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A couple weeks ago Grok began to not answer any questions solicited via X from English speaking accounts. A week after copious complaints from Monero bros on the site, this seemed to get fixed. nostr:nevent1qqs8ktyfn9ehs9afhnr6mx070qpf69nhcdka9fuj0mld5kcg3pt8ayqzypm89suamzkxrut22tup279la0d4lrrsh3d8yam9d26m5eamty84sqcyqqqqqqgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqgkwaehxw309aux6u3ww4ek2mn0wd68ytn0wfnszrmhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekk7mgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdu5zrz8w Now common bits of XMR infrastructure are being flagged as malicious links. It is intensely obvious that some employee at Twitter is aiming to suppress discussion and usage of Monero. Attached is an example screenshot of xmrpay, which is a checkout widget for Monero. This is the problem with centralized social media services and why I consider it a form of dry snitching to willingly use them. You are giving up massive numbers of levers that the intelligence services and private third parties have to pull to influence the social graph. Whatever they want to suppress is going to be subject to daily and continual small sabotages even if it isn’t outright banned and blocked. If you use Twitter you are essentially a de facto federal snitch, even if you never filed a report with your country’s security services. You are giving the vested powers far more powers through putting your social graph on the Twitter and Facebook than if you go and start informing on people directly. https://i.imgur.com/ehl6YRC.jpeg

"If you're going to get in trouble, then make it grand. If you burn a house down, you will be a felon. If you burn a nation down, you will be an architect of history.” — 태존비록 62

The bug is in the Mk3, Mk4, Mk5, and Q. You need more compute to for the latter models, but they all have the issue. Obviously dice rolling sidesteps the issue. The worst issues of Ledger were completely avoidable (don’t give them your address or email lol). Regardless, obviously the Trezor is the best wallet now. And the Cold Card thing is a complete joke piece of trash shilled by influencers for CPA bux. Nobody audited this code. Whatever you think of Ledger, they do have external auditors. The way it doesn’t have enough entropy on key generation would have been really, insanely obvious to any auditor.

cold cards have bad entropy on key generation. Maxis supported them endlessly because they are BITCOIN ONLY!!!! And have a shill social media presence and are probably paying influencers for support. Tons of people who bought a cold card got their bitcoin stolen LOL, guess they should use the shitcoiner stuff next time huh

Monero supply is 100% auditable with rangeproofs, which Bitcoin could adopt. It is only ZCash, a shitcoin controlled by a single Mossad tranny, that has had present-day inflation bugs and has no means to verify supply An attempt to make a currency that is not fungible is an abject failure. Why atomic swap to Monero for use as a fungible currency? That only makes your Bitcoin not fungible. Why go back to Bitcoin at that point? “Store of value”? Why not store value in Monero instead?

I was forced for many years to use Monero in daily business when I would have much rather been using Bitcoin because is has not been fungible for me, and its lack thereof has interfered in my business and life. There were many opportunities for Bitcoiners to demand Core actually address the issues that prevent the daily use of Bitcoin as money by those of us that don’t have bank accounts. They have repeatedly rejected this to instead pretend some shithole village in Latin America has adopted daily use of the Lightning Network. They, of course, have not, they simply pretended to do so for long enough that they can get free handouts of Bitcoin from drooling libertarians which they have since sold. All so that the startup grifters who pay their crypto influencer tard wranglers can convince gullible venture capitalists that a handful of retarded third worlders in favelas doing a couple custodial LN transactions is a bullish sign for Bitcoin. Meanwhile, the chart tells the real story. Bitcoin is losing steam as a speculative asset. This is potentially the final cycle. The last chance for Bitcoiners to transmute the massive influx of institutional capital we saw from 2021-2025 into a product that actually has real utility and serves the needs of people who want to use blockchains as their main financial ledger. The last bull run was the most pathetic cycle yet, 69k to 126k top to top. There’s been zero consideration among Bitcoiners that faith in Bitcoin’s “inevitability” has been poisonous to actual adoption, and that Bitcoin is potentially poised to permanently settle at a major loss when the lack of an additional significant ATH refutes the power log scale delusion. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Some people at the top of Bitcoin do realize that the foundational market opportunities that were missed represent existential threats to the future of Bitcoin, which is why so much accommodation was given to NFTs via Ordinals (to a complete failure, ord.io just shut down last month) and now Citrea, which is bringing EVM compatibility to Bitcoin. The problem is that these are settled markets with winners already chosen. Bitcoin is not going to be a clearinghouse for NFTs or smart contracts. Other chains that decided to implement useful features in a timely manner already won those games, and Ord’s failure shows that Bitcoin’s historical significance is not enough to attract participants when you show up many years too late. Bitcoin has to be money, not only because it was the original vision of Satoshi, but because Bitcoiners have rejected the opportunity for the blockchain to be used for any other application in a timely manner. Every real world use of blockchain has gone to other chains, because idiotic Bitcoiners turned their nose up and sneered about “monkey jpegs” as other blockchains were garnering actual users and creating sustainably valuable fee economies. Just as it was too late for Ordinals to succeed in a settled NFT market, Citrea’s attempt to create an EVM contract market via Bitcoin is not realistic after so many entrenched alternatives. Every business I have seen that uses Monero and Bitcoin always sees more Monero usage. People actually want to use Monero as currency. Fungibility is the primary concern of people who actually use blockchains for their daily finances. I don’t have a bank account, and I can tell you that it is my primary concern. I am using Monero because it is fungible, and I am not using Bitcoin because it makes it impossible to run a stable business. People that tell you Bitcoin is better as money aren’t even capable of being qualified to make this statement, because they always still have bank and investment accounts. They are still on the grid of the legacy financial system. Bitcoin has been relegated to something I simply hold, and I increasingly ask myself why I would continue holding it over something that I actually find useful. Other people much less ideologically aligned with Satoshi’s vision than me out there must be asking themselves the same thing. Bitcoiners have a final opportunity to make a push to become money, but they have to abandon chasing markets they have already lost. There is only one way to save Bitcoin, and that’s for Core to create a fungible currency using Monero’s model of Full Chain Membership Proofs. I truly love Bitcoin, and I wish I could be using it on a day to day basis. But Core has consistently rejected the implementation of any feature that could make Bitcoin useful as money in a timely manner, while there is still money to be made and viable businesses to be integrated with Bitcoin. They have historically rejected any opportunity to salvage this situation. I believe we approach the last window for Bitcoin to become money, instead of a historical marvel in the development of blockchains. Grifting off the history of Nakamato consensus for so long while trying to shove “solutions” that the market has repeatedly rejected down people’s throats has not worked. It’s time for Bitcoiners to stop scamming venture capitalists and implement what the market actually has demonstrated it wants in a currency. https://i.imgur.com/Ttm25g7.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/E9haaYk.jpeg

>The woman, who says paedophile Jeffrey Epstein sent her to Britain in 2010 when she was **in her 20s**, is said to have spent a night with Andrew at Royal Lodge in Windsor before being given tea and a tour of Buckingham Palace. >'The authorities **did not care to do anything when Epstein was alive**, so their confidence is low,' he said. SHE WAS ONLY 24 YOU SICK FUCK https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15857725/Andrew-accuser-sex-Royal-Lodge-WONT-speak-British-police.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Real Linux/FBSD network admin in action rn (yes I smoke crack no I don’t have a problem) https://image.nostr.build/fb90090eee1ba5f37ffc7697b2aa5b0adf6ffbbe4614f832779ea0938ade483d.jpg

normal brain melted idiot on TikTok or X does not notice when things from other people are not showing up in their feed. Tons of people shadowbanned on Twitter never noticed — the only people that did are ones that paid close attention to analytics. Due to the decentralized nature of Nostr, there are no good analytics. If you are shadowbanned unless you are extremely attentive and have a lot of arbitrary search feeds, and extra accounts to follow your own content, you will have *no idea* that Primal’s feed is biased against you. Only web professionals will ever notice. Normal people will not notice. If Nostr is ever commonly successful, and has a billion people using it, that translates to businesses made and broken. To ideas subverted for political purposes with payouts from campaign funds. It means a lot of things. Just because you can take your nsec elsewhere doesn’t mean much. Normal people are not going to notice that the sky in the Skinner box is being manipulated.

they can and do shadowban a lot of content on Primal. Maybe you don’t think of shadowbanning as censorship. But any limitation of reach for people controls the social graph. That means they determine who will be a talking head on Nostr, who will be an influencer. Shadowbanning is absolutely censorship, when Primal does it, when Twitter does it. You might not think that it’s censorship because it isn’t outright blocked, but it is probabilistic and statistical censorship. “I can see it on Primal” is not an evidence of a lack of censorship on social media services. Twitter shadowbanned content for tens of millions of Trump supporters in the Biden era.

isn't that like saying that it's not censorship that Saudi Arabia is banning a blasphemous tract because you can access it via a VPN or Qatar hasn’t gotten around to banning it yet?

I'm going to defend myself at this point, in that is a perfectly fine paragraph size, and actually quite small, if you consider the historical style standards of the English language. Henry Fielding’s The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) contains single paragraphs that are four times that long. Check out the last and unfinished paragraph on this page of *Joseph Andrews* — that’s a big chungus. I really think people should write like the classics. Longer paragraphs, more passive voice. More periodic and complex sentences, often diluting the subject, verb, object pattern to which we are so accustomed. Frankly English now just sounds like trash. It used to be such a lark, meandering through a rococo smattering of words that painted such a wondrous scene of prose upon the vellum. https://image.nostr.build/0b2cff7dc8d9791212c6d2d6f17b85612daa327d8cd34aacb23db3b4e1877d86.jpg

Okay well look bro, I’m doing my best here. I was literally tortured until I was retarded by spending extended periods in solitary confinement, which causes brain damage so severe you can see it on a CT scan. I was falsely accused of crimes by the federal government for accessing a public web API in a way that a prosecutor didn’t like. Then I was tortured. Then I was banned from the banking system and financial exchanges in 2014, when I was trying to start a hedge fund. Then I was banned from Twitter in 2016. If I weren’t an early Bitcoiner I would be penniless and homeless because I have been so egregiously tortured and abused by the federal government that my brain no longer works. I can quantify it, I have a fucking *10 stone* difference in Go rank before and after prison. So if it seems like I have a difficult relationship with punctuation, you are probably right. But it is literally because I was tortured until I was retarded by the feds.

I agree that it is by far the best UX on Nostr, and I even said upthread that it would be my daily driver if it weren’t centralized. And that and also that it has the most people is exactly why it is absolutely dangerous for it to be so centralized. The largest client shouldn’t have the ability to subtly manipulate the reach/exposure of notes and identities without anyone being able to tell. That’s a capability that nobody should have, and sidesteps the entire point of Nostr.

yes, he's been a good poster in other threads I’ve seen him. I have no fucking idea why people get so defensive over Primal. Why wouldn’t people encourage them to decentralized? It would be good for Primal (doesn’t make them a future legal and intelligence target) and good for the Nostr ecosystem (preserves decentralization).

At this point you have to start asking — who the hell are Primal’s investors? Who is really calling the shots? Who is on its board? Max Webster of Hivemind Ventures, for example, comes basically out of nowhere. He had an international solar energy (potentially a literal glownigger) company funded by Max Levchin, which just inches very closely to the surveillance economy and Peter Thiel’s Palantir. Then he was at Version One, a VC firm which was run by an a16z board member. I’m not trying to personalize this, but I’ve never seen anything so ridiculously shilled on Nostr as this “Primal is decentralized” narrative. It makes no sense that it is pushed so aggressively and defended so hard. Do so many random small accounts have that much brand loyalty to one of many Nostr clients? Why wouldn’t they want it to be more, not less decentralized? Why would they be demanding that Primal be able to censor people. It makes way more sense that this is a paid PR strategy.

You don’t understand that Primal is already curating its algorithmic feed. That’s a form of editorialization and censorship. You aren’t checking the entire Nostr social graph — you are only checking specific posts. Even a tiny smidgeon of statistical bias can completely change the social graph. Normal people are not using 4 Nostr clients, and you are only checking for *your* posts. This means you would only notice censorship both if it were happening to you and only if Primal censored the posts to the author as well. Obviously, that’s never how it works. Shadowbanning is the absolute inverse. You don’t get any notification that you’re banned, but your reach is limited beyond the capacity of a normal person to demonstrate how, and sometimes isn’t even noticed by the author.

“It is open source and you can run your own” does not make it not censorious — Mastodon is open source and you can run your own, and it is a hotbed of censorship. “Just run your own social media service!” is the exact echo of the most censorious people on earth. Most clients outside Primal have multiple relays by default, most or all of which they do not control. This includes Amethyst, Damus, Wisp, etc. If chooses Damus to block me on their relay, most people are still going to see my content because I am publishing to the other relays. Also most people can, via the relay hints provided by nevents when you quote a post, fetch my content from relays I post to even if you do not directly follow me or subscribe to my relay. If Primus blocks me from their caching server’s algorithmic feed, then I am silently erased and you will never see my content again. The only way this is different from Twitter is because people can take their nsecs elsewhere, but they provide no notice to users or opportunity for transparency as to what content they have removed. It is not just “caching the content from the relay” btw, it is selecting who gets seen at all in an editorialized fashion. And they have been caught not only censoring likes, but censoring entirely the display of basic post content in their algorithmic relay feed. nostr:nevent1qqsr4fgq3yuk744klgawevcezqx39vdywxthmvsgj8ds3g7mxupwdpczypakv2nuzxvdjthd99j7sj88hzvser4yvsxx2f4h42hkze92f3du2qcyqqqqqqgxck22r

Primal has a known track record of censoring individuals from their algorithmic feed from their caching server. I suggest you use any client but Primal. The UI is well done and if it were built according to principles of decentralization and freedom it would definitely be my daily driver. But I think trading liberty and the future of Nostr’s decentralization for convenience is a devil’s bargain. Use any client but Primal.

> but discoverability of “unpopular” content is slower Sure, but a social pinning model and IPFS peer graph makes this irrelevant. We’re not talking about an ancient file. We’re talking about a message that I *just posted* that is being ostensibly served by my followers. Your first IPFS node to check could be one I offer via the same tor onion as my relay. And I’m sure to have it, it’s my file. An easy place to query for a hash that is not me, in this instance, would be my followers, who are, in this hypothetical, pinning my content. You don’t need to search the entire IFPS network. Regardless, this is a side channel. It doesn’t have to be a silver bullet! It just has to make my content more available than it already is, and reduce immediate stress during peak hours upon public relays and media servers.