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I provided proof. With links.

Will you back up your claims that the Bitcoin crap that infests the app and its community is just a coincidence?

Do you genuinely believe that? Or do you just think that everybody here is gullible?

I have a hard time taking the "alliance" seriously when all three (mentioned) browsers are slightly different skins of Google Chromium.

But unsurprisingly, they are correct about their competitor this time.

I asked you for counterevidence to the claims, not apologism. The fact they left the smoking gun on their own website is enough for me, but clearly you have an agenda of your own.

Unless you expect everyone here to believe that the protocol, the clients, the funders, and the creators all just coincidentally love Bitcoin, you've got a lot of explaining to do.

Can you provide any counterevidence to the claims?

To quote them: "Nostr was kickstarted mostly by a community of Bitcoiners, so it has disproportionately attracted the attention of Bitcoiners."

The "optional" Bitcoin payment system is baked into the biggest Nostr clients.

The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it. Today, basically nobody uses it except for cryptocurrency shills. (I don't say that as merely an insult. The people on it constantly post about cryptocurrency or use cryptocurrency-specific in-jokes.)

Where's all those Christians who believe digital ID is the mark of the Antichrist?

It's always interesting seeing the line people will draw between what they see as art vs product. I would be disappointed by anyone who tricked me into listening to theft-generated music, whether people consider it legitimate art or not

Alex Karp thinks people only care about one kind of surveillance. And he thinks he will alleviate our fears if he gives us a pinky promise not to surveil us in that one way.

That way is cheating.

He later brings this up again, saying that most surveillance technology isn’t determining, “Am I shagging too many people on the side and lying to my partner?” Your guess is as good as any as to what that’s all about.

Well, thanks for clearing that up, Alex. That was indeed my sole concern.

(The rest of the article is full of indecipherable quotes from Alex, which demonstrates you don't need to be smart to be rich.)

It's a win-win with staff layoffs. Businesses that want to lay people off have a convenient scapegoat and AI companies receive undeserved praise.

A win-win for everyone but the employees, of course.

I thought the government just banned any regulation against AI companies. The inconsistency doesn't surprise me, but the brazenness sure does.

Especially because they are only good for AI, and they rapidly deprecate in value.

What's the deal with the "HPE" in some Register articles? It's apparently the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise logo, but articles about HPE don't appear to have that logo.

Is The Register affiliated with HPE now?