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Work in progress, very complex, lots of reinvention
Hopefully will be some good bits that can be cherry picked from it in time
They would benefit from using nostr which already works and is growing, but they can do so in a few years time
Censorship resistance is not the same thing as free speech - those are quite different concepts. Free speech doesn't really apply on Stacker News.
For censorship resistance on SN, there are couple things that could be done:
- Decentralize, e.g.
- allow running instance of SN on your own machine/domain (e.g. imagine this could be app on Umbrel)
- run a mirror on another domain hosted in a different country (e.g. Switzerland or Iceland)
- provide API and allow creation of standalone apps
- Add a Warrant Canary on SN
- Ideally with checkmarks for all countries (so when a warrant comes from a specific country, the checkmark would expire)
- Add onion address for SN
- Allow expiring content (could be similar to 4chan, that's how it gets around censorship...)
- Block reading until users puts in some sats (i.e. censorship resistance by obscurity)
- Allow users marking inappropriate content/spam (after defining such content)
- Provide all SN content over RSS and as data dumps (and host mirrors for the data dumps, or put on torrents)
- Create a backup git repo, e.g. on gitlab
- Create connections with stackers outside of Stacker News to have alternative communication channels
- Start hashing content and provide ways for individuals to check whether content has been modified
@k00b fwiw
The new anon posting seems to lead to a bunch of 21 and 100 sat payments routed through my lightning node. Nice to see!
Still chipping through Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell, but also reading The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver as part of a bitcoiner book club
KYC specifically refers to government ID requirements, not phone number verification. (But sadly many countries require government ID to buy even a prepaid sim card with cash.)
https://silent.link is good for KYC-free mobile data with global roaming, pay with Bitcoin. You would need a phone that supports e-sims.
https://jmp.chat is good for VOIP and SMS. It works with an XMPP client and accepts Bitcoin. However some websites may reject VOIP numbers for SMS verification.
https://smspva.com and https://juicysms.com/ are good options for anonymous SMS verification for Bitcoin. The numbers work in most cases, and if the number is rejected or you don't receive the SMS, you don't need to pay and can request a new number or try a different country. SMSPVA may re-use numbers, so make sure to set a password or PIN for your Signal or Telegram account (so that no one can login to it or re-register your number).
https://sms24.me, https://quackr.io and https://onlinesim.ru offer free SMS verification. These numbers are often already used for popular services (Gmail, Telegram, Discord, etc.) but may work for a less popular service.
The most interesting thing about the idea, to me, is the coupling of a token -- in the form of a crypto token -- to a shared endeavor, like one of the original joint stock companies. The token gets value by shared belief of those within the given network state, as a kind of localized money, an abstraction of the value redeemable in that community for services within and to that community, much like company script in the 19th century, or private money. George Selgin wrote a very interesting book about this latter.
It's hard to imagine a bitcoin version, since the vocal bitcoiners are so opposed to other kinds of tokenized money-like things. But you can nonetheless imagine a network state whose tokens exist alongside 'real' money (which is bitcoin, in this case) that serve as a bridge to the outside world. You can't just throw out the token and keep the rest of Balaji's idea -- the token, as an coordination construct that has power within the domain of the given network state -- plays a key role. You could think of it as a more active kind of equity, I suppose.
Just finishing my training before my first full marathon!
Already have a couple of videos in the pipeline to publish in my Bitcoin Youtube channel.
Quite some things, but the short answer would be: better understanding my current situation and plan for the next moves in life ;)
More specifically:
- Finish reading the Bitcoin Standard: only ~50 pages to go! Super-interesting educational resource, I will definitely use some of its examples where orangepilling others.
- Making a high-over financial plan for the next 5 years. I'm seriously considering to buy a small apartment with my girlfriend, so I want to know how the down payment and mortgage will affect my current savings/investments plan.
- Collecting educational material and preparing for a leadership course that I enrolled in, starting from next month. I se this as a nice opportunity to further develop my career, fingers crossed ;)
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