It reflects a primordial political and philosophical conundrum: freedom vs. security.  We all know the famous Thomas Paine quote, but most are so baked into the secure aegis of the state, its fiat, and its consumer capitalism, what Isaiah Berlin called "negative freedom", that we can't really grasp its true meaning.

Fiat world, including big tech and all its invasive surveillance tools, still offers the material comforts of "freedom from suffering" that feel secure, all the while anyone who's been paying attention knows that our positive "freedom to act" has been curtailed.  It's a Faustian game of chicken where even though we know that, when it's gone, freedom can't be restored without massive discomfort, we're still willing to trade it away piece by piece because of the secure comfort of the status quo.

In theory, I am all in on Bitcoin and freedom tech, but we live in a fiat world and we all have bills to pay so even I can't stomach a fanatical full-scale conversion to living my life by a Bitcoin standard, yet.  It's all fine and good in theory for personalities on the internet to preach about it, but that fact of the matter is that there's a lot of work to be done on the ground to make the Bitcoin standard a material reality.

So long as that work is taking place though, you're right, we need to use nostr to document, promote, and support its progress. 🫡