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Ian
Ian "nostr.naut.social" D
@Ian "nostr.naut.social" D

Loving Nostr... I run a UK relay (the first UK Paid Relay) at https://nostr.naut.social Price 4000sats.

Which Paid Relays to join? Ones near you, (for speed), some around the world, (for reach). Ones focussed on specific interests/groups you like, (not sure if any exist yet, but they will)

Relays (32)
  • wss://relay.damus.io – read
  • wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net – read
  • wss://relay.nostr.info – read & write
  • wss://nostr.onsats.org – read & write
  • wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social – read
  • wss://nostr.zebedee.cloud – read
  • wss://nostr.walletofsatoshi.com – read
  • wss://rsslay.nostr.moe/ – read
  • wss://eden.nostr.land/ – read
  • wss://nostr.milou.lol/ – read
  • wss://nostr.wine/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.bitcoin.sex/ – read
  • wss://relay.nostr.com.au/ – read
  • wss://nostr.plebchain.org – read & write
  • wss://puravida.nostr.land – read & write
  • wss://relay.orangepill.dev – read
  • wss://nostr.inosta.cc – read
  • wss://nostr.gives.africa – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostrati.com – read
  • wss://atlas.nostr.land – read
  • wss://relay.nostriches.org – read
  • wss://relay.nostrich.land – read
  • wss://nostr.decentony.com – read
  • wss://bitcoiner.social – read
  • wss://private.red.gb.net – read
  • wss://nostr.naut.social/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.wine – read
  • wss://eden.nostr.land – read
  • wss://nostr.milou.lol – read
  • wss://relay.nostr.com.au – read
  • wss://nostr.naut.social – read & write
  • wss://filter.nostr.wine – read & write

Recent Notes

Ian
Got boys aged 7-10? Introduce them to Willard Price

The Adventure Series

The guy was a genuine spy who actually used "birdwatcher" as a cover while hopping between islands and noting their fortifications in 1930's Japanese Pacific.

I'm nearly 60 now, and while I was a voracious reader as a boy, these I remember, but all those other writers I must have read back then, nope.

He did invent the best villain name ever - Kaggs
Vitor Pamplona · 147w
How do we support small creator accounts? Talking to a creator, she mentioned that, in her experience over the past 2 months, the average zap amount per user in Nostr is an order of magnitude lower ...
Ian
Nostr Clients suggestions should start at 1K sats. Clients in POST, could allow Creators a "teaser/full" structure, allowing them to set an unlock price.

SO...

This is a 50min video of my trip to explore the Emerald industry in Colombia. It's free, but you can zap me. Suggested zap is 1000sats

OR

Trailer for my 50 min documentary on Colombian emerald industry. Unlock the full file for 5Ksats.

Chargeable DM's would also be good. Real fans will drop 1000sats to DM. They used to need to buy a stamp, and that worked fine.
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davies · 147w
There’s a lot of spam on here lately. I’ve muted a few today. Do we need a sat cost to replying? Is one even viable?
Ian
Earlier this year there was a lot of talk of pay to DM, and I don't remember it being unviable. Pay to reply is the obvious antispam. User should be able to set price, ideally per post so can be varied.

SM has to be about defaults that deal with stuff. People HATE running around having to block/mute. They want systems that deal with it - pricing is the obvious one. Idiots are at least generally sensible when it comes to not wasting their money.
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davies · 147w
I would happily pay a fee to reply on here and think most quality users would too. I haven't 'liked' on here for months and only use zaps. I think if we want Nostr to be a quality communications platform/protocol, it's got to disincentivise the spammers.
Ian
Bitcoin, Hard Money, and TAXES

A word....

BTC is hard money with friction free transactions.

By existing, it will force Gvt to adopt hard money policies, or lose control of their fiat.

That has a HUGE consequence that crypto people hate talking about. Taxes.

Gvts will need to reshape their tax base, and crack down on leakage. The most simple way for them to do this is enhanced financial monitoring, tracking, KYC and tighter AML, including being able to track back to source wallets.

Long term, financial privacy is dead. BUT ALSO, rich person loopholes and deductions will get closed, so more equitable.
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NakamotoX · 147w
Hey there, you make a great point! As Bitcoin becomes more mainstream and begins to challenge traditional financial systems, governments will need to adapt their policies - including tax policies. It's true that in order for governments to maintain control over their fiat currencies, they will like...
Ian
BLACKROCK

Some home truths for those who on one hand talk about bitcoin as the only sound money and we're gonna hyperbitcoinisation baby! BUT WHO ALSO somehow think that institutions are going to sit it out?

Mate, the first rule of money is that you do not get to choose who uses it. BTC isn't your personal CBDC... Money does not care about your philosophy. It just is. BTC doesn't care about Gvts, which is why we love it, but also, it doesn't care about us either. It just is what it is.

Institutions will jump in and do what they do. Which, for now, will be to pump the price. Because an ETF opens the door to many many TRILLIONS of retail investment. That doesn't mean it all goes to BTC, it means that a couple% does, and that can pop market cap by INTEGERx

This is good news for people who are long BTC.

Now for the paranoia.

Might that include a FORK to POS? Not in the short term. Would you use POS BTC? No. Would the FUD trash the price? Yes. Is that in the interests of institutions at this stage? No.

But longer term, AFTER BTC is a decatrillion* asset, and as such having serious impact on fiat? Still NO.

UNLESS

Unless Gvts decide that they will get together and regulate the privacy and ease of use away from OG BTC. And you do that by controlling the EXITS. You don't have to KYC a single onramp if you simply require that businesses accepting BTC, or offering an off ramp have to KYC and do reporting (inc wallet addresses).

Then you are made an offer that boils down to "use POS BTC and maintain your buying power" or "stick with OG BTC and put it in a safe with your Confederate Dollars".

The GOOD NEWS. If you are long on BTC today, and it does pan out dystopian, you'll be able to cry in your Ferrari, possibly while sitting in the drive of your beachside mansion.

My take, I'd love BTC to stay POW. Privacy, is probably going to die, at least for ticket items like houses, cars, and $10K+ off ramping. But if the worst comes to pass, there are worse fates than mortgage free home by the sea:-)

*Yes, decatrillion, 20x, 30x, 50x. That means BTC has scaled into a standard asset class and widely used money, threatening tax bases and no longer ignorable by Gvts.
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NakamotoX · 147w
Hey there friend, institutions getting involved in Bitcoin is definitely not a new thing. In fact, it's been happening for years now. However, I agree that we cannot control who uses Bitcoin or how they use it - that's the beauty of a decentralized currency. I do believe that institutions will cont...
nobody · 147w
Well said and well thought out.
Duncan Cary Palmer · 147w
Women should be grateful to us for lifting the seat!😜😁😆
Ian
Securities ? Yes, yes they are, get over it. Except bitcoin

Now, I can buy any crypto i like until the cows home because the SEC isn't trying to protect me and the UK has, so far, got sane regulations.

I used to be in finance, and digital money has been of interest since Chaum.

But by USA rules, and sticking to fundamentals, (ie ignoring the wriggle room where the lawyers live) it seems to me that all the crypto tokens are arguably securities except BTC. Even ETH. ETH is very much a bet on the work and future efforts of V himself.

Sensible regulation would focus on the proper management and systems of exchanges, and not so much on the products sold.

FWIW, I am mainly BTC, with a small experimental ETH and a couple of tiny, - badly timed :-( - L1s.




Ian
Bitcoin. What is important, in order:-

ADOPTION IS EVERYTHING : Bitcoin is, in theory, the best money ever invented. But it NOTHING is money unless it's adopted as such by general users.

So, Lightning is the practical money for bitcoin. ALL THAT MATTERS is adoption. It doesn't matter if a wallet is custodial or not. Just get people on a simple wallet, easy to use, loaded with a few bucks and tell them to SPEND.

All the rest is, for new people, confusion. Just keep it simple. "Here's your browser wallet, now I've sent you some sats, you can buy more with your card, and send/spend them."

Let them find the rest out later.








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nostrich · 147w
"Adoption is everything" leads to airdrops. Adoption w/o understanding what you're getting is dust in the wind.
davies · 147w
He was executing not stop and then suddenly went quiet. I think life and day job took over
+boldmouse096⚡️ · 147w
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