Building the Atomic Economy at @synonym_to.
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You know how they tried to kill torrents and totally failed?
Imagine if we built everything that way.
That's what we do at @Synonym_to.
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Bitcoin is a unique invention. It separates property rights from state enforcement.
For the first time, anyone can own valuable property without state permission and without state capture.
Why would you trust that to a state controlled exchange?
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It's not a refutation. You've just shifted the object from the property to the person.
Of course the state can imprison or kill me. Bitcoin does not abolish coercion.
But coercing or killing me does not, by itself, transfer control of the bitcoin. To dispossess me of that asset, the attacker must obtain the relevant secret or induce a valid transfer.
That additional dependency is the point.
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That's over-reliance on unverified hardware in the first instance and compelled disclosure in the second.
Nothing here says Bitcoin enables super-powers in the meat-space. It does say, absent disclosure, one cannot be dispossessed of their bitcoin by force.
E.g., one can shoot me in the head and take my things. One must get me to reveal a secret before they shoot me in the head to take my bitcoins.
The latter affords far more optionality, especially if one takes measures in anticipation.
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Do you not see how we have refuted your original claim? Killing or imprisoning you are also forms of dispossession. The state does not need to also steal from you to win, it can just kill you. For most people, that is worse than revealing a secret. Bitcoin does not fix violence, nor does it reduce the state, because it does not scale.
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Correct again. The state can attempt (and likely succeed) to compel disclosure.
But they cannot dispossess me of that property without disclosure. They can dispossess the gold even after they put me in a wood chipper.
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Correct. Most "rights" depend, ultimately, on institutional recognition and enforcement.
Bitcoin gives users the ability to exclude others from valuable property (bitcoins), including the state.
Call it a "right" of exclusion or the power of exclusion, it matters not. The effect is the principle.
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Being mad at your ai is a good way to highlight whether your reactions are proactive or vengeful.
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Bitcoin instantiates a non-sovereign granted right of exclusion to valuable property.
It is secured by code, rather than force, unlike every other property right.
How, and with whom you may exchange it, is a derivative of that right.
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I can't parse that first sentence. A right is something that is enforced, typically by others, in a legal context, or by yourself, where others will allow your actions if they witness them. It always requires force, hence "enforce." The force is provided by the users when they choose whether to accept your bitcoin when try to pay them with it. Settlement is determined by the users, not the blockchain. The blockchain is evidence, the hash difficulty and block depth are confidence in that evidence.
@grok please try to explain to him the category errors and realities here.
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Ive slowly came to realization that more and more people hate AI. Artists hate it, programmers hate it, mathematicians hate it, and everyone thats currently impacted in business hate it. It used to be small number of people, but its quite a lot now.
I've been truely in a bubble because for past one year ive just met my peers in AI field / my workplace and my close friend, and noone else outside my existing network group.
Ai researcher is slowly becoming most hated occupation and I dont know what / how to feel about it. We now have some big obligation to 'make it all work', i.e., permanent upperclass for everyone, or get hanged.
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Cryptogymnastics that solve no real problem afaict
It is another overly specific and complex credit system, only using bitcoin for ordering.
No bitcoin scale gained, bitcoin does not know glass credits exist.
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Normies can use weird key-based apps now!
This is cool tech that uses a Google email for login while bridging your keypair.
The user can still convert to a key anytime, and Google only sees an encrypted blob.
github.com/pubky/pubky-passp…
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USDT is coming to Bitcoin and people are celebrating.
You're cheering for the dollar to colonize the hardest money ever created.
Bitcoin wasn't built to carry your fiat. It was built to end it.
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USDT started on Bitcoin. It became popular elsewhere due to speed and fees. If it is "coming back" it will face the same challenge again.
The point is, that thinking tether/usd can "colonize" Bitcoin is a category error, so I am not sure what the fear is exactly.
Credit is an efficiency of trust, but putting that on a decentralized blockchain makes it too expensive to scale.
Bitcoin fundamentally cannot out-scale credit so being mad at that relationship is an emotional choice, not a form of rebellion.
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Hey @BitcoinErrorLog do you have plans to make @bitkitwallet reproducible from sources? It's one of the best wallets, so it should be, right?
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It's certainly possible, but not a priority right now.
We have other monumental work to finish before optimizing our trustability, which is, so far, proven through years of operation, as is most important.
We fixed a lot of things with our tech, and a lot of people are sleeping on this, so we must demonstrate that system ourselves first.
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The best flash cards app is built on Pubky!
medium.com/pubky/loopky-flas…
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