It's not surprising. Tech people are more likely to have heard about bitcoin early, but they dismissed it and keep invested in dismissing it. It takes humility to admit that you were wrong.
SwingingKoala
joined 1 year ago
Been using lightning for a few months, it's awesome, let's clear up some misconceptions and old info
Maybe I just don’t get banned enough
You may also interact with countless bots without ever knowing, because creating fake identities is free.
I really don’t care about loosing my identity
Fair, some people value their identity.
how decentralized is it when your identity is “centralized” in your key pair?
For average people nothing changes, the app can hold their key for them and even offer email recovery.
On top of that so many people regularly change their display names on social media for vanity and expression purposes that I can’t reliably use them anyways for recognizing accounts.
That's something having signatures and a web of trust solves.
Besides, you fail to see another problem: Whichever centralized, federated site you use can manipulate anything you read and publish.
Anyway, if you don't see a need for tools like nostr you don't need them.
Somebody takes out the lemmy.world server and your identity is gone. So decentralized, lol.
but I’ve also been suspicious of the reported inflation numbers
Check the purchasing power of your money against hard assets like gold, stocks, land, housing, etc. "Inflation" numbers we get are CPI numbers, and those are intentionally doctored to show lower "inflation" values. For starters, they assume "stable" prices that don't change are normal. That is a lie as prices should be going down all the time due to improved production processes. Once you realize inflation is underreported and that wages don't even keep up with that..
The future is decentralized, not federated. That's why I'm on nostr, even if it doesn't deliver yet.
I'm not drinking with you today.
Do you have any idea what brought you back to drinking after stopping, and if you could do something other than drinking when that happens?
I have a problem. I accept it.
It's good to see you here, and that you've taken the first step. Good luck!
Infinite money glitch? Schulden machen, Zinsen zahlen, und mit Aktien immer noch Gewinn machen.
Ah yes, the world was so much better when misinformation and propaganda could only be spread by well funded entities!