive song book and two microphones. And so you sit in this small room where only your friends can hear you butcher classic after classic, ordering beers and snacks for approximately two hours. I am not a big karaoke guy but I have some very strong memories from those karaoke places, mostly in Korea and Japan. Good times. I’ve also done open karaoke but that is a lot less fun and arguably downright unpleasant especially if your singing voice is terrible, like mine.

Can you please provide the quote or link to it? I am keen to see.

Quick possibly dumb question but will the same model provide the same output to the exact same prompt every single time?

I love so many of Michael Crichton’s books, if you want to destroy a twelve hour flight a great start is grabbing one of his fast moving action thrillers such as JP.

With that said my favourite of them has never as far as a know been turned into a movie, and that one is Airframe. Highly recommend.

Great material for mis quoting though.

“…bitcoin supremacy…” “…where bitcoin replaces the dollar as the global financial lingua franca…”

I don’t get it, seems totally unnecessary to me? Sats has been working just fine.

Furthermore the abstract says the goal is to ‘reduce confusion’ and yet it’s suggesting to achieve that we go to a world where I’m explaining to the uninitiated ‘oh yeh that is a bit confusing, but once you understand that 1 bitcoin is comprised of 100,000,000 bitcoins it will all become much clearer’.

As I said I don’t get it, seems like a really stupid thing to want to change, but maybe I am missing something.

Is this your post @k00b?

If so a shame about the timing, the monthly Sydney Bitcoin Meetup was just last night.

If you are in Sydney for a stretch of time please let me know if you want to hang out, I’m always happy to give someone a walking tour of central Sydney, pointing out things of interest, good food, cool bars and pubs, and of course my specialty, pointing out the many Matrix filming locations in the CBD.

Yes, I come from a country where beer and rugby are core to the nations culture so until a few more boomer shed their coils, not drinking is the option that raises eye brows.

With that said and with the benefit of distance and the perspective it brings I can see that the level or drinking normalised in my home country is truly unhealthy. As I have gotten older and specifically over the last ten years I have cut back more and more, where I used to go through 3 litres of beer a night I now go through 0.7.

And there will be multiple alcohol free nights a week these days which once upon a time would have been viewed as heresy. Funnily enough thanks to spending too much time with a bad influence I can drink more then ever these days, although I am much slower and more moderated in my drinking as a result of that ‘training’.

I’m also more particular these days, I like my beer and have almost entirely given up on wine and spirits such as scotch which I used to love involving in all the sophisticated celebrations fine dining entailed with aperitifs and digestives etc. now I just want one or two of my favourite craft beer and I am happy with that.

Once a week I like to go out with a friend and ‘tie one on’ but these days that involves a lot less total volume consumed than the old days, home before midnight and a very mild hangover. I really fucking hate hangovers these days, my body cannot bounce back like it used to so I rarely drink to the point of having a bad hangover, once a year, maybe never. I’ve also come to believe that beer is pretty damn healthy for you, especially if free of preservatives.

I have my wife to thank for reining in my drinking, I am much happier drinking less but I fought her every step. I am pleased to see the kids today don’t drink anywhere nearly as much as we did but in my home county it’s going to take time, the drinking culture is deeply ingrained and there is little encouragement around excelling at academics, STEM etc. and much stronger emphasis on manly ball sports and drinking beer. On the contrary, if you excel academically and don’t like drinking, people will have it out for you nerd, we don’t like that type of behaviour round these parts.

Yeh this one, keen eye on this initiative.

ah I see! well, in that case imo no the guide is out of date, but tbh Nostr is very easy to get started with, just download Damus and create an account. Then, try to find Jack Dorsey. Look into his profile until you find the list of people he follows. Lastly, follow all the people you recognise. That's it, you're now on Nostr. Advanced topics include backing up your npub+nsec, connecting a lightning wallet using NWC, and zapping people.