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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ZezzebbulTheMysterious 20 Nov \ on: Razzlekhan, crypto’s most embarrassing rapper, is going to prison news
Ya know, I have to respect that Raz had the guts to make multiple music videos.
In retrospect, it’s absurd. But I don’t have the guts to put rap on YT. And neither do you dear reader.
Crime is bad. We have always pondered what happened to the bfx theft stash. Turns out it was sitting in Dutches spreadsheets.
Is this going to be form part of the U.S. strategic Bitcoin Reserve?
If so, Raz and Dutch will be remembered forever for their contribution to the American Economy.
Life is far more interesting than any movie.
Best of luck with the music career raz.
It never was important, unless one required it to keep the peasants in line. Nothing like inventing stories of eternal doom to force compliance from the ignorant masses.
Religion, since time immemorial, has been about Control, Suppression and Submission. More folks are realizing this generation to generation but it is a very slow enlightenment. It may take us another century or more to shed our legacy superstitions.
Why so many anti-authoritarian types are so quick to fall into such traps remains a mystery.
Maybe. But in this case we can’t entirely blame fiat. The problem is fraud. In this case they were depositing large checks and immediately withdrawing cash before they cleared. Checks represent settled funds in another account, it’s a simple transfer, settling over time. No credit or money was created, just fungible dollars moving through the system.
It’s analogous to replacing an unconfirmed spend or passing an already claimed Ecash voucher. If you don’t verify, (or wait in the case of mainnet), you can get burned if you redeem (eg: settle in LN sats). We may see “infinite sat glitches” as people find fraudulent ways to claim unsettled Bitcoin from the system(s) in the future too.
If your micro nation sues its host parent nation for 11 billion dollars there is going to be some bad blood.
Micronations are an interesting phenomena but they will always be guests to a parent state, unless we can “print more land”.
Obviously possible, but not for a few cycles yet. New island allotments to start at 1M sat!
Great write up Darth. I hope to not need it, but if I do, i am glad it exists.
You are an asset as rare as Bitcoin itself to the Empire, Sith Lord.
Post Modernism is what gave us Bitcoin. Cypherpunk is essentially a post modern movement as a reaction to modern Corporatism and 'late stage capitalism'. Remember that Bitcoin was created and tagged forever in a response to the failure of Global Monetary Leadership in 2008.
Denial of universal truth is the only way forward to freedom -- there is no universal truth, and anyone trying to push such an idea has an agenda, and wishes the world to comply to this one true vision of the universe. It is the enforcement of a single universal truth (generally, western religion) that has eroded liberties over the centuries, and only in the last 50-100 years have we regained some liberties stolen from us by the religious zealots.
While I agree that insistence of power as the determiner of truth is a horribly authoritarian concept that will strip liberties from the masses, the non-powerful. Something like the Billionaire class being in control of all the town squares of discourse is horrendous for our society and civilization direction toward liberty.
Embrace the post modern ambiguity of our age. There is no reason the individual needs to fill some societal definition from another era, anything else is delegating ones liberties to another persons dated ideals.
Right back at ya! I’m not trying in insult ya. We have a problem here tho. So, back on topic.
Ok, few issue you may not have considered are:
Non persistent note flag is implementation specific; if my modded relay is set to snoop all your traffic and record traffic - Intractable problem.
Open source and voluntary nature of nostr relays.
Not an issue with tor, due to telescoping (eg: intermediate nodes on path do not see routing metadata). Even if we encrypt the full payload, the npub is in the clear. This is not the case for Tor.
Routing metadata - tor vs relay; I appreciate that there similarities with peer routers and guard/tor nodes - however the telescoping behavior of Tor circuits leaks much less metadata. I’m already assuming I’m capturing all the notes, and now I’m snooping on the addresses too.
The behavior of the intermediate nodes on the path is a known quantity too vs implementation specific behavior in nostr relays.
Other have alluded to latency, which apparently I know nothing about. There is a publish, relay, database cache, and fetch cycle associated with each note which does not exists over a TCP/IP or Tor circuit.
It’s not to say you can’t design a low latency solution using the protocol, but do not ignore this trade off. I would estimate the order of latency for note propagation vs single LN message over Tor to be ~10x. Happy to be proven wrong here. It’s comparing a broadcast application layer protocol (in JSON no less) [nostr] to a low level network routing protocol [tcp/ip or tor circuit]. Of course it’s going to add trade offs.
Thank you for explaining your words. Derailing what? Bro, you need to be nicer. Your argument holds no water while you act like an ass.
I appreciate that you like the LN over nostr pattern. You are welcome to build on it.
If you wish to have a real technical debate, I’m open. So far you’re just rude. I appreciate that you generally win an argument not on tech merit but via being the rudest party. That fine. I don’t, and I’m not offended.
You are comparing non equivalent things here.
If you wish to have an actual technical discussion on the tradeoffs of caching, latency and onion routing vs broadcast over the public internet, I can share my position and beliefs. But otherwise you are mixing a lot of ideas and words here that don’t make sense.
Tor is “chaining” without “optimization”? Nostr is “singular”? Routing is separate than the “base communication layer”? Lightning Graph is a “Cache”?
Keep going bro
Fair enough. What’s nostr running over then? My point is wrapping LN packets in notes is just extra wrapping with additional negative trade offs that still uses TCP/IP over public internet.
My point is this is putting it at the wrong layer. You can always stuff more layers in the stack but it does not necessarily make a better or more resilient product.
You would get better responses if you were respectful. If you think I have “reversed facts”. let’s explore this rather then saying I’m wrong.
I fail to see how picking a relay, that fact no onions are required (?) and native web data delivery (whatever that is) has any effect on latency.
Nostr is a relay based protocol. It has clients and relays. How is this peer to peer? How do I address another node and have it route?
It’s not a routing protocol. It’s a caching messaging protocol.
Tor solves the NAT traversal issue for running nodes at home with long lived network identifiers, and also provides IP privacy.
I don’t understand why it would be desirable to use nostr as the transport for Lightning, it has so many drawbacks including latency far beyond what Tor is going to deliver.
You don’t need to record all the p2p traffic via notes. It’s only meaningful to the peers involved, and better to just transmit over the internet.
Nostr is a good, interesting protocol for broadcast style messaging. It’s not a general peer to peer networking protocol, nor is it trying to be this.
It’s fun to demonstrate like running doom on everything, but it is not practical.
Anyone can print more tokens, any time. Banks already have relationships with Visa, so they now can easily print shittokens on Ethereum blockchain all day and night. Visa could even build in LP trade contracts and transfer tax and denylists to these contracts like the Crypto boys last cycle.
There are only 2.1 Ps (petasat, or quadrillion satoshi) chasing an infinite number of nonsense things. Allocate capital accordingly.
I liked the post Peter. I agree with many of your points.
You have got it, it is the division sewed by the political establishment that manifests the division we see today. Ideology is the easiest way to hide a person from the truth.
Please explain why caring about community health is statism. Peter’s position here is noncoersive and historically accurate.
He is saying don’t make a personal medical position be ideological. It’s exactly this ideologism ignoring fact that leads to negative health outcomes.
Social media sucks. Yes it’s probably a large part of the downfall of society.
Delete accounts and live a good life.
