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The odds of nuclear armageddon can increase while deaths in war also go down. Both can be true at once.
BITKARROT · 1w
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You should tie bitcoin to your npub. Because it's *useful.*

Right now, knowing your nsec is compromised requires the person who compromised it to be a white hat. That's the entire security model. I've thought about key compromise since day one and this solves a massive headache.

Bitcoin on the npub is the most explicit pay-for-your-privacy system online. You choose the size of the carrot, and you only pay if it fails. The money never leaves your hands unless your nsec is already compromised.

If the funds move, you know. Immediately. The more you leave on the npub, the harder it is for someone holding your nsec to sit still.

The previous incentive for black hats was to sit on an nsec as long as possible and collect as much compromising data as possible. Now they have to weigh stealing the funds directly vs hoovering up private data indefinitely. Every day they wait, they're paying an opportunity cost you set.

The effect is that your private DMs and other encrypted material are safer, because the sooner the canary dies, the sooner you move off the nsec and the less future data gets compromised.
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Alex Gleason · 3w
This is a cool framing
Sam · 3w
Could you expand on that? What do you mean?
Aaro profile picture
Violence (or the credible threat of it) does solve resource allocation and control problems in the real world. States can seize your hardware, raid your house, imprison you, freeze your bank accounts, conscript you, or destroy your means of living. Cryptography protects the information, but it doesn't protect the resources needed to generate, store, or use that information. In the end, the side with superior coercive force can still win by controlling the physical layer... computers, people, energy, networks, money.
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Sam · 3w
That makes sense. An organisation that revolved around information is most secure, as it can be encrypted. Second it must be distributed. But indeed, then we get to meat space, where we're still vulnerable.
Sam · 3w
Could you expand on that? What do you mean?
Laeserin · 4w
One of the reasons I quickly soured on Anarcho-libertarianism was seeing how many of them don't believe in Natural Law. They just want to get away from their responsibilities to others and escape the ...
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If Natural Law defines marriage, where does Natural Law specify that a spouse is owed her prior lifestyle indefinitely?

Marriage is currently a Government thing. Divorce is a government thing. The local community doesn't evaluate the value of a woman in a divorce, the court does.

You're not defending Natural Law, you're defending alimony and child support