Private property presupposes the moral right to that thing. It can only arise if the initiation of force is prohibited from society, which means there must be some mechanism to protect against the initiation of force. To be effective that mechanism must have a monopoly on the retaliatory use of force. What is that mechanism but government properly constituted and limited? Without this mechanism we are at the mercy of the mob with the most power. (See the American regulatory state or Gaza) Government is vital for civil society, but to fulfill the needed mechanism it must be properly limited to the courts, police and military, all run according to the rule of law.

“Bad for our minds,” I think there is something to this, especially for kids-always on their phone-never a chance to be left with their own thoughts-disconnected from their own life.

Meant to make this stand in its own not as a reply. Sorry for the confusion.

I am proposing a talk at TABConf2023 about Bitcoin’s place in US Commercial Law. The talk will center on the proposed revisions to the Uniform Commercial Code to accommodate Bitcoin. The UCC won’t call Bitcoin money but will give it the characteristic of money. Please look at all the proposed talks and consider upvoting those you find interesting (including mine :)). https://github.com/TABConf/2023.tabconf.com/issues/47

Similarly, one overestimates what can be done in a day and underestimates what can be done in a year.

Yes. With nostr it seems the default is annon and if you want to doxx yourself you can. Annon is essential. Being verified has a legitimate use case.

Yes. I think that means there will someday be a quality to the verification. That is [email protected] will be more meaningful and desirable than [email protected]. Kind of like a Good Housekeeping seal.

That is interesting. Are you saying the inclusion at some site @domain doesn’t do any real verification? If so, then it would seem that self verification via one’s own site (like GitHub pages) might be of better quality-especially if the GitHub account is well known.

It isn’t so much that the pubkey is linked to a social media account, but instead the pubkey key is linked to a user-friendly name-somewhat related to the format of a name@domain. Here the name is the user friendly aspect and the domain is what verified the link between the user friendly name and the pubkey. There is a nostr NIP compliant file at the domain containing the link between the user friendly name and the pubkey. Before sites will include your name pubkey combo on their domain, they want some verification who controls the pubkey. This is often done by posting your pub key on Twitter, presumably doing so shows you control both. If you do the name/pubkey link on you own site-one can see who controls that site. I think this is an accurate description. Definitely interested in someone has a better characterization.

The nostr verification is essentially linking your pubkey to a site that either verifies your identity somewhat (you control both the pubkey and Twitter) or doxxs you at least partially (by linking your pubkey to a site you control-like a GitHub pages. Is that a decent understanding of the NIP?

Hi Caitlin-we need to get you verified on here.