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Juraj
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I don’t seek rigid structure — I seek resonance

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If cypherpunks had a space ship to fuck off to the stars, it would have a "Starfucker" grafitti on it and look like this.

Who joins us on the Starfucker? Don't trust, verify that it won't kill us all. It even has "Never die" on it! Much better than trust me bro.

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It seems super funny how corpos are trying to push stablecoin agentic payments with complicated schemes. Writing payments for every api call into blockchain, even the corporate one, is super expensive. So they make super complicated facilitators which would make it possible. It's basically prepayment to a third party.

We have @Cashu. Just include the token in request headers and get change if needed. No back and forth required. The API can claim the payment immediately on the mint. Even if you consider the threat model the same (mint=facilitator), the protocol is much more elegant. And even getting Cashu tokens can be done over lightning, so lower exposure and still no on chain fees or waiting.

I think the problem is that people are scared of sats as the unit. Originally I thought it's custody risk (and I mean mainly regulatory risk), but facilitators are custodians. I think it's just cultural. And Coinbase / Circle pushing their product.

Economic implications: Each usdc held on Base or elsewhere is financing American government. And each Base transaction helps the pnl of Coinbase.

Each sat held and used helps the parallel way. I made my choice. Better tech, better privacy and no financing of monopolies on violence. That's why my agent has a Cashu wallet. And I'd gladly finance good mints with some fees.
Laeserin · 2w
Perhaps, but tourist travel to the USA is down by 5% and foreign student visas are down by 36%. https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/tourists-america-us-china-canada-germany-europe-b2961553.html https://feed.georgetown.edu/access-affordability/new-data-showing-steeper-declines-in-...
Xavier Damman · 2w
Yes 💯. Big believer in pick your (benevolent) dictator. We are social animals. We live in societies. That means we have to give away some of our freedom to meet our fellow humans in the middle (it...
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There's a concept I subscribe to which is Similicity at the far side of complexity.

Yes, it's mental load to handle this, but when you handle it, there's simpllicity at the other side of it, which gives you even more freedom (including peace of mind).
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YoungSatoshi · 2w
Simpllicity was the word they almost said.
Kayne · 2w
Or with reticulum it only has to be complicated for the person setting it up. That's why I'm going with reticulum. People can download sideband or Columbia on their phones to connect over the wifi ...
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Yeah. In Europe, MeshCore is literally almost everywhere, at least in cities I've visited so far. Like you don't even need to put the lora node to the window, I can just use it from bathroom if I want to.

And I think it's quite nice to start the network effect with something that benefits from it - group chat. Which Sideband is not really good at.
Cat-Go-Purrrrrrr · 2w
kewl story bro... reality is it hard to setup a meshnet when your being bombed and you've been under sanctions for decade. everyone has a mobile phone and can use bitchat without any data or cell netw...
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You don't need to choose one or the other.

BitChat for everyone who has the phone (so basically everyone). Than you can use Bitchat-meshcore bridge - and you need just two - to connect those two meshes. Not perfect, it only interconnects the channel data (very hard to do full bitchat protocol bridge over lora), but this combines advantages of both - range of meshcore, no hw requirements of bitchat.

https://github.com/jooray/MeshCore-BitChat

And your point is exactly right - hard to setup when you're being bombed. But it's easier to connect a few areas with a few devices and then use bitchat in populated areas in the local mesh.
Kayne · 2w
Or with reticulum it only has to be complicated for the person setting it up. That's why I'm going with reticulum. People can download sideband or Columbia on their phones to connect over the wifi mesh to the lora mesh. Also I kinda like that reticulum uses encrypted key pairs like nostr and Bi...
Xavier Damman · 2w
Always. That’s why it has to be done at the smallest possible level. Today it’s at the global level (with current tech platforms). I’d argue we ought to decentralize that to the community level....
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I would go even further. There is no "governance model" that is generic. A community might agree on when you should not make loud noises, but they should not govern what you smoke on your balcony.

Meaning this - you can be sovereign individual in what your money for saving is. Your business, comunity should not touch it. But the community will probably converge towards several payment networks (which might be using completely different tech than what you save in). And these networks might be global, although you agree locally on the use. You might belong to several communities, even in the same area. The tennis court has different governance than the park.

I think this is what most people don't get - one extreme is statists thinking "you can't do cherry-picking, it's all a package - taxes, education, healthcare, roads, laws, ...". But with flag theory we see you can absolutely do cherry picking. Sovereign individuals think it's all on them. I agree there will be individual, community and global aspects, but each with cherry-picking where it makes sense.

And it's not designed, but discovered. (How it looks like is in @Tamers of Entropy).

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Xavier Damman · 2w
Yes 💯. Big believer in pick your (benevolent) dictator. We are social animals. We live in societies. That means we have to give away some of our freedom to meet our fellow humans in the middle (it’s also simply too much work, too much mental load to have to be in control of everything). But w...