You nailed the wealthy. The poor is more fundamental

They typically lack the discipline to save, even if they do have enough income.

Both cohorts typically lack the education and willingness to go deep down the rabbit hole in order to project into the future.

The masses will not adopt, it will be forced upon them.

This is how it has always been, with all money. First, Gresham's Law is at work to transfer value into the new system by those who DO have both discipline and education. This also accelerates the debasement of the current fiat. Then the fiat becomes too difficult to work with as volatility shifts from the new system to thr old system, due to hyperinflation. This is when the new system starts to dominate as a method of exchange after acting as a store of value. This is when the wealthy are forced in. This shifts the unit of account from the old system to the new system, and then the poor are forced in.

Plenty of examples of this throughout history.

People can complain about the speed, adoption, whatever. But its all playing out exactly as it has before.

Came to say this. Lots and lots and lots of methods.. most are very easy to spot in a jpg.

IE, we are going to grant ourselves powers to prevent you from leaving.

Love the reminder on keeping your hope in the right place. Nice one.

How does message caching work when everyone is offline? What kind of rules?

Does it work like Reticulum?

Most people will never own a UTXO directly. Most will spend their entire lives receiving bitcoin directly in lightning or other layers. Some people call that a failure of layer 1, but that's just how systems scale. Even fiat.

Maybe that custodial services can be set up by anyone?

Forget regulations, setting up a payment transaction service in fiat land requires a ton of infrastructure.

With bitcoin/lightning, anyone with AI can get something set up overnight with zero external requirements. They don't even need to be on the same hemisphere as their customers.

This creates competition. Competition leads to benefits for the customers.

If competition somehow is captured or fails to build critical mass, the window opens for more decentralized options/innovations to build (like Zeus's on-device node, cashu, etc).

Taxes will be evaded via peer to peer transactions. The incentive to do so will only grow. And code is now cheap/essentially free to produce.

The state will still get theirs. It'll end up being more at the infrastructure and trading level. Think VATs.

But they will have lost the ability to control local economies, assuming adoption. THAT is enough to shift everything.

I'm not sure anyone is arguing that a business can't profit off of a nostr client, or even mine users data.

I think the issue is that this wasn't clearly disclosed, and people are likely using it without this knowledge.

Open protocols are for everyone.

But there's nothing wrong with disclosure, either.

Yeah. And I believe the referral discount is for life, right?

Tell me about the $500 off deal - I thought I read that they will help to buy you out of a contract... is that what you mean?

Is it still being ran by one guy, or is there at least a team maintaining its utilities?

Also, just how many default packages deviate from the standard arch packages?

The term is "security".

Unless they attain an egriegous amount of money, they will not find it in fiat.

Yep.

The lack of info they gather, the rotating device IDs, multiple numbets, etc etc.