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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @rtr 14 May \ on: Alleged ex employee from NHI facility conspiracy
Interesting post. I haven't read it through, but here's something that stood out to me:
Biology is something I personally suck at, even at the high school level. I can say the NHI look like the aliens from close encounters. As far as I know, we never had one alive. My source who told this was unsure if it was true or not. I didn't learn much about this wing, it's the most secretive. I do know its HQ is hidden in almost plain sight. I still feel like the guy who told me where it is had to be lying, because it was just too obvious. There are bodies stored in other locations apart from their main HQ.
Johns Hopkins? For some reason that name popped up to me when the OP mentioned "because it was just too obvious." Maybe I'm wrong though.
7 sats \ 1 reply \ @rtr 13 May \ on: Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency | Threema Blog privacy
Looks like I can't self-host a Threema server, would be a "No" for me.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 13 May \ on: El Salvador Launches Website To Track $360bn Bitcoin Treasury bitcoin
This is actually cool. But I'm afraid other governments wouldn't even dare do this, haha.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 12 May \ on: BlueMatt: Next few years are as existential for bitcoin as the Blocksize Wars. bitcoin
If things stay the way they are right now, I wouldn't be surprised if Bitcoin becomes a purely KYC endeavor. Forever trapped as a dollarized asset to be traded and speculated on.
Even if you have non-KYC sats, every white market shop you can spend Bitcoin on will probably ask for KYC if you opt to buy stuff in Bitcoin. Perhaps, they'll just outright ban your non-KYC UTXOs because it came from an unregulated source.
The future looks bleak, if I'm being honest. I personally think that the only way to reverse this is if there's a massive culture shift on Bitcoin holders from "number go up" to actually thinking about Bitcoin as an alternative form of money.
109 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 12 May \ on: Maxis lost the plot bitcoin
Very apt comparison with the GNU people. Those are the same exact people that I remember whenever I read a post from a "Bitcoin maximalist."
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 12 May \ parent \ on: If people cared about privacy, Monero would have a higher value than dog tokens. bitcoin
Commenting here after the arrest of the Samourai Wallet devs and the shutdown of Whirlpool.
54 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 12 May \ parent \ on: Dubai Prohibits Privacy Coins Like Zcash and Monero Under New Crypto Rules bitcoin
Commenting here after the arrest of Samourai Wallet devs.
25 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 9 May \ on: Countries With the Highest Rates of Crypto Ownership bitcoin
https://sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/losaec1ain/contrib/share/ext/2024.5.09..07.13.42-Voro_Crypto-Ownership-site.jpg
Huh. My country's on Top 5 but it doesn't feel like it on the ground. This is probably 80-90% Axie shipcoinery that got the country on that spot.
55 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 9 May \ parent \ on: Which android nostr client do you prefer? nostr
The relay control. I find Primal's relay control a bit lacking compared to Amethyst. It's a bit of a shame since I really like how Primal looks and runs.
Oh, the lightning button as well. I don't use the built-in Primal wallet so it would be nice if that doesn't show up in my UI if I'm not using it.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 9 May \ parent \ on: Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership. tech
That's just the nature of hosted services and the web and the only way to amend that is to actually have control over your data.
It could be through self-hosting or at the very least archiving your online data.
21 sats \ 2 replies \ @rtr 9 May \ parent \ on: Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership. tech
Huh? Sure. But the goal is to minimize the amount of trust and control that you have to give to other people. I host a Nostr relay for myself, for example.
Sure, I might have to use someone else's relays for reach but I always have a recourse in that my notes are also being sent to a node that I control.
26 sats \ 4 replies \ @rtr 8 May \ on: Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership. tech
Ben continues in his thread, "[The moderator crackdown is] just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you."
Someone just realized the importance of hosting your own infrastructure. C'est la vie.
30 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 4 May \ on: Griefing Bitcoin's Testnet bitcoin
The fact that testnet coins are accruing value is insane to me.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 4 May \ on: These are the people that run us: Europe meta
No one even knows how it works anymore. It's like seeing a chicken run around without a head.
23 sats \ 1 reply \ @rtr 4 May freebie \ on: Michael Saylor Teams Up With Novagratz To KYC DEFI bitcoin
If this continues and people like them get their way, Bitcoin will cease to be freedom money. It will just be another dollarized asset for bankers and traders to gamble on.
So much for "hyperbitcoinization." 🙄
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 3 May \ on: Tether is beating Bitcoin where it actually matters. Personal_Finance
No surprise. It's being shilled to oblivion in Latin America and other third world countries for remittances.
I personally think that the reason why it's popular is because it's piggybacking on the "USD" label and the moniker "stablecoin", giving it an appearance that it's somehow better than the other crypto assets since it's "stable." It should be called "fiatcoin" fwiw.
31 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 2 May \ on: Do Nostr People Hate Stacker News? nostr
It's alright. I have a nostr profile, I occasionally check that for new stuff. I also occasionally check this website for new stuff.
They're just tools for discovery and discussion. It's nice to at least have an idea on the latest going-ons in the Bitcoin space.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rtr 2 May \ on: Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died conspiracy
Wow.
That's very surprising, who would've thought. 🤔
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @rtr 2 May \ parent \ on: 🕛 What is your time preference? culture
Well, that depends on you.
I have a set of things that I would consider frivolous, but those things might not be the same for you.