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The same house can sell for far more in New York City than in an Oklahoma cul-de-sac. It didn't change. The buyer's context did.
That simple example breaks the idea that value lives inside an asset. When people say an asset has "intrinsic value," they usually mean it has utility they recognize. Real estate provides shelter, gold has industrial uses, and a business can produce cash flow. None of those uses creates one objective value for every person in every place.
A discounted cash flow analysis doesn't uncover a permanent value hidden inside a stock. It estimates future cash flows under a set of assumptions. Change them, and the answer changes. The market can disagree anyway.
Every financial asset is a bet on future demand. Bitcoin is no exception. Its utility comes from an absolutely fixed supply, the ability to transfer value globally, and sovereign control through private keys without counterparty risk.
The useful question isn't whether bitcoin has intrinsic value. It's whether its utility fits the job you need an asset to do. Separate utility from market price, and you can compare bitcoin with stocks, gold, and real estate by the role each plays in your FIRE plan—not a label none can satisfy.
Read the full argument: https://firebtc.io/p/the-intrinsic-value-myth
Ik doe mee aan de Nostr-workshop! #goingtojail @npub128r…mwdu
Neuh.
Maar ik ben niet zappable denk ik meer
Ik doe mee aan de Nostr-workshop! #goingtojail @npub128r…mwdu
Ik doe mee aan de Nostr-workshop! #goingtojail @nprofile…srjm
Ready for @nprofile…h2m4
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GM
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We made it intentionally hard to do this in Wisp, BTW. Definitely use Primal for that. 😏
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still a bit of a work in progress, but i am out of time and have to rush towards to conference (could only vibe this at the last moment....token budgets amiright)
I made a workshop client!
- It has a slideshow (only Dutch version for now) for the introduction into Nostr.
- has like 60 something ''tasks'' people can perform on Nostr, from the basic things like posting to the ''other stuff'' niche things.
- the point is not so much for everyone to perform every task, but just have enough there so they can go around and learn a bunch of things to get familiar with Nostr.
- supposedly you get a badge if you complete a category of tasks, but who knows, not as if this is tested.
- You start a workshop session by just giving it a title; participants can then do a kind1 post of a text blurp they can get by scanning a QR code (the post just needs a npub reference to the workshop, and the hashtag of the particular session)
- the workshop app then tracks the progress of each participant and has this leaderboard and stuff.
- includes a pretty big index of all sorts of Nostr clients, and which one can be used for what task.
Only posting this so i have a way to fetch the link to the nsite when i arrive in Arnhem :P
https://npub1jnrsdqxyyegg7xz8tl6u5zv5lccex393dz28uekzmdjjs9fjw4ysfch4a4.nsite.lol
I bet this does wonders to dispel the myth that all AI companies are run by fascists.
GTFO, only losers are welcome here.
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Well that’s pretty fucking gay of you, LMAO.
Your top dog is the ringleader and you’re so brainwashed by his cult that you can’t even see it. Sad!
You made your bed, now lie in it.
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Sweet dreams. 🤡
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They have maybe 3 halfway-decent songs. And now I still have a whole fucking album I didn’t buy that Apple made me download, that I still haven’t been able to completely delete after twelve years.
Yes, we got the same deal we had 75 years ago, only more BIGLY.
He said he the U.S. would buy Greenland from Denmark. He lost that gamble, so they read him a bedtime story, and he believed he won.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv5xonFSC4c
I also seem to have misplaced my Ph.D.
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LOL, none of them have a functioning search.
WORD5 #715 3/6* (Hard Mode)
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Grok:
Nostr currently stands a greater chance of long-term survival than Pubky.
Why Nostr has the edge
• Existing network effects and longevity: Nostr has been live for roughly 5–6 years. It has accumulated millions of public keys over time, a large (if noisy) event history, hundreds of clients/apps, and a distributed set of relays. Even if “true” daily/weekly active human users are only in the tens of thousands to low hundreds of thousands (numbers vary widely by tracker and how spam/bots are filtered), that is still orders of magnitude larger than Pubky’s roughly 800 users as of mid-2026. Survival in decentralized protocols is heavily path-dependent—once a critical mass of keys, relays, and apps exists, it becomes very hard to extinguish.
• Architectural resilience: Nostr’s minimal design (signed events broadcast to any number of independent relays) is extremely antifragile. Anyone can run a relay; users can multi-home; there is no single homeserver or indexer that must stay online. Censorship or failure of individual components does not kill the network. Pubky’s model (PKARR/DHT + homeservers + optional indexers like Nexus) is more structured and potentially more coherent, but it still has more moving parts that need ongoing operation and adoption.
• Community and funding inertia: Nostr has deep roots in the Bitcoin/cypherpunk world, historical support (including from figures like Jack Dorsey), ongoing grants (e.g., OpenSats), and a broad set of independent developers. That distributed interest makes it harder for the protocol to simply fade if one team loses interest.
• Proven staying power: Despite well-documented problems (spam, fragmented UX, discovery issues, inconsistent client experiences), Nostr has not died. It continues to see development, new apps, and usage.
Pubky’s relative disadvantages for pure survival
Pubky is newer, more deliberately designed to address Nostr’s weaknesses (better identity resolution via PKARR/Mainline DHT, user-controlled homeservers as sources of truth, semantic graph/tagging, credible exit, etc.), and backed by a focused team at Synonym with resources. Its technical approach is more systematic. However:
• It is still in the very early bootstrap phase. With only hundreds of users, it has almost no network effects yet.
• Survival is more contingent on continued investment, successful onboarding, and reaching a self-sustaining user/developer base. Early-stage projects like this have high attrition rates even when the tech is solid.
• While the design aims for strong censorship resistance and portability, it has not yet been battle-tested at scale the way Nostr’s relay model has.
Caveats and nuance
“Survival” here means the protocol continuing to function with a meaningful user and developer base rather than fading into obscurity. It does not mean becoming mainstream or “winning” against centralized platforms (or each other).
• Nostr could still stagnate or slowly decline in active human usage while remaining technically alive (a common fate for niche protocols).
• Pubky could grow rapidly if its better UX, features (payments coordination, collections, graph tools), and positioning resonate, potentially overtaking Nostr in quality or specific use cases.
• The two are not strictly zero-sum. Some users and developers may use both, and ideas can cross-pollinate.
• External shocks (major platform crackdowns, regulatory pressure, cultural shifts toward sovereignty tools) could boost either or both.
Bottom line: Nostr’s head start, larger existing base, simpler and more redundant architecture, and distributed community give it the stronger survival odds today. Pubky is the more ambitious and structured redesign, but it still has to prove it can cross the cold-start chasm that has killed or stalled many previous decentralized social efforts. History favors the protocol that already has traction over the one that is still mostly potential.
I just asked Grok if Nostr stands a greater or lesser chance of survival than Pubky, and guess what it told me…
We are the antagonists now.
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Things are definitely going well in Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM20gM5WZow
Billing the client for the hours you’re playing World of Warcraft while waiting for your Claude session limit to reset.
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Imagine thinking that maintaining the same status quo we’ve had for the last 75 years is “winning.” 🤣
https://www.history.com/articles/1951-agreement-that-allows-us-military-presence-in-greenland
As is your right. But have you ever faked your own death? 😂
I spent way too much time staring at this album cover in my parents’ collection as a kid.
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Imma change mine to Dr. The Deleted 🖖 and see who notices.
Are any of us really here, though?
Or, be like @nprofile…3wq8 and build something worse with your VC money, then complain about Nostr and call everyone losers, then not deliver a product anyone wants to use, and then go back to Xitter and act like you deserve a prize.
The one that won’t give you Cyclospora. 🇬🇱
One of the fun quirks of Nostr is that you never have any real proof a user has actually left, even if their account says it’s been “deleted.” Some clients will ban npubs with a delete flag from using them again, but there’s a fairly reliable way to reverse that. And as long as the nsec isn’t lost, someone can just lurk.
For example, @npub1ll9…xszt isn’t really deleted, because the profile has no deletion event, and even though the last visible post is from over a month ago, the user just updated their kind 0 profile metadata less than two days ago.
What this user didn’t realize is that they only changed the "display_name" field to “Deleted“ and not the alternate "displayName" field that was left behind by another client, so it’s trivially easy figure out who it is.
We see you, friend, 😏
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If it’s the only place he kept his key, then he just locked himself out of his own identity forever, which is even dumber than ”deleting” it.
”Nice icebergs youse got there. Be a real shame if sumthin’ was to happen to ‘em.” — Don Trump Corleone
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I deleted mine the same day I was invited. 😂
He can brag about it to all 7 people on Pubeky now.
we all can, there is no escaping the swarm
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(don't expect me to convert things to mp3)
ooops .wav files are not supported. Ah well
Overmind
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