Oddbean

“IF BITCOIN IS SUCCESSFUL APPLE WILL BAN THE APPS. WE SHOULD JUST USE APPLE PAY.” “IF NOSTR IS SUCCESSFUL APPLE WILL BAN THE APPS. WE SHOULD JUST USE X.” BOTH TAKES SHOW A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF OPEN PROTOCOLS AND OPEN SOURCE CLIENTS. DO BETTER. BE BETTER. FREE MEN DO NOT ASK PERMISSION.

Apple dropped their own BNPL and opened up to 3rd party BNPL. Only a question of time before Apple opens up to bitcoin and becomes a lightning competitor. Same with X becoming a competitor to Primal on nostr.

FREE MEN DO NOT ASK PERMISSION. nostr:nevent1qqsrfeacv9pa3v79kswxerq4rsecv3xh3tf2t3kn6qc0q4e2wte68gqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygqyey2a4mlw8qchlfe5g39vacus4qnflevppv3yre0xm56rm7lveypsgqqqqqqss235g2

Crazy how even after watching #Bitcoin knock down every piece of FUD throughout its history the exact same arguments are regurgitated all over again with #Nostr. Separates the builders from the followers.

The age of #permission is over. The age of #freedom has already begun. However, the years ahead are full of #darkness and the only light will emerge through #freedomtechnology. Unfortunately, during the last few years there are many who have lost their eyesight and cannot tell darkness from #light. We need to share our #Vision with them. #wearetheWORDL, #BUIDL & #HODL

This is the ultimate defeatist, pussified take. If you bail on freedom because you are worried it’ll be “removed from the App Store” then you never cared about it to begin with. You *deserve* to lose it.

Both show a lack of intellectual curiosity (at best) and (more likely) a toxic attachment to the status quo that will keep a large number of people from a proactively better life, until they desperately, reactively choose it because they need it, or (at worst) an intentional desire to block something that is a threat to their own position of power or control.

Lopp ( @Jameson Lopp) asked him the question i was wondering when i read that: shutting Bitcoin service providers or outright mining bans doesnt kill the network. Seems to be making a case around censorship resistance and PoW. Was surprised because i thought he had a solid history of Bitcoin-only advocacy

For some reason Parker thinks nostr isn't censorship resistant because it doesn't have PoW. He probably doesn't know there is a PoW NIP. He also probably hasn't considered that nostr's tight integration with lightning can act as a form of PoW (imposing economic costs on certain actions.)

A man that knows the stuff “they” don’t want us too! Yea I’m working on drafting a private express trust that is an “unincorporated business organization” / PMA as you point out Just have to carve out the time to do so

FREE MEN DO NOT ASK FOR PERMISSION. 🗣👏 nostr:nevent1qqsrfeacv9pa3v79kswxerq4rsecv3xh3tf2t3kn6qc0q4e2wte68gqpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30qgsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgrqsqqqqqp9vxx0s

Matt i’m right with you fuck X However Yes I’d rather use Apple Pay with fiat than spend the hardest money ever made I know that wasn’t your point I’m just ranting It doesn’t seem smart to spend a scarce asset that only goes up over the long term on any significant purchase Why wouldn’t a person just use fiat So yes Im all for freedom tech But I won’t be convinced to spend my bitcoin in the name of freedom tech Like “hey you own a scarce asset that will only go up over the long term spend it on discretionary items to stick it to the system” No thanks life changing event major life upgrade then fine I get it Bullshit … why? So yes .. I still want my Apple Pay and my Freedom

*We (People, Bitcoiners) *They (People, Government) We all understand why they can block the protocols, we know that they are more interested in controlling us than in developing natural technologies and protocols. We also know that there are still very few of us, less than one percent, we know that most of us are not government officials or military, we know that we do not have weapons, so we try to be anonymous, but not all of us do everything we need to be safe. And we also know that we are not understood, that they do not understand what we are talking about until we explain it for an hour, that some people think we are strange, aliens, or worse, cultists. Doesn't this remind you of anything?!! I think that when we think like this, we harm ourselves, we dig our own grave. We have to stop doing this. Because now is the moment when everything has to change. We need to get out of our rabbit hole as soon as possible, create more simple instructions and involve as many people as possible... and preferably, these people should be "them". We need to stop separating money and the state, us and them. Otherwise, they will declare war on us, and you yourself write about it. Let's go to all governments with books, let's create programs for them. Let's create our future world without any wars. Let us become them.