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Wait, who gave you permission to do that?

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Recent Notes

Gregor · 3w
Continue performing and let marketing do the messaging.
Gregor · 4w
Can art separate from its artist technically and do the resentments depend on that fault?
jb55 · 14w
its not that surprising. its how its set up. contributors decide what they want to contribute to a project, then they approve/deny based on that. if they don't work on that even if damus hq requirements change, then they will lose their grant because their reports won't match what they said they wo...
Gregor · 46w
Why would a single government seizing large holdings, eg. Strategy, have significant effect on the network? If they sell, past larger sell events, the German impoundment, MtGox reparations, affected e...
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I don’t necessarily disagree. Lyn didn’t say exactly what Napier thinks govt would do so I’m guessing what I think is the most common claim: they co-opt a few entities that control a large (and growing) portion of the UTXO set and either outright seize it, or do something else like a forced fork onto “gov chain”.

Maybe that’s not the angle. But if it is, how does the likes of Nostr combat it effectively?

And if it’s not the govt angle, what would it be?
aidan · 46w
*don’t see
Gregor · 46w
Why would a single government seizing large holdings, eg. Strategy, have significant effect on the network? If they sell, past larger sell events, the German impoundment, MtGox reparations, affected exchange rates pretty temporarily.
Lyn Alden · 46w
Russell Napier is one of my favorite macro analysts that I've learned a lot from over the years. Had the chance to meet him at a dinner the other day and discuss macro with him. Him and I often have ...
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What precisely is it about improved coordination that negates the financial repression tools which Napier claims will destroy Bitcoin?

I believe we need to make it sufficiently difficult for the government to control large swathes of the UTXO set to avoid what happened to gold, but I don’t quite see how better/faster communication tools help very much there.
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Gregor · 46w
>for the government to control large swathes of the UTXO set What does that mean? Control large BTC holdings, control much mining power, hash rate?
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It’s not quite that stories are dangerous; stories are powerful and often useful.

In the west, the vast majority of people in the world have no *need* for rationalism, and in most of the rest of the world being rational can easily lead to ostracization or worse, which is why…

aidan · 47w
Maybe I’m dumb!
Gregor · 50w
Can you practically price out the esoteric or scams?
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I think so. I would make two bets about where we’ll be in 10 years and am trying to figure out the implications:

- Block space will be massively more valuable than today, as tools built around digital permanence become more prevalent. Almost all monetary transactions will be fully ‘packed / joined’ with many inputs and outputs, which spam transactions of today don’t need to compete with.

- Mining will be massively more decentralized than today making it harder/more costly to route around nodes.

I dont think the second one matters so much as it relates to spam, as we only need a small minority of nodes to propagate transactions based on likelihood of mining vs a qualitative assessment of what’s inside, in order for it to be mined.
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