fair- and if you pay 1sat/vB your tx will likely fall off the mempool
people want their tx in the blockspace, that’s why they pay for inclusion in a block :)
the real sin is the disrespect you show to bitcoin's blockspace by broadcasting a 1sat/vB transaction
low key surprised how quickly twitter is becoming a ghost town. i expected a more gradual transition then a sudden collapse.
Last year, you probably learned a lot about Ukraine, Taiwan, and Iran. Those countries remain important, but it’s imperative that you learn about these flashpoints too: Serbia-Kosovo, Armenia-Azerbaijan, the Solomon Islands, and Haiti. I introduce each here: https://read.pourteaux.xyz/p/flashpoints
Farcaster and Nostr both want to address this issue, and approach it from different design philosophies and with different tradeoffs.
Those who want a moderated social media experience, and those who want censorship resistance aren't at odds at all. In fact, their goals are perfectly aligned. They are noticing different real failures in the way social works today.
We urgently need a native social layer for the internet. It must be a protocol, it can't be a company. I wrote about the different ways that Nostr and Farcaster are trying to achieve this. h/t to @fiatjaf @maciek https://pourteaux.substack.com/p/the-moral-imperative-of-a-distributed
Basically your political alignment isn't determined by social and economic axes anymore. These questions are pre-empted by a bigger issue: are such policy questions even in the domain of current institutions or do we need to burn it all down and start over?
You can take the quiz yourself. It's linked in the post. Interested to see your results!
The old left vs right political compass doesn't make sense anymore. There's an upstream issue that has been forced into focus: the role of institutions. So I made a replacement that clarifies a lot of the disorienting realignments of the last few years. https://pourteaux.substack.com/p/institutional-alignment