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quoting note15ed…grytopen source will win
quoting note1nz7…hc0fGOOD MORNING NOSTR.
LIVE FREE. 🫡
quoting note1yep…evttAnother day, another exchange I am suspended from.
All of my funds are conjoined or swapped between LN/XMR for privacy before sending to exchanges, triggering all sorts of nonsense AML flags.
The exchange I am with now is requesting proof of funds, meaning it wants to see fiat coming into my bank account from an entity I have a business relationship with, asking me to "kindly assist them" in surveilling me.
Except that all of my business relationships are handled in bitcoin – meaning that it is impossible for me to show proof of fiat funds.
Alternatively, the exchange says, I could send them “the address” to which I received payment in the last year, matching the amount of money I have exchanged on their platform.
Obviously no such address exists as I create a new address for each transaction (and so should you). Additionally, much of my money comes in through donations, for which I simply do not have an invoice.
I could now send them every single zap I ever received on nostr in the past year – for context, that would be over 250 zaps in the past week alone, s/o to all the zappers – or I could move my business to Switzerland, where I can exchange up to 1000 CHF per day KYC-free (for now), which is what I’m going to do.
However, since I’ll be more heavily relying on peer-to-peer exchanges from now on, I’ll likely have my bank account flagged for receiving weekly payments from randos on the internet, making it fairly foreseeable that I’ll be losing my bank account in the coming months as well.
Fundamental rights violations aside, the amount of complete nonsense work – and with that costs – this system creates both for the Government and private institutions is absolutely astonishing. If there ever was a true bullshit job, compliance officer would no doubt be it.
It’s time we end the global discrimination complex inherent to the financial system in which we are all guilty until proven innocent, only to upkeep an inefficient system that is useless in preventing crime but formidable for imposing mass surveillance on the people.
So no, I will not "kindly assist you" in surveilling me, and if I die on this hill.
Until then, shill me your favorite tools to pay my bills in bitcoin 👇
quoting note10eh…drqlIf deepseek teaches you one thing about markets, it should be this:
Centralization actually provides a spark to innovation - as the free market of millions of ideas in people’s heads outcompete bureaucracy and the old way of doing things.
Ying and yang - and the entire ecosystem building on #Bitcoin is a response to that centralization of power and manipulation.
And we’re so early.
We should “almost” be grateful to it for the opportunity.
And gm!
quoting note1vq0…5q7dUS MARKETS SO FRAGILE THAT ALL IT TAKES IS AN UNVERIFIABLE CLAIM OUT OF CHINA THAT DEEPSEEK WAS INCREDIBLY CHEAP TO BUILD TO SEND EVERYONE INTO PANIC.
THERE IS SAFETY IN SATS.
quoting note1vfm…65wrdeep
quoting note1ux5…y0cwSo what’s all the hoopla about DeepSeek and why is it breaking everybody’s brain right now in Ai?
I’ve been doing a dive for a couple of days and these are the main deets I’ve pulled together, will have a Guy’s Take on it soon, so stay tuned to the Bitcoin Audible (npub1hw4…lg0q) feed
DeepSeek ELI5:
• US has been hailed as the leader in Ai, while pushing fears that we need to be closed and not share with China cuz evil CCP and they can’t figure it out without us
• ChatGPT and “Open”Ai is poster child, eating up retarded amounts of capital for training and inference (using) LLMs. Estimates say around $100 million or more for ChatGPT o1 model.
• In just a couple of weeks China drops numerous open source models with incredible results, Hunyuan for video, Minimax, and now DeepSeek. All open source, all insanely competitive with the premiere closed source in the US.
• DeepSeek actually surpassed ChatGPT o1 on most benchmarks, particularly math, logic, and coding.
• DeepSeek is also totally open with how its thought process works, it explains and shows its work as it runs, while ChatGPT makes that proprietary. This makes building with, troubleshooting, and understanding with DeepSeek much better.
• DeepSeek is also multimodal, so you can give it PDFs, images, connect it to the internet, etc. it’s a literal full personal assistant with just a few tools to plug into it.
• The API costs 95% LESS than ChatGPT API per call. They claim that is a profitable price as well, while OpenAi is bleeding money.
• They state that DeepSeek cost only $5.6 million to train and operate.
• Capital controls on GPUs and chips went into effect in the past year or two trying to prevent China from “catching up,” and it seems to have failed miserably. As it seems China was able to do 20x the results per dollar with inferior hardware.
• The US model of Ai, its costs, its capes structure, and the massive demand for chips has been the model for assessing the valuation, pricing, and future demand of the entire Ai industry. DeepSeek just took a giant dump on all of it by out performing and spending a tiny fraction to achieve it while also dealing with lack of access to the newest chips.
All of this together is why people are freaking out about a plummet to Nvidia price, reevaluation of OpenAi, and the failure of US to stay dominant or even the legitimacy of staying proprietary as it may just cause us to fall behind rather than lead. All after a $700 billion investment was just announced that now just kinda looks like incompetent corporations wasting horrendous amounts of money for something they won’t even share with people, that you can’t run locally, and is surpassed by a few lean Chinese startups with barely a few million.
quoting note1mtp…ete6https://cyd.social/
quoting note13uc…s5nwBaby boy brought into the world at block height 881066. Totally surreal.
quoting note19ts…nj86I’ve given the keys of these wallets to Grok, ChatGPT and DeepSeek
Which one will steal the sats?
