Damus
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Muslim Bitcoiner
@Mbitcoiner

Co-founder of Bitcoin Majlis. Author of Anti-riba Money.

Relays (4)
  • wss://relay.damus.io/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr-01.yakihonne.com/ – read & write
  • wss://bitcoinmajlis.nostr1.com/ – read & write
  • wss://noornode.nostr1.com/ – read & write

Recent Notes

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Monero is probably the only altcoin that I won't call an outright scam like other altcoins, I actually admire that its users care about privacy, but its clearly in a position to lose against bitcoin. No reason to hold on to it longer than needed to make a transaction, therefore it cannot ever monetize because there's no reason to hold it over bitcoin.
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Side note that might interest you, the author quotes norbert weiner in the introduction when talking about power and communication
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I think one is primarily rooted in libertarianism and privacy for all, whole the other one is (more) rooted in ethics and transparency for the powerful, relevant passage:

"The two paradigms under examination here are May’s “crypto an-archy” (his term) and Assange’s “crypto justice” (my term). In the chapter on cypherpunk meta-ethics, I juxtapose the moral philoso-phies of May and Assange to highlight the radical differences between their distinct articulations of cypherpunk philosophy. May’s ethics are thoroughly libertarian, grounded in a theory of anarcho-capitalism, while Assange’s ethics are a version of virtue ethics, giving priority to the virtues of justice and courage. In the chapter on cypherpunk theo-ries of the state, I demonstrate how May’s anarcho-capitalist rejection of the state and Assange’s cybernetic theory of the state as a computa-tional network offer competing understandings of government power and surveillance. Some commentators have misinterpreted Assange, claiming that because he is a cypherpunk, he must be a crypto anar-chist (Manne 2011; Di Salvo 2020). As these chapters show, however, crypto anarchy and crypto justice provide radically different philo-sophical foundations for cypherpunk ethics, though each is compati-ble with the cypherpunk call for privacy and transparency."
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Currently reading. It's interesting to note that there are essentially two overall cypherpunk paradigms: "crypto anarchy" and "crypto justice". The former was promoted by Timothy May and the latter promoted by Julian Assange.

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But the problem is that there's no one to call a retarded faggot here because everyone on Nostr is automatically based