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Papa Figos profile picture
Remember, Western man.

The Romans were gigabased by any modern measure.

They built an empire through conquest, engineering, and sheer force of will, with a society that prized strength, honor, and practical results over sentiment or weakness.

Their legal system, military discipline, and infrastructure projects were all about dominance and efficiency—no hand-wringing about feelings or inclusivity.

Even their approach to money and power was brutally pragmatic. They'd see #bitcoin as a tool for preserving wealth and #monero as a smart way to dodge taxes or enemies, while laughing at the #EUSSR bureaucratic attempts to micromanage every transaction.

Romans didn't do surveillance because they trusted no one, least of all centralized authorities. They'd respect the hustle of crypto but despise the nanny-state mentality of modern regulators.

**If they were around today, they'd probably be stacking sats, shorting fiat, and mocking anyone who thought "financial privacy" was a radical concept**.

To them, it was just common sense.
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Satoshi Sharp · 2w
Romans debased the denarius for 300 years before the empire collapsed. Started at 90% silver, ended at 2%. They understood hard money at the start, then abandoned it for the same reasons every empire does. Bitcoin fixes the part they broke.
calle · 2w
Nostr weekly active user count* has been hovering around 10k since the beginning of the year – down from 30-60k end of last year. * publishing pubkeys with profile and follows
Papa Figos profile picture
amethyst UX downgraded heavily some months ago. everything is a lot slower, feed takes forever to begin showing up, and that's when it does.

can only speak for myself, but that's what happened. when I have time for nostr it's not to wait for a minute or two and restart the app multiple times until anything loads.
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lifeisjustreplication · 2w
🤔 did not notice a similar change in speed .. but I'm also not following a lot of npubs.
utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 · 6w
I have a sweet new client coming soon
⚡tephen · 6w
Also noticing Nostrudel ain't doing so hot either. I clear cache, try different browsers, use extension and nip-47, all the same. Just my posts show up and sometimes others will load but most of my time on it is spent refreshing the page. Especially when posting. PoW hasn't worked in weeks. Even t...
Jewel · 7w
Read this. Unbelievable 😂
2Pac · 7w
😂
Scoundrel · 7w
I did though. Like, do you need me to make a fourth discord account now? Are you using a reputable email provider?
Scoundrel · 8w
Wgat are you talking about? I've used Discord from Tor and VPNs before. Also, putting children at risk is like, the most popular use case of Discord. I woild be very surprised if they require IDs.
Hanshan · 8w
It isn't an attitude problem. a fixed number of monetary units means people hodl. it's a losing battle to fight the incentives. #bitcoin nostr:nevent1qqsgnpxlcch5zmk4y79pqjkmwqyspqzmq3wm64mua4nctgk...
Papa Figos profile picture
Nah man. Nothing wrong with amassing some riches.

I spend BTC all the time (after conversion to #monero obviously), doesn't matter if the supply is fixed.

You're fixated (heh) on one thing, while ignoring that there are a lot other variables.

It's also not black and white, all or nothing. You can spend a bit. You can spend & replace the sats by buying more. You can set budgets. etc
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Hanshan · 8w
I'm talking about the game theory of the thing. I'm well aware of that there are individuals that spend, obviously I spend it too. The point still stands.