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This book looks nice, and free!

It was amazing 5-6 years. I'm so proud of what we accomplished with the @gwei.cz collective. We brought people together, created unforgettable events like ETHBrno and UTXO, and shared the vision of open finance and freedom with a massive audience. Absolutely worth it!

Feeling conflicted today. It’s amazing to see Ethereum celebrate its 10-year milestone and reflect on how far it's come. On the other hand, I'm deeply saddened to have to cancel @ethbrno.cz for good and finally close this chapter of trying to foster the Czech community. 😥

happy 10th birthday to ethereum

That's why I wrote glimpse :) Capital x efficiency will take time to develop, Polymarket is just a toy.

Polymarket market: Megaquake before August?

$100 two days ago is $14k today. This is a glimpse into the future of insurance.

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If you're mad about Trump, Bitcoin, *and* AI I don't understand how you are surviving right now.

god i love coffeescript

For me playing with CoffeeScript years ago was a great intro to transpiling and inspiration for how JavaScript syntax could evolve.

I think I wasn't clear - I actually don't think immutability is important for social networks (maybe even prefer deletability). When I said ATProto is "more robust", I only meant for verifiability, not immutability.

You can already get it today if you run your own PDS. Nostr allows external verification of individual events, but ATProto's design will allow verification of complete data integrity - something Nostr can't provide even in theory.

With ATProto/Bluesky, you can (theoretically) cryptographically verify the integrity of your data through merkle trees and signed commits. Right now most users keys are in the PDS, but i hope this is a temporary implementation detail - and keys will move to clients eventually.

Calling the most widely used Bitcoin client malware is the ultimate expression of Bitcoin maximalism you can achieve. It's for the culture.

Vitor Pamplona vitorpamplona.com This idea that Nostr is "immutable and verifiable", as in being a single source of truth, is the biggest lie in Nostr. So many people misunderstand it. Yes, you can verify **individual events** by their signature... **if you have them**. That's a big if. Authors can delete these events at any time, and once they do, your client will also delete them from your local database. They can ship new versions of replaceable events, and that will make things disappear in your local DB too. If your Client was not active, it would have never seen some of the changes in the first place. Once that happens, you can't "verify" anything anymore. Nostr, as a database of events, is only "immutable and verifiable" if you have a special relay that can track and store all regular and replaceable events as they happen and reject all types of deletions at all times. There is no way around it. And that relay is a **trusted** entity, since there is no way to verify if that relay hasn't deleted anything it doesn't like. Events have never been "immutable". Events by themselves are only verifiable if you have them. A chain of events is not verifiable unless you secure the storage of the entire chain by yourself in real-time. Nostr doesn't do that for you automatically. Nostr is not a blockchain. Stop thinking it is one. It was specifically designed to NOT be one. It's not a problem to be solved.

Nostr is not "immutable and verifiable"

The lack of true, trustless verifiability is why I think Bluesky's approach with the PDS model is more robust.

Right. You're tackling the economic layer of the problem. But once that's solved, there's a deeper social layer: How do we build a society that's not just prosperous, but also soulful and connected?

Polycentric Coercive Law?

All non-coercive methods depend on social pressure and norms, which is probably not what we want.

infinite parallel societies pls

"The goal is a world that is simultaneously prosperous enough to support complex technology and division of labor, yet populated by individuals empowered to live simply, productively, and convivially with one another."

"The act of choosing interdependence with neighbors and kin over dependence on impersonal state or corporate institutions is seen as the ultimate realization of individual sovereignty."

"Its purpose is to create a foundation of material wealth, but its ethos must be consciously contained and prevented from colonizing the spheres of family, friendship, care, and mutual aid."

Voluntary Convivialism is a political and social philosophy that advocates for a stateless society where the principles of Austrian economics and absolute private property rights are used to create the conditions for voluntary, convivial, and human-scale communities to flourish. It seeks to synthesize the economic framework for radical individual liberty with a cultural vision of deep community connection.

"Voluntary Convivialism"

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The communitarian critic I have in mind is Ivan Illich. He argued that modern systems make us dependent on professionals for everything. His goal was a world where we are skilled and free enough to care for ourselves and our communities directly.

I agree crypto is the key, but I see it as fundamentally anti-Keynesian. Its purpose isn't to bridge those two worlds, but to finally give us the tools to build an Austrian/Illichian society, free from the central planners that Keynesianism requires.

Sure, it's technically viable. But question is how it's relevant when the most powerful "horse enthusiasts" can simply decide your sports car is "spam" and try to run you off the road (Bitcoin Knots).

The purpose of a ruthlessly efficient economy is to build a world where we can afford to be gracefully inefficient with each other.

I'm starting to think of this as "Voluntary Convivialism". It frames liberty not as an end in itself, but as the essential tool we need to voluntarily build back the meaningful, convivial life so many of us feel we've lost.

What if the Austrian economists and their harshest communitarian critics are both right?

Perhaps one side gives us the essential blueprint for a free and prosperous society, while the other gives us the vision for a meaningful life worth living.

Z mého pohledu je krypto laboratoř, kde se učíme nahrazovat státní monopol na důvěru. U čistého DeFi je tou zárukou kód. U reálných aktiv to můžou být nástroje jako reputace emitenta, soukromé pojištění, kolaterál atp. Cíl je ale stejný - funkční vymahatelnost bez státu.

Chápu. V zásadě se neshodneme na tom, jestli je právo a bezpečnost "přirozený monopol". Já věřím, že stejně jako v jiných sektorech, i tady by konkurence přinesla lepší služby než vnucený monopol. Ale je to debata na dlouho :)

Nejde spíš o princip vymahatelnosti práva? Ten může existovat i bez státu, na čistě soukromé a smluvní bázi, viz například reputační systémy nebo mezinárodní arbitráže.