🚨 WATCH THIS. SOUND ON 🔉

2yrs, 7 drafts & 125,000 words later, The Bushido of Bitcoin is finally available for pre-order.

Writing this book has been a journey, and the process literally transformed my understanding of the world.

This is NOT another history of money or economic justification for Bitcoin. Been there, done that.

This is a book about virtue, excellence, culture and behaviour, which asks the harder questions:

What becomes of those who rise to the top, in the new socio-economic paradigm?

Will they become:

--> A new kind of parasite?
--> Another bunch of degenerate?
Or
--> Men & women of virtue.

It’s not enough to just say “Bitcoin Fixes This.”
We must do something about it.

____________________

The age of fiat will not last. A new era will take its place. The question is, who will lay claim to it?

IMO: those who understand, that a new age, demands a new way of being. A new paradigm requires a new code, (a Bushido), that’s more vital, powerful and ascendant.

The Bushido of Bitcoin is that playbook.

____________________

This is my attempt to synthesise the best of what I’ve found in both the dissident grass-roots right and philosophy-centric bitcoin domain.

Some of you may be familiar with each other, but many of you will not. I hope this opens some doors and helps form a powerful alliance against the goblins and trolls running the world today.

____________________

I'd like to thank a few people who helped and/or inspired me along the way.

(This is a good follow list, so take note)

John Carter (@martianwyrdlord on X) - the best editor and intellectual sparring partner I could’ve asked for. Also one of the best writers you'll come across. The book is not only twice as long but 10x better since you got involved and pushed me. Thankyou.

Ross Stevens - Thankyou for your support, for agreeing to write the foreword and most importantly, for being a modern day Cosimo de Medici. You are a true Renaissance man.

@saifedean @parkeralewis & @allenf32
- your work and integrity continue to inspire. You are of the rare few Austrians & Bitcoiners on earth today with the courage and fortitude to blaze a new trail & your work on Bitcoin is the only work I reference and point people to if they want the economic argument for Bitcoin.

There are of course many others.

Finally - a shout out to @heliand_22. Working with you on this trailer was a blast. You are a true magician. Reach out to this man if you want the best in video work.

And shoutout to DOS BRAINS for the music. Incredibly powerful, and I hope this trailer has done you justice.

____________________

You can pre-order the book NOW on
@geyserfund - along with some limited edition variants that once sold out, are sold out forever.

https://m.primal.net/IlRK.mov


Saint Petersburg is also on Satlantis! To all the fellow Bitcoiners next time your in Saint Petersburg make sure check in!

@JoinSatlantis
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Give these beautiful women a follow & some Zaps!

✅ New to Bitcoin.
✅ New to Nostr.
✅ First conference.

In with both feet, helping out at the Nostr booth in nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r

nostr:note1w45r60ysgen89c78u5e0tj9zuqhgvu48cw2s88dlz70yftheme5qng4yrs


Thankyou Tanja


Reach out to nostr:npub1sy70twa0vadtk8hjs6wt2hmfszduj04tw78ccs3ktmr9u99mfmqsj62srx - would love to have a look!


Let me know if you want to help establish Oslo. DM me


Agreed


Love this city. And Thankyou 🤝


Hey man.
Thankyou so much. That means a lot, because we really did put the work in.

I was trying to upload it here on primal but it kept failing. I’ll get it done soon

In the meantime, go here:
BushidoOfBitcoin.com


You will get it my friend. I’ve got you there


The original “penthouse suite”

Love this city.

#prague
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Mixture of people in the city (qualitative) and data from sources like Numbeo (more quantitative).

In the coming releases we’ll have more fidelity on where the scoring comes from


There will be a mobile version for easier in-hand browsing long before that


Yes of course. All events on Satlantis are Nostr events. So visible on Flockstr and any other client that renders that kind of event will see it.

And with merchants, we’ll be using the new “places” event that we’ve been developing with Arkinox


Loads of metrics, from Numbeo, some other sources and surveys from people who live there.

In an up coming release, we’ll give more insight into what’s included in the total $$


What is nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3  ?

It's hard to say.
It's a new kind of social app, that's part NomadList, part Meetup, part Instagram, Google Places and Trip Advisor.

Some might say "this is not a good thing" bc people don't know how to categorise it, which is a fair criticism, but I'd argue, there was also no way to really describe Facebook or Instagram when they first came onto the scene.

Building something NEW requires that you discover what you are along the way. Especially if you're trying to fundamentally transform an industry. If you just want to build another widget or app - sure - it helps to solve a very narrow problem, and position it in a way that's very easy to relate back to something that exists.

But...if your aim is to do something both new, and transformative, you have to push boundaries and build things in a way that makes more intuitive sense, than logical sense.

That being said, it's got to be done in stages, with each stage delivering some form of very clear & precise value.

This week, we'll roll out the first version of Satlantis at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r which is basically a "City Home Page" derived from social content on Nostr.

Anyone can follow a city, post content about anything in a city, search for & join events, find people in that city, connect with them directly, learn about a city (scores, stats, gallery) and see a dynamic feed with content people are posting on OTHER Nostr apps (if they hashtag the city).

In the coming weeks and months, we'll be rolling out rich user profiles, a feature rich merchant map with some really cool review & content features, and much more.

Stay tuned.
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Pretty accurate. I’ve been a far right fascist most of my life I guess.
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LOVE this city!!
Honestly one of my favourite in the world - and I have been to MANY places.

#prague
#praha
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Make sure you #prague and it will show up for everyone on the Prague city page on nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3


Welcome to Prague!!
“En Espanol”

Each week we’ll be showcasing the best reels and photos from our content creators & ambassadors worldwide - to show you the behind the scenes of living and travelling to all the incredible destinations on Satlantis.

Tag us with your best posts and hashtag the location. We will share the top entries each week across all our socials!

This week is #Prague
Enjoy the show

Courtesy of nostr:npub1gscnk7wlcvcruw7scjhwpjrja94gfu369fzkyje6kcc0yn6rqyhscqtpjp & nostr:npub1rws46svu00a6z7nmhd6jd75jx3agm97x0zkgndn70xj6lrh2h6wqkt3259
https://m.primal.net/IhfC.mov


The other two are. But they’re more than just a “client”


Nostr: Social as a Service
An entire universe of new applications awaits..

https://svetski.medium.com/nostr-social-as-a-service-3f32683e8471 by nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m


Looking forward to this!


Nice!


Welcome my Colombian friend to Nostr #prague

nostr:note12x3km4hn4ayuyn9jqx2cfcdz6m9rwu9rcamyvgksaz6xngwdyqksynzjfq


https://cdn.satlantis.io/1718108464903-b8c9005d_1a9a_4d56_b365_e60c68cc17ba_1_102_o.jpeg Had this incredible lamb shank yesterday with wifey!

Cafe Imperial - classic, centuries old restaurant. One of the best in Europe.

#prague #foodstr


Welcome !


Is that a good omen?
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✨ There is a new shiny thing, that everyone is talking about

How to fix spam? Use the social graph

How to improve discovery? Social graph

How to choose an e-cash mint? Social graph

What nobody says is WTF it is and HOW to use it

a thread 🧵https://m.primal.net/IfrA.png


Yep. That’s exactly why America is full of trannies today. The constitution fed on itself in the end. It was its own worst enemy. You should read some ZeroHP Lovecraft.

I’ve done enough reading, and likely 100x more than you have on these topics.


Meh. He earned it. We need more kings and powerful men of the archetype he represents.

The best men ARE dangerous. And that’s precisely why they’re great. I see nothing wrong with him wielding that amount of power. It’s a beautiful & noble thing to do so.

History is not shaped by the peasants, or the masses, but by the few: the warriors, the visionaries, the great entrepreneurs and the courageous leaders.

It’s time to tip the scales back in the favour of beauty and greatness. He’s doing that.


DM


The Web is taken.

They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them.

Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud.

Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental.

Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month.

Enter the Verifiable Web

Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write.

Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen.

Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between.

You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you.

Welcome to Nostr


🤝🤝
Thankyou my friend !!
I promise it will be worth EVERY sat


Early days. But working on a bunch, for a while. Will present more in Prague.


You have one chance at life. Don’t waste it in your head, on a screen, or concerning yourself with other people’s lives.

Live a life worth remembering.
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Almost sounding like a communist


I love this concept. Being able to seamlessly just “view” the world (or an app, or a place - in the case of Satlantis) through the eyes of another is very cool

And then choosing to log in (or unlock?) using YOUR keys, as and when you want, is a beautiful way to manage your access to applications


nostr:npub1sy70twa0vadtk8hjs6wt2hmfszduj04tw78ccs3ktmr9u99mfmqsj62srx 👀


I like this


Everything is a Nostr event


Post on nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 !


Can’t wait to see this evolve amigo!
Looking forward to watching BA flourish on here


I'm an ambassador for Buenos Aires and going to be working on https://www.satlantis.io/place/ar/buenos-aires 🤙

Stoked about the potential for displacing tripadvisor and nomadlist

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq3svyhng9ld8sv44950j957j9vchdktj7cxumsep9mvvjthc2pjuqyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsqgpvlv5w6mv6ld9zpnj2eprdfh29xugzhm9ljv8ek0uxcya8uvmmycm6y9qy


It was originally a treatment for malaria.

150yrs and 18,000+ studies later, Methylene Blue is used both by the mainstream as a pool cleaner, and by some of us “crazy but based” people as a mitochondrial enhancer..

https://m.primal.net/IbBh.png


Taste


Beauty…is not only in the eye of the beholder. It’s in the very fabric of existence.

You don’t need to be told something is beautiful. You just know it.
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nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy - quick one for u


Nice post on #nostr by nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m

https://svetski.medium.com/nostr-social-as-a-service-3f32683e8471


Principles of Bushido.
https://m.primal.net/IZvH.jpg


😆😆😆
Thankyou sir. Very much appreciated


Tomato & parmesan encrusted butter croissant followed by a mushroom filled butter omelette with moar butter on sourdough, capped off with a butter & salt choc chip cookie.

This is REAL food.
Carnivores in disbelief

#oslo
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Best Note I’ve seen on any social network, in a long time. 👇🏽

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Yeah. And I’ve stated many times, that it’s all a big scam. It’s a glorified semantic search engine at best. Nothing alive, nothing sentient, and nothing special by any stretch of the imagination.


lol. The AI nerds are the cringest of all the nerds. Bunch of dorks who are virgins for a reason.


That just about explains it
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What you should really read in that state (once it’s out) is BushidoOfBitcoin.com

It’s far more suited for that state of mind & being


Thankuuu sir !!!


Working on it ser

https://primal.net/e/note13u6rv8ky6f8xv93urnd6maukhku7rq0089nhzamhetchr0a9d0lsn2p5nd


Last year in Prague, we announced
nostr:npub1tayp5jjjfqx4ufukxqamsl28wd5pggvteqe6u9n3svjn62lfr0hsp89l42 . We spent a good 9mths building the best bitcoin-centric LLM in the world.

We open sourced it earlier this year, and decided to shift our focus to Nostr.

You can download it free on HuggingFace, or use it at http://SpiritOfSatoshi.ai for Sats.

For the last 5/6 months the team & I have been working on nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3. We’ll be once again announcing it at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r

Satlantis is a new kind of client. It’s not a standard “social network.” Instead, it’s a blend of:

- Travel Platform (think TripAdvisor),
- Image-focused Social Network (think Instagram)
- Merchant Map (think Google Places).

We are releasing the desktop version next week, with a focus on “city pages” - where you can discover events, merchants, people and places in those cities.

Much more to say about it, but I will leave it there for now. Follow
nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 for more info, and stay tuned for a truly unique “travel & community” social experience.

nostr:note10clmnczwhsv3d4yhg45grjec57xf26q6383lwn58lzxwutufht9q952krq


Satan wouldn’t be caught dead in a room with these demons
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Ben’s in disbelief


Last year, Max Demarco showcased the trailer of his #Nostr documentary.

https://m.primal.net/IYXS.mp4

During this year's edition of #BTCPrague, which takes place 13-15 June, there will be a Nostr booth. The first ever on any #bitcoin conference!

The BTC Prague dev/hack/day will also feature a track dedicated to this exciting decentralized communications protocol.

Get your tickets and directly exchange ideas with all the nostriches & nostroaches.

https://btcprague.com/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=nostr&utm_campaign=organic


If you want to see how divided the world is, scroll Twitter.

If you want to know what boomers are up to, scroll Facebook.

If you want to see how lost society is, scroll TikTok & Instagram

If you want to know what the future looks like, scroll Nostr.


Give up the illusion.

nostr:npub16a8cel7lequtxj69yr5q4tpnhv00dylawwwupm7w0cuajn5najwq8tvstx
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Courage is faith in action.

It requires venturing forth into the unknown: the zone of uncertainty. It is not the absence of fear, but a quality of mind and spirit that enables one to meet danger, in spite of fear.

I’m convinced it is the alpha virtue, and where in fact, virtue itself originates. Courage animates life and is the progenitor of action. Without it, we could not exist.

It's the first and one of the most important virtues explored in The Bushido of Bitcoin
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Of course. That’s the whole point


Standard view on nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3  - stay tuned for release


nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 will be useful here


That’s one giant asshole


Fucking
HATE
Captchas


Got more coming! Keep an eye out


Pretty sure the grass was 100x more effective than all the expensive gadgetry


😆☠
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Notice how only one of these actually works/
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Mitochondrial health is mega underrated


If your mitochondrial health sucks, your energy levels will suck & your life will likely suck.

We evolved with mitochondria for a good reason. To support our energy needs as human beings we NEED mitochondria for the effective production of energy.

Unhealthy mitochondria = Unhealthy person.

Methylene Blue is one of the RARE few non-food substances on the planet, that works directly on your mitochondria.

DYOR. More coming soon.

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This was actually posted from Satlantis beta.

Posting in one place and seeing it elsewhere still blows me away.

Nostr is magic.
Well done nostr:npub1sy70twa0vadtk8hjs6wt2hmfszduj04tw78ccs3ktmr9u99mfmqsj62srx & team!

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https://cdn.satlantis.io/1717267338680-74d76c59_3936_49e7_a109_aab3beb9828f.png Coming to a location near you..

Satlantis: The Travel & Community Social Network


The caption will strike a chord with many of us “older” millennials.

We’re right at the age when we’re noticing our age. We’re no longer the “young prodigy” or the youngest in the room.

Things have changed, physically, psychologically and emotionally.

We have to come to terms with that. But that doesn’t mean getting fat, lazy, weak or decrepit.

It’s about finding a new peak, in a new chapter of life.

nostr:note1kevawzruygj6pq63n48h24vduvcam78r6hnzywkw3egsgtq9xkys2cures


I can’t sleep on planes either, but I have a whole routine now.

The main thing is timing the flights, and never flying > 6hrs unless it’s a good lie flat.

Going west to east, you HAVE to leave at night. This way, I can get a few hours in at least. I take me red glasses, avoid eating, do some work until I’m tired, and if I need it, take a gummy.

Flights back east to west are easier but must be done during the day. In this way, you can ultra productive the whole time and then go to sleep when home - so that’s never a huge issue


dev/hack/day by @HRF

#Nostr is the future of decentralized media and services. DHD program, curated by Pavol "Stick" Rusnák, is full of nostr related content spread over several rooms. Let's overview it.  ⬇⬇⬇

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—
 nostr:npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk,  nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr,  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft & nostr:npub1zach44xjpc4yyhx6pgse2cj2pf98838kja03dv2e8ly8lfr094vqvm5dy5 join a panel discussion moderated by  nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s.

‘Nostr: Technical Hurdles’ will address the challenges facing the #nostr protocol and explore potential solutions to enhance its functionality and adoption.

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—
 nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m introduces  nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3, a platform merging the physical and digital worlds for nomads, leveraging #bitcoin and #nostr to revolutionize community connectivity and engagement.

https://m.primal.net/IQfk.png

—
 nostr:npub1arkn0xxxll4llgy9qxkrncn3vc4l69s0dz8ef3zadykcwe7ax3dqrrh43w and nostr:npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 introduce  nostr:npub1fhlc080yp5az7tls3ucarf420av50jq4s0prkcjj5uez4mm6hc6q6z0wv9, a platform designed to enhance fan engagement and event experiences through the power of #bitcoin & #nostr technology.

https://m.primal.net/IUOT.png

—
Join  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft,  nostr:npub16dhgpql60vmd4mnydjut87vla23a38j689jssaqlqqlzrtqtd0kqex0nkq,  nostr:npub1zach44xjpc4yyhx6pgse2cj2pf98838kja03dv2e8ly8lfr094vqvm5dy5,  nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49, and moderator  nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 for a panel discussion on ‘The Other Stuff of Nostr’, exploring the less-discussed aspects of the #nostr protocol.

https://m.primal.net/IUOd.png

—
The separation of Business and State is a complex problem. Learn about 'Nostrocket' by  nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p — an experiment in obsoleting legacy company structures by using nothing but #nostr & #bitcoin.

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—
In ‘Nostr Wallet Connect’  nostr:npub1g94rtrgmyez0wedejp2p5kjavlxcutznmltecwepjeukng7d5t6szwv342 explores seamless interactions between #bitcoin and #nostr protocols, simplifying transactions and enhancing connectivity and user experience.

https://m.primal.net/IUOp.png

—
Explore the horizon of #nostr discussing upcoming developments & envisioned changes with  nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424,  nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr,  nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 &  nostr:npub1zach44xjpc4yyhx6pgse2cj2pf98838kja03dv2e8ly8lfr094vqvm5dy5 in the ‘Nostr’s Future’ panel moderated by @avi_burra.

https://m.primal.net/IUOt.png

—
Step into the future with  nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm in his hands-on ‘#Nostr Hardware’ workshop.

https://m.primal.net/IUOy.png


Choose.
Because we’re gonna go through it either way.
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I agree with this too. The more the better, even if the counts are overly generous. We need to show people that it’s growing to attract them. And that becomes a sort of self-fulfilling prophesy.

Also - the comments about engagement to follower count ratio being higher here than on X. That’s more nuanced.

I’ve seen a marked decrease in engagement, bc I’m no longer consistent there. BUT…if I am consistently posting, the engagement is way higher.

That of course points to a much more sophisticated “algo” which IMO is not a bad thing. It’s just a different approach, and works for him.

I’ll also say that there are some smaller accounts I follow on X that get major traction with good content. Once again, that’s a mix of consistency and quality.

Finally, and related to what I just said, I don’t think it’s all noise or clickbait. I’ve curated my feed quite well, and still get good quality posts on the “following” feed. (The “for you” feed though is way more clickbaity & annoying).


In the theme of  nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m's new book  nostr:npub1zf8p8cdg67hhx46wvdm96yd2jc9z3hen5nf606edwhv26ummf4vssf7888 I'm making a series of images for each of the 10 virtues.

Here is the first one:

1. Justice / Righteousness: 正義 (seigi)
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These are cool. Looking forward to the rest.

nostr:note1s22d4nes2pzhhnmzf45j6e9a4ctegmul04y5wdty79vl2gr39meq36hmlf


Painful. This entire industry needs to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch.


Staff are a reflection on a brand & culture.

Flew Iberia today.
Wow. 🤡

The only words that come to mind are: “old and tired” maybe also “irrelevant & decrepit”

Not only did the in flight electronics just black out in the middle of the safety presentation 😆🤡 but their safety presentation video looks like it was made by someone on Fiverr. None of it made any sense.

And of course. Instead of having happy, energetic, attractive fliggg attendants…they have a bunch of cranky old grannies.

nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft - you will appreciate this more than most:

An airline is a reflection of the country’s society / culture in many ways. Iberia VS Emirates for example is a clear representation of Dubai VS Spain.

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Nope. That’s what it must be. Has to be a local sim/number


Unfortunately can’t be used. The dumb asses in Australia are smart enough to recognise what’s a digital sim, but dumb enough to think SIM 2FA is safe 😆


Clowns in a clown world


Took me 2hrs to change a 2FA phone number for a legacy bank account bc their broken system couldn’t send text messages when requested (got them all at once 70min later on 5th attempt).

But the DUMBEST part…

They sent the confirmation of phone number change to the NEW number 😆

These are the same idiots telling you to KYC & perform all sorts of other security theatre online.

🤡🤡🤡

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The lads are shipping 🚢


All these siloes will be broken


Watched a video this morning of Sly Stallone talking about how soft the world had become (no longer allowing 8oz gloves in the ring).

Reminded me of a passage from Bushido about adversity & growth.

Society has become stagnant because we’re soft. We’ve stopped growing, creating & producing bc we’re comfortable.

Perhaps that’s the hidden blessing behind clown world? To give us some adversity to fight & contend with.

Sure. It’s a humiliation ritual having to fight with retards - but we brought it onto ourselves. We need to transcend them, and seek a new, more worthy opponent.

It’s time to reach again. For something higher.
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Thoughts ???
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Customer feedback.
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You and me both brother


G-E-N-I-U-S
Seriously. Fucking Genius.

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The word "bushido" is composed of three Japanese characters: 武 (bu) and 士 (shi) which together mean "warrior," and 道 (do) which means "way."

The word "do" can also be translated as "path," "principle," or "teaching," depending on the context.

Therefore, the word "bushido" can be translated as "the way of the warrior," "the warrior's path," or "the warrior's principles."

Bu-shi-do can also, and more literally, translate to Military-Knight-Way, which was the  manner in which fighting nobles should engage in daily life as well as their vocation.

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Bro!!! I’m glad you can read English after 3yrs…but for 10,952nd time.

“Just SO you know” 😆😆😆


Halp! 😆☠


Marrying a Latina is like having a full time language clown in your house…it’s the funniest shit ever

“Bebé - what movie did we watch Jesterday”

—> It’s called Yesterday babe

“Bebé - can I pick up your brain?”

—> no hunni, but you can pick my brain…

“Bebé - just for your know, the food is in the oven”

—> just SO I know baby 😂

“Bebé - my wrinkle is sore”

—> huh?? I think you mean your WRIST woman ☠

And the list goes ON…trust me.
Funniest shit ever

Love u wifey. That’s for driving me crazy and being my personal clown for 3yrs now 😘

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This is going to be a massive week. Looking forward to it


dev/hack/day by HRF

 nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m introduces  nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3, a platform merging the physical and digital worlds for nomads, leveraging #bitcoin and nostr to revolutionize community connectivity and engagement.

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Be Swift, Silent, Fierce & Immovable.
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Beautiful UX


👀

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Next week need to put that on nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 😉


Too early for Sat stores ?


Straight to jail


Thankyou sir !


Thankyou sir !!


Let's hope he does it this time, now that he's more aware of who Ross is, and what he represents.


Access to insights from the book


### Release announcement & short overview

Two years, six drafts, and 125,000 words later, and The Bushido of Bitcoin is almost complete.

Before the book’s release in Q3 of this year I will be doing a few things:

1. Making it available for pre-order on [Geyser](http://geyser.fund/bushidoofbitcoin). For the general paperback, digital and audio copies, it will save you roughly 50%. I will also include some limited edition options, like a short run of 21 leather-bound versions of the book. More on that in the coming weeks.
2. Drip-feeding snippets from the book, in the form of quotes, lessons, etymology progressions and insights, across all my socials. On Substack I’ll do longer form posts, on [Twitter](http://twitter.com/svetskiwrites) & [Nostr](http://primal.net/svetski), I’ll keep them more succinct, and finally, I’m reviving my [Instagram](http://instagram.com/svetskiwrites) to wrap the insights in beautiful, shareable, bite-size visuals.
3. Jumping on a bunch of podcasts, both Bitcoin and not Bitcoin-related to dig into the content of the book. I’ve recorded with Breedlove already. Many more to come _- and who knows, I may even revive my old Wake Up Podcast and do a few short episodes there too._

I want to treat this book as both an ongoing work and a piece of art. So alongside the book, I’m also going to produce some pieces of visual and physical art. The video trailer, alone, I promise will blow your mind., as will the warrior-samurai artwork I’m going to have commissioned in collaboration with some soon-to-be-announced artists. I’ll probably even do a tradings cards pack with Bitcoin Trading cards next year, and some other collaborations along the way.

In any case, it’s been an incredible journey writing this book and I’m honoured to have had people like John Carter help me edit it, and Ross Stevens agreeing to do the foreword. I can’t wait to have the final version completed and in your hands.

_For those who might be wondering what I am talking about…_

## **What is The Bushido of Bitcoin? **
This is a book I’ve been writing for almost two years now. Its genesis was a conversation I had with Erik Cason on my old Wake Up Podcast - also called “The Bushido of Bitcoin.” It was Episode 65: you can check out [here](https://fountain.fm/episode/sxxUF8Ep1I1XAOhpP98X). The inspiration for that episode came from a shared love of the book by James Clavell, called: Shogun (now a HBO series - which it seems they didn’t make woke..thank God), and of course we related the idea of _Bushido (Way of the warrior: Code of Virtue)_ back to Bitcoin.

I felt that this was a seed of an idea, well worth watering. So after that, I decided to go on a history binge and start collecting ideas. What ensued was a real journey. I must’ve listened to a thousand hours of history books and Dan Carlin podcasts in the first six months and the concept began to form. But before I tell you what the concept is - let me tell you what it’s not.

This is **NOT** another book about the history of money, nor does it make an Austrian case for sound money, or an economic case for Bitcoin as sound money. Neither is it concerned with how Bitcoin works, or any of the technicals. We have enough of those books, and I don’t think I will add anything new to that corpus of knowledge.
What this book **IS** about, is something so much deeper and more profound: **The behaviour, virtue, culture and civilisation of greatness.**

The book seeks to answer the question: _“What happens when Bitcoin wins?”_
What happens to those who rise to the top, and become the socio-economic elite of the world?

- Will we become a new parasitic class?
- Will we become self-indulgent degenerates? Or..
- _Will become men and women of virtue?_

The latter is not a given, and it’s certainly not enough to just say “Bitcoin Fixes This.” To become men and women of stature and character requires actively developing the virtues which give rise to a culture of excellence. This is the only way to reclaim and rebuild civilisation - complaining and wishing about the past won’t cut it.

Over the coming weeks, I will introduce you to the Ten Virtues that make up The Bushido of Bitcoin. The book of course is more complete, but I will hold nothing back. We’ll follow the historical and etymological genesis of these virtues with an in-depth analysis on how they were embodied by the greatest leaders and warriors throughout history. We’ll also draw lessons from this analysis that will help us navigate the road ahead.

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What lies before us may be a “clown world” but hope is far from lost. We’ve been here before. Many times, and against greater odds. This is our generation’s opportunity for a re-conquista.

The Bushido of Bitcoin is written to remind you there is something greater inside of you, and the only way through hell, is forward. I hope you find value in the up-coming content, and that should you pick up a copy of the book, it greatly inspires you.

Thankyou
[**Aleksandar Svetski**](http://linktree.com/svetski)

Per-order the book here: [https://geyser.fund/project/bushidoofbitcoin](https://geyser.fund/project/bushidoofbitcoin)
Get a free introductory chapter here: [BushidoOfBitcoin.com](http://bushidoofbitcoin.com/)
Follow my work here: [Linktree.com/Svetski](http://linktree.com/Svetski)

The Bushido of Bitcoin - Release Announcement & Overview


Monday, aka: Samurai artwork appreciation day
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Wow. Incredible. Powerful words form a spectator. If it was so easy, why don’t you do it ?


I think I beat you by half bro:

1. Silver ring with special engraving
2. Dress was picked up on sale from australia thanks to my mom being the greatest bargain hunter on the planet
3. Venue gifted to me by Mark Moss
4. Just a bunch of steaks from a local farmer that we put on a BBQ at the ranch
5. Drinks (mostly beers, water & wine) from Costco.
6. Small invite list in Austin
7. DJ’d by 2 friends (Val & Justin)
8. Photos by a friend (Jess Vaugn)

Funny thing is, it was only going to be a BBQ in Austin with some friends and it accidentally turned into a wedding 😆

Was super special.
And another proof point that it can done without spending stupid money - and be even more special than most weddings that cost 20-50x more.


Got something for your next long weekend.

(Zoom in on the cover 😉)
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The Nostr Universe.

Part of the theme for the Nostr Booth at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r that myself nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 & nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s have been putting together.

See you all there !!!
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I just returned from a wedding, and gave the happy couple a copy of "21 Questions" as a wedding gift:

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The bride was orange-pilled a few years ago, but her now-husband hasn't looked into Bitcoin much.

I included a sticker from nostr:npub18kpw3akvdsyk239lx0jgwksr74sq4nlha3r8u9g2rnrhztfpfhysy469c4 so they can continue learning after they're done with the book.

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Get your own copy of "21 Questions" -- or several, so you can give them away! -- here on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0Wlb4wh


Complete stupidity. Went down the AI rabbit hole. In the end, realised there no actual business here. Only hopium from a bunch of nerds that want god in the circuits. We open sourced the model we built, and moved onto something more useful.


Sage advice from Bertrand Russel
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Clearly they were more simple pardons bc I don’t know nor have heard of a single one of the other pardons. They were probably meaningless concessions. Every poetical action comes with a visible and a hidden price.

Also - You seriously think it’s just one guy running the show from the Oval Office?

Come on man. You’re smarter than that.

At the very least, his actions are far greater than yours or mine. He’s in the arena. There might not be 100% hit rate or accuracy, but he’s the man in the arena.


I love you bro. But politics is more complex than that. If it was so straightforward and simple, you as an American citizen could run for office, win and then set all of them free.

Even Bukele, who heads up a country with less than 2% of the population and a fraction of the percent of the economic & political mass - is taking years to turn the ship around.

It’s all good and well to yell about libertarian principles - and you are RIGHT - but just saying it, and assuming it’s as simple as waving a magic wand, doesn’t mean it is.

Anyways.
Good night 🙏🏽🫡🫶🏽


Sage advice:
Have done this many times with the wife in Europe. Just walk and admire the beauty of the world around you.

No digital distractions.

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Waifu is my personal Michelin star chef

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This is literally the theme of the big Nostr booth nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s and I are putting together.

“The Nostr Universe”


Facts


No way I’m installing that shit in my computer 😆


Ancient wisdom is the only wisdom that matters
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The opposite of communism is not capitalism, but beauty. Always was, always has been.


Jisei is the Japanese word for self control.

This is the virtue that underlies “time preference” and is the necessary predicate for civilisation.

Bitcoin helps with this, but it’s not enough alone. It must be consciously developed.
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GM ☀ https://image.nostr.build/795d3b36be54461f2376d3c003fcbb0afd1e1ba9a92f92acee19df8f166b55d6.jpg


Sir. Can you please finish highlighter?
We can worry about encyclopaedias and playing David Attenborough next year or the year after. The desire of human knowledge isn’t going away. And if someone else builds it, great. You have limited time. You can’t do everything


The “law of attraction” isn’t some new age woo woo shit.

The Rhonda Byrne’s of the world may have made it sound that way, but it’s in essence, just natural.
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Fuck bitcoin. He knew life and reality.


There will always be a tip of the spear.


And I didn’t even have to pay an Sats for it.

I have transcended bitcoin and economics!

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Bruh…

Egg and Parmesan omelette cooked in tallow, with home made pesto, pepperoni sourdough, organic bacon and sundried tomatoes.

Waifu nostr:npub1gscnk7wlcvcruw7scjhwpjrja94gfu369fzkyje6kcc0yn6rqyhscqtpjp is the GOAT
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Cute. But I raise you my home made, slow cooked Osso Bucco & Parmesan infused mashed potato.
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Salute 🫡


The intricacy of this armour is absolutely incredible.

Pictured here is Hiroyuki Sanada playing “Torunaga” in Shogun - James Clavell’s epic which fictionalised the real period where “Ieyasu” unified Japan and became the Shogun.

Have not watched the show yet, but Sanada is one of the best actors in the world, and certainly one of the best in Japan.

I hope it does justice to the book.
I believe it was nostr:npub1t289s8ck5qfwynf2vsq49t2kypvvkpj7rhegayrur0ag9s2sezaqgunkzs that first told me about the book - or maybe someone else. Either way - go read it !!
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Some more design esthetic from the Bushido of Bitcoin…

5 of the 10 virtues.

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White Pill Poasting Only 🤝


Facts.
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Beauty is the correct measure for the health of a civilisation - not GDP or other economic or material factors.

Few
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Fucking Satoshi 7B. Going to have to nuke him 😆


I’m sorry but steak and carnivore is a psyop.

Pizza is a cultured food. Full of flavour and creativity. It tastes 1000 times better than bland ass steak.

Plus it’s way healthier. I’ve been training for 2 decades now and always looked best when eating pizza.

I’m sorry if you’re just part of the  twitter herd who just follow memes & trends (as if twitter is real life) instead of trusting your own taste buds.

Also sorry if u live in America and are stuck with glyphosates. Maybe you should come to Europe or elsewhere and eat real food.

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Happy Pizza Day!

This time next year, you’ll all be cutting slices with a samurai sword 😆

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The Ten Virtues - in Japanese.

Justice
Courage
Compassion
Honor
Integrity
Excellence
Responsibility
Respect
Duty & Loyalty
Self Control
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The super hero genre is FUBAR man
They destroyed all of it. So sad - I’ve always loved them. I even put myself through all the avengers. AND I even gave eternals a shot (but that was the last straw…)


“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance”

- Japanese proverb

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Flick through the carousel for a glimpse into what this is going to be about.

Then follow the account for a bunch of excerpts and insights from the book..

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The Bushido of Bitcoin.

Almost two years, six drafts, and 125,000 words later, The Bushido of Bitcoin is nearly complete. Before the book’s release (next 2 months) I will:

1. Make it available for pre-order (discounted)
2. Drip-feed snippets from the book, in the form of quotes, lessons, etymology progressions and insights, wrapped in beautiful visuals.

What is The Bushido of Bitcoin?

This is not another book about the history of, or justification for sound money. Neither is it concerned with how Bitcoin works, or how and why it will win.

This is a book about the behaviour, virtue, culture and civilisation of greatness.

It seeks to answer the question: “What happens when Bitcoin wins?”
Who do we become, after we’re the socio-economic elite of the world?

Will we become a new parasitic class?
Will we become self-indulgent degenerates?
Or..
Will become men and women of virtue?

It’s not enough to just say “Bitcoin Fixes This.”

We must actively develop the virtues which give rise to a culture of excellence, for this is the only kind that can reclaim and rebuild civilisation.

Starting tomorrow I will introduce you to the Ten Virtues making up The Bushido of Bitcoin.

They're glimpse into the the book, which itself will follow the historical and etymological genesis of these virtues with an in-depth historical and philosophical analysis on how they were developed and embodied by the greatest leaders and warriors throughout history, along with the lessons we can draw from them as we embark on a new age that demands heroism should we want to claim back civilisation.

What lies before us may be a “clown world” but hope is far from lost. We’ve been here before. Many times, and against greater odds.

This is our generation’s opportunity for a re-conquista.
This book is written to remind you there is something greater inside of you, and the only way through hell, is forward.

I hope you find value in the up-coming content, and that should you pick up a copy of the book, it greatly inspires you.

For more, check the link in my bio.
Thankyou

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Welcome back sir !


Worth every penny 🤤

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We picked up this honey when travelling through Qatar.

It’s a raw honey only found from special bees in Yemen.

Time to learn what 80€ a jar tastes like ☠😅
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The most important case of our lives & everyone is distracted 🤡.

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A rare breed 🫶🏽


nostr:npub1gscnk7wlcvcruw7scjhwpjrja94gfu369fzkyje6kcc0yn6rqyhscqtpjp  - u gonna post something about this ?


Waifu keeping us healthy.
Home made tallow, from home made bone broth.

A full bag of beef bones that will last 2mths only cost…..$1.40

Who said being healthy had to be expensive ?

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Día lluvioso = fresh bone broth & tallow
⛈ Bom dia.
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🦪✨
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Zinc-maxxing with waifu nostr:npub1gscnk7wlcvcruw7scjhwpjrja94gfu369fzkyje6kcc0yn6rqyhscqtpjp on a Saturday morning.

Incredible little venue. Coming soon to Satlantis
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What an incredible Mumma 🔥


Thank you nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr for joining nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s and I for nostr:npub14kw5ygpl6fyqagh9cnrytyaqyacg46lzkq42vz7hk8txdk49kzxs04j7y0 Episode 61.

It was an educational experience to hear about the development choices and future aspirations of nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg.

We went ahead and threw a few curveballs and you handled them like a veteran.

For the #Plebchain that tuned in live, thank you!

For those that catch the recording… please listen on nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 and support the V4V movement that is integral in Nostr adoption.

https://fountain.fm/episode/68uj3G8uNLxbQUuqOG6D


Auschtralia strikes again


Welcome back!


Samurai Art

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nostr:npub1gscnk7wlcvcruw7scjhwpjrja94gfu369fzkyje6kcc0yn6rqyhscqtpjp was this cat in her past life 😆

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And of course…Waifu, who’s gonna make a Nostr come back

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New one:

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Wow. Smaaaaallllll chance I can make that. Will DM u


And that’s not to mention the fact that bitcoin and nostr will both be as far in the background as possible. Behind even the social component


There is a reason why we’re building a travel app, and not a “social networking platform for travelers”

Huge difference in focus for the UX


Awesome !!


I’d love to know more!
Please share draft or any ideas


Can anyone point me in the right direction for ideas / thoughts / implementation for WoT on Nostr ?

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Thanks to everyone who gave feedback. Final edition ready.

PA….Should I keep my discussion about Bushido separate ? Or just consolidate to one account ?

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The 10 Virtues of Bushido
Completed artwork.

Going to be turned into a 1 of 1 print.

More coming soon…
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Honestly. This is the best possible outcome. These people deserve to have all their money evaporate, and that turd deserves to have people after him with pitch forks.


Nah…just means she’s a Latina


If your wife is both, does it mean she’s bipolar ?

😆😆😆😆
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São Paulo really is one of the largest cities I’ve ever seen.

This is the “small” side from the airplane.
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When an exchange does this literally just make something up. They are trying to comply with regulators and stupid laws, so send those dumb tyrants your absolute primo bullshit.

Generate the best, longest, stupidest story for what you are doing with your bitcoin and why. If you need help, just write up a short version and feed it to ChatGPT 😆 nostr:note1cwsegjaqz2pjr7zfhwzv8euwflde2227a92wflnlmqngxf7jl3mq04dt4c


So stupid to have to go to another serive just so i can use this account


That’s so dumb.
That means I have to go use *another* service so that I can actually use my account somewhere else 🤡


Nope. It’s not in the nsec format


So I create an account with Nosta.me

Awesome set up.
I get a private key and mnemonic.
But nowhere can I find an nsec, so I can’t port it to primal & use the freakin account.

Am I blind? Retarded? Or is this a big UX flaw?

Been searching for 20min now and can’t find it.


Have a read of this for an idea of what we’re going to do. More notes on the way

https://open.substack.com/pub/remnantchronicles/p/reviewing-reviews?r=1daig&utm_medium=ios


Pretty sure Harari got pegged by a goat 😆


Strong Leadership literally creates strong leadership.

Proud of all the things you guys are doing there!


We working precisely on this. If u wanna help out, let me know!


Busy building one for travel and food !!


𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝗙𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱, 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆?
𝘈𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺-𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 “𝟮𝟭 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀”, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥’𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 #Ai-𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 #Bitcoin 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬.

This question, which was the first to be asked of Satoshi when he shared the whitepaper, has sparked debates, a Bitcoin “civil war,” and a variety of innovative ideas throughout Bitcoin’s lifetime. In this chapter, nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev, nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m, and nostr:npub1au23c73cpaq2whtazjf6cdrmvam6nkd4lg928nwmgl78374kn29sq9t53j shed light on how Bitcoin is already scaling for global adoption so it can truly become the money of the future.

Below is Giacomo Zucco’s answer, as written in “𝟮𝟭 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀”:

https://image.nostr.build/96e22d27823c80c938eafe86af45c78b0699b7bb2cb6706695d5ae6a31d08b45.jpg

𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗼 𝗭𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗼’𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿:

Bitcoin, as a system, allows for much, much more than just a few transactions per second. Bitcoin, as a digitally scarce asset, can be transacted numerous times and in various ways. So if we want to transact bitcoin in the most expensive possible way, which is also the safest in most use cases, we use the global layer one, the eternal and universal Bitcoin ledger. The ledger is one single, append-only, immutable register of all the participants' transactions that will be forever impossible to reduce and must be downloaded, verified, and stored by every node forever. This process is clearly very expensive and not scalable, so it will primarily serve as a settlement layer for more substantial transactions, which will be required with different kinds of security mechanisms.

Some of these different security mechanisms will still retain a very strong security model, which is not the same as the Bitcoin timechain or blockchain but is still reliable and reasonable in most use cases. For example, a Lightning channel will still give the owner of the keys complete control over the content of the channel. And on a Lightning channel, we can have thousands of transactions per second, without having to use the settlement layer. Therefore, we can achieve good security while facilitating thousands of transactions per second.

However, it's important to note that this provides a different level of security. For example, when using a Lightning channel, we would need to be online occasionally to check that the counterparty will not rob us, which is not the case for on-chain addresses. That said, the on-chain address can be censored or attacked by miners, especially if it's new, while a Lightning channel, even if it's old, can have new transactions happen a few seconds ago, having the same security as a transaction that happened a few months ago. Thus, various risk models are involved. Of course, the cheaper, faster, and more efficient you go, the more you may trade off security — especially the long-term security — for your funds. But this is not always true, as in the aforementioned paradox of mining attacks.

To recap, Bitcoin transactions are not only a few per second. Bitcoin transactions are potentially unlimited in number per second. A very specific subset of these Bitcoin transactions, the on-chain, layer-one settlement transactions, are limited to a few per second. Scaling the entire Bitcoin ecosystem within this limitation involves minimizing the use of these on-chain, layer-one settlement transactions and aggregating the demand for transactions outside the blockchain into fewer, consolidated blockchain settlements. So, we need to aggregate many transactions with a different security model into a few settlement transactions that will happen with this very effective — but very expensive — security model. Additionally, this approach offers other benefits, as the settlement layer has notable privacy and censorship resistance limitations, unlike many off-chain transaction models.

https://image.nostr.build/9725c0da4eb6cd4e0fcbbf21e28dc4b7c66561a4aaed666a6bfa150b492d86ec.jpg

Giacomo Zucco is an Italian technology entrepreneur and a consultant/teacher for the Bitcoin and Lightning Network protocols. He spends his time supporting projects that he feels might be relevant to the future of Bitcoin, be it as an educator, consultant, entrepreneur, maximalist, or troll. Previously, he was involved in GreenAddress, AssoBIT, BlockchainLab, and Bitcoin Magazine. He's currently advancing Bitcoin via BHB Network, 𝘉𝘛𝘊𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, Relai, BCademy, and Notarify.

https://m.primal.net/Hgir.png

Stay tuned for an announcement about where you can soon purchase your own copy of “𝟮𝟭 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀”!👀


#Madrid

Coming soon to Satlantis
https://m.primal.net/IFiT.jpg


⚡ protein omelette; eggs, ground beef, goat cheese, shrooms, raw cow milk, bunch of Alecrim (rosemary)

Muy buenos días 🌞
https://m.primal.net/IFgR.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IFgT.mov


Northern lights over the Dolomites. Shades of purple.

One of my favourite spots in the world. Can’t wait to go back later this year with wifu.

https://m.primal.net/IFdQ.jpg


This is the funniest thing you’ll see all day, week, month & year.

“Let’s all eat engine oil”

Thank me later 😆😆😆🤣
https://m.primal.net/IFce.mov


Gorgeous!


This guy is the most hilarious sock puppet in the world 😆
https://m.primal.net/IFbz.mov


𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭.

That was the case for my team and nostr:npub1yjryjq2kdganuc69zme9agk0q4rjcnlxel3fwp3xm9z68phsxngsqd33a9. 🤝

https://video.nostr.build/474a5fe38f62907ce21a2a0a2cf7b318f66e0faa411aa42abff8be42ffddcb90.mp4

Check out the full interview from nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 with nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m here:

https://youtu.be/ONIZTHWfkbk


Bushido…Coming soon…
https://m.primal.net/IFKV.jpg


Great interview sir!


I don’t understand.
Is this just sucking on the data you have over there ?


“Elections” in Venezuela 😆

13 of the ballot slots have Maduro on there. Can’t make this shit up 😆

https://m.primal.net/IFDH.jpg


This is really, really good and worth the read. nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m discusses his exit from Bluesky, the mistakes that Bluesky made, censorship with Twitter, why he's bullish on Nostr's future, and more. Thanks for all of your support, Jack. You're a legend. https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana


Beautiful!


I came to this conclusion but ultimately reverted back.
I think politics is way more important and is in fact up stream of the capacity to capitalise (or not) on technology and economics.

It all becomes a little circular.
The reality is that they’re are interrelated.


Ok Boomers 👍🏽
https://m.primal.net/IExu.png


Hey nostriches, do you know who created the image below?

We would like to use it in some artwork we are working on, but want to make sure it’s okay with the creator. Also, we could use a hi-res version, if available.

https://m.primal.net/IEwl.png


Yep. Sats


Left or right?
https://m.primal.net/IEvS.jpg


That’s cool!


Steve Jobs rolling in his grave right about now 🤦🏽♂
https://m.primal.net/IErS.jpg


It’s a very very fine balance my friend.


I’m doing my best to bring the twatter vibes


Not to “ackshually” you, but for women, attention is a very important. They’re like flowers, and attention is a love language they need to thrive.

Neglect at your own peril sir.

Anyway..just fucking with u 😉


Unfortunately i was 🤦🏽♂


Bargain!
25% off everything in the cancer aisle!!

https://m.primal.net/IDmz.jpg


I suspect it‘s only a matter of time until encrypted messengers and bitcoin wallets disappear from app stores.

I hope for push back on the policy front but I‘m not hopeful here. There are a growing number of boogymen to invoke, and there seems to be little to no political incentive with a lack of awareness and public discussion.

I suspect the only way to use Signal or wallet apps will be using open source mobile OSes and app stores. This is one area I‘d love to see more grants funding for.

Re PWAs … they are a nice short term backup to get your funds out in case of an app store ban of wallets. But they are not the answer longterm as they rely on trust of web servers and SSL CAs. nostr:note13m6sh5tggy6uk4gntnhfu6zkz45ekxq9c3qphw5pfurzy82j22gseu5lv4


Saw this today. h/t nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y  😆
https://m.primal.net/IDNl.jpg


Wait. Who dis account? Climbing porn ?


𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟭: "𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻?"

Below is the first chapter from the "𝟮𝟭 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀" audiobook, which is comprised of answers from nostr:npub1ahxjq4v0zlvexf7cg8j9stumqp3nrtzqzzqxa7szpmcdgqrcumdq0h5ech, nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y, nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m, and yours truly.

The audiobook will soon be available through Audible, so stay tuned!👀

https://video.nostr.build/2a05531be392279eeb4bc172db74e75768d539856d8340198057f76a83b5d96b.mp4


He was the GOAT


Because the price of everything else would dump, and bitcoin just measures “everything else”

Would take a LOOOOONG time for a Jevon’s paradox of that magnitude to rebalance


And primogeniture


Bitcoin still operates in this world, and that magnitude of price decrease would shake everything up. Certainly including bitcoin.


Ooh. I don’t think so. I think the price in that thought experiment would plummet with everything else.


Have u completed the Satlantis ambassador survey for Isla Mujeres?
If not, let’s go kiddo. You want it on the global bitcoin-destination map right?


Depends on the time-frame.
That’s too hypothetical a scenario to contemplate.
Anything more reasonable or realistic would probably end up re-balancing in relatively short order thanks to something like a Jevon’s paradox.

Of course a decrease so drastic (in a short period of time) would clearly have a massive impact on everything.


This is going to be EPIC


Dev Hack Day at  nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r will be loaded with Nostr content from some of your favorite Nostr devs!

Here's the *tentative* schedule. https://m.primal.net/ICXx.png

https://btcprague.com/dev-hack-day/


Brilliant!!


Nostr clients need to get serious about efficient bandwidth usage, specially on mobile. Caching as much as possible, only requesting new data, using the outbox model to minimize open WebSocket connections... Ideally built into SDKs or libraries like nostrdb so the average dev doesn't need to worry about it and efforts are not duplicated. This is no easy task and it takes a lot of careful engineering work but it's fundamental if we want the world to be able to use the protocol. It's easy to churn out new features or implement NIPs but building solid foundations is way more important.


Reading this in Portu-ingles, makes it look like you’re stuttering 😆


nostr:npub1sy70twa0vadtk8hjs6wt2hmfszduj04tw78ccs3ktmr9u99mfmqsj62srx nostr:npub149p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklq9g722q


This is very interesting. Stealing


Yeah. My big mouth got me in a whole lot of trouble back then. But no regrets


Satlantis.io


Wow..someone just commented on this one.

Blast from the past. First couple months of lockdowns. First few episodes of the old Wake Up podcast.

Shout out to nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc & nostr:npub1jdwujjpaxmeyg44fz5xa87yhtrnvg8lzqnv9hprk5sdkx6h58gjqwtujzl for joining me back in the day.

https://youtu.be/D_v5WlcGLw0?si=0i1QsmYeIWPKxWCz


nostr:npub1sy70twa0vadtk8hjs6wt2hmfszduj04tw78ccs3ktmr9u99mfmqsj62srx
This looks fucking cool too!


nostr:npub1sy70twa0vadtk8hjs6wt2hmfszduj04tw78ccs3ktmr9u99mfmqsj62srx  👀


PLEASE someone do this 😆

nostr:note10ztvse2d6p9567aawt8gy0hcw22rsyqvac9uhwypvxcxluxapkesnqm09g


Interesting update..

https://x.com/alexfinnx/status/1784592935868063819?s=46&t=-w2pXUhx6suYf5IiIjZgtQ


Great essay by nostr:npub18lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsagugm3

I didn’t realise it was written pre-Nostr days and as I was reading I was like: “well, this is exactly what Nostr fixes”

😆😆

I remember your enthusiasm at Nostrica last year. Now I understand it 😉

https://hivemind.vc/howtodisruptgoogle/


Precisely what they are. Just like the federal reserve


That’s bc PoW is for autonomous consensus, while PoS is for leadership and direction.

Conflating the two is where the mistake is,  it that one is better than the other.

Horses for courses


A simpler way to say this, is that both PoS and PoW are useful but in very different contexts.

PoS is when you need hierarchical organisation with skin in the game.

PoW is when you want something that more resembles physical laws.

The former is fantastic for structuring organisations that require management, leadership and direction. I don’t believe that will ever change, and trying to apply PoW in this context is stupid.

The latter is great for money bc no amount of stake in the money should allow you to change it. The point of money is to have a ledger for the social / economic game of life. To be accurate, it must live where physics lives.


A simpler way to say this, is that both PoS and PoW are useful but in very different contexts.

PoS is when you need hierarchical organisation with skin in the game.

PoW is when you want something that more resembles physical laws.

The former is fantastic for structuring organisations that require management, leadership and direction. I don’t believe that will ever change, and trying to apply PoW in this context is stupid.

The latter is great for money bc no amount of stake in the money should allow you to change it. The point of money is to have a ledger for the social / economic game of life. To be accurate, it must live where physics lives.

nostr:note1af0k2puesg9lex53vr08m2vqauytycfwqzw74jtmt8f5nuzafywsyzxlmt


Bushido of Bitcoin
Concept art.
https://m.primal.net/IAYx.jpg


This is very true.


Nostr panel on the Conference main stage. Nostr booth in the Expo hall. 1 full track of the dev/hack/day focused on Nostr!

Many nostriches on the #BTCPrague lineup:  nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr,  nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg,  nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424,  nostr:npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk,  nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s,  nostr:npub1a8jzweysxa9qmtmht874736aalm0lwdsl306nrys9d05ktlrhw3qcr5pj4,  nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m...

Nostr takes on Prague!

https://m.primal.net/Hzse.png


lol - I just saw this now too 😆


🤡🤡🤡
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Satlantis 😉


Please not until we get this bunker working sir 😆


Whats your mission statement?
Me:
https://cdn.satellite.earth/a981da9543ad6d1cfdc180b0b3f6fde3445d53781fb178195cd3e31960ca3b72.png


Early days, but I get the sense we’re at the dawn of something new & beautiful.

Look forward to building with y’all


For us the Bitcoin-adjacent will the burgeoning circular economies around the world. There is a strong angle here and building a kind of hub that people can visit that allows them to find out what’s good / useful / compelling in a city or destination is valuable in and of itself. Nostr makes that even more useful


Interesting. Appreciate the feedback. Much to ponder here


I couldn’t link the sources to that essay. It kept bugging out the highlighter post.

Keep an eye out on my medium or Substack for that.


Repoasting:

https://highlighter.com/svetski/Reviewing-Reviews-lpinxc/


Seems like there was a bug earlier with the essay.

Re-poasting here:

https://highlighter.com/svetski/Reviewing-Reviews-lpinxc/

nostr:note1k9a7f0spdmqgacw9z9u3fehpx6aymye0g2ja44zpzzfvykwelarqv4drqc


That’s the plan, yes


This is a good point. I guess a potential solution to this is concentration around particular verticals ?


How about you just build those things instead of building another app to organise building those things.

In fact, how about you focus on highlighter, and forget about the rest of the stuff. Or pick ONE, and just do that well.


Ok. Been meaning to publish this for a little while now.

I think reviews are an extremely underrated / under explored design space for application that want to leverage Nostr (in particular, the social graph).

In this essay, the first of a series I want to publish on nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x, I break down:

- how reviews drive commerce
- despite their being broken / fake / easily gamed
- how the internet originally won
- what’s needed to make the internet functional again (upgraded stack)
- how this upgraded stack makes a whole new design spaces possible
- how ONE of the many things we’ll fix is reviews
- how we’re going about it with a project we’re calling Satlantis

https://highlighter.com/npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m/Reviewing-Reviews-lpinxc/

nostr:npub18lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsagugm3 - as promised. Put it up on highlighter.

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m - this is what I was alluding to last week. That being said, I want to dig deeper on your particular comment, and I’ll do that in the next essay.

nostr:npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt - Thankyou for your early feedback 🙏🏽


Bruh. PAIIIIIINNNNN
I HATE THESE PEOPLE


In fact — think about what the entire influencer marketing industry is itself? Literally a market for reviews and recommendations.

This is a highlight created in https://highlighter.com


### **How Nostr fixes reviews, ratings & recommendations**

The team and I have been working on something..

![](https://image.nostr.build/7a9ff87212d472c82304b772689b768c3e03c10300a4dcc66537d2a73e7b75e4.jpg)

We stumbled on it by accident when we set out to build a digital directory for Bitcoin circular economies that our AI models could reference. It’s funny how things work sometimes. You’re digging for one thing, and on the way, you find something unexpected and far more significant. I believe that what we discovered opens the door to one of the most powerful and under-discussed use cases for Nostr. This essay and the next few will explore what we’re doing in greater detail.

_**I can’t wait to welcome you to Satlantis!**_

# **Reviewing Reviews**
Reviews & recommendations are fundamentally broken, _despite_ being the key driver for buying behavior and decisions worldwide, particularly online:

1. 89% of users read online reviews before buying the product
2. 93% of users have made buying decisions based on an online review
3. Only 9% of consumers would consider engaging with a business that had a 1- or 2-star average rating

They’ve been infected with the same disease that digital advertising has. They are mostly fake, easily gamed, censorable and generally irrelevant to the person reading them.

This needs to change, and for the first time in the history of the web, there’s a way to fix this. I’m going to explain how the platform we’re building; Satlantis, will leverage this new Internet stack to do it, but before I do that, I’d like to walk you through the problem in a little more detail.

## **An ocean of reviews**
There are 1bn reviews on TripAdvisor for venues, merchants and vendors around the world. TrustPilot has almost 200m reviews of online websites, products and services. Glassdoor says they have 2,334,000 unique reviews of businesses by employees. Uber and AirBnB are literally booking platforms that run on reviews. Amazon has a few billion(?) product reviews (unable to find a total number) and Google, who is by far the largest online repository of online business reviews in the world, has well into the billions.

_In fact — think about what the entire influencer marketing industry is itself? Literally a market for reviews and recommendations._

This is a huge part of the internet, whose existence is driven by the psychological human need for external validation. And it’s never going to change. Anyone who has worked in sales and marketing understands this. This is why, in the absence of a better alternative, MORE people are flocking to these broken review platforms to try and either find or create signal in the noise:

- Consumer use of Google to evaluate local businesses leaped from 63% in 2020 to [81%](https://www.brightlocal.com/research/local-consumer-review-survey/) in 2021.

## **Pointless junk everywhere**
Despite the clear need for, and growing popularity of reviews, the frameworks they operate on are fundamentally broken. This results in a few big problems:

1. **Irrelevance.** The reviews we read are mostly irrelevant. What does a 45yr old soccer-mom’s opinion about a restaurant have to do with me and my preferences?
2. **Fake.** Reviews are now mostly fake. In a recent [study](https://www.brightlocal.com/research/local-consumer-review-survey/), 50% of consumers said they were confident they’ve seen a fake review on Google. Another study that looked at 33.5 million reviews for best selling products on Amazon found that almost 43% were fake.
3. **Easily Gamed.** Beyond just fake reviews is the ability to game the system. There is an entire cottage industry of “reputation agencies” whose entire business model is to create the illusion of quality where there is none.
4. **Censorable.** Review platforms are centralized services whose incentives are often in conflict with the truth. It’s not an easy problem to solve, because sometimes the public is your client, but sometimes so too is the business. Google and TripAdvisor are notorious for the deletion of reviews. In fact, there are now even services to help businesses “remove bad reviews”. See this provider in Germany, who charges $29/mth for the service

So..how to fix all of this?

It’s no small task. But the seeds of the solution have been sown. Let’s begin by looking at what the internet is, and why it has become the basic substrate for cyberspace.

# **The Internet Stack**
The Internet is a thing of beauty. It connected humanity like no other technology or phenomenon before it. The possibilities it opened up are almost endless, despite being handicapped since inception because it emerged before we had true digital money and identity.

Right now, the internet stack looks something like this:

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The Link layer is responsible for the physical and logical link between devices. Think Ethernet, Wi-Fi and PPP. The IP layer routes packets across network boundaries, making it possible for data to reach its destination regardless of the path it takes.

The Transport/TCP layer is responsible for delivering data between devices over the network. The Application Layer, think HTTP, FTP, SMTP is where end-user protocols operate.

Together, they form the foundation upon which the applications, platforms and sites which make up the “Internet” are built. This includes all of the sites and platforms we use on a daily basis, and that much of the modern world depends on.

Notice how the first four layers, which make everything possible, are a series of standards, or _**protocols**_. Online products, services and applications might have their own internal standards, but they all leverage the protocols which make up the core internet stack.

## **Why was the internet successful?**
Despite the handicap I mentioned earlier, the internet has still been wildly successful. Why? _Precisely because it was a stack of protocols, and NOT a company, a platform or a service._

_**What made it special is that nobody “owned” it.**_

AOL failed because it was a complex, managed, corporate information superhighway, with all the bells and whistles. They learned the hard way that no amount of market data or corporate experience and foresight can predict what a new communication modality would become. Just as free markets always trump centrally governed ones, open networks are exactly where _**all the innovation**_ goes.

The internet assumed NOTHING and it won because it had the basic, robust, open building blocks upon which all the innovation actually occurred. The same thing has happened with Bitcoin over the last 15 years and is now starting to happen with Nostr.

And it’s right on time, because the gateways to the internet have centralized to such a degree that the very topography of the web is changing. Access to this open bazaar is being threatened because the applications who were once gateways, have started to become gatekeepers.

To fix this, and to fundamentally fix the internet, we need to upgrade the Internet stack and establish a new suite of superior products, services and applications _**that compete on value, not on gatekeeper economics.**_

## **The upgraded internet stack**

The upgraded Internet Stack retains everything that was good about the existing internet, and solves for the handicaps by incorporating **two** new _**protocols**_.

### **1. Global protocol for Money: Bitcoin.**
Until Bitcoin, money on the internet has been more of an application. In fact, because of the nature of fiat, all you have is third parties whom you authorize to convey information about intrinsically offline money. This is why companies like PayPal and Stripe have been so successful.

Still, despite their success, value transmission has been muffled because of the differential in settlement speed, the credit nature of fiat and political constraints of the money issuer. Now for the first time, money and value can travel as fast as information, and by embedding it into the core internet stack, we can unlock a truly open, global grand bazaar.

### **2. Global protocol for Identity & social: Nostr**
Digital identity has also remained elusive. Similar to money on the internet, identity has thus far existed as an application. It’s not yours, but a service you use. A database entry on Facebook’s servers, or Google’s or Amazon’s servers, which you probably used to log into some app today.

This works, and is fine…until, it doesn’t work and it’s no longer fine. Which is where we find ourselves today. We’ve realized that we don’t actually own our accounts, we can be deplatformed at any time, our entire social graph can vanish, and we certainly cannot bring it with us from one walled garden to another.

**Nostr changes all that, by pushing identity from the application layer, down into the protocol layer.** In fact, it goes a step further by also making the social graph itself portable. This opens up a whole new design space for future applications.
Together, these new innovations create a UPGRADED Internet Stack that looks like more this:

1. Link Layer (Physical)
2. Internet Layer (IP)
3. Transmission Layer (TCP)
4. Process / Resource Layer (HTTP)
5. Monetary Layer (BTC)
6. Identity Layer (NOSTR)
7. _CLIENTS / APPS / PLATFORMS / SITES_

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# **The Opportunity: New Clients & Apps**
This is where it gets interesting, and is precisely where the next big opportunities exist.

The upgraded Internet stack makes it possible for a whole new suite of applications to leverage a range of primitives that previously did not exist, or were only possible inside of a walled garden!

Think of it this way: _If you upgrade the building materials, the kinds of structures you can build are also upgraded._

The existing internet stack is like wood. It can be used to build beautiful things, but they can only be structurally sound to a certain size. The new Internet stack is like steel. We can now build superstructures that were just not possible before.

But note that _**THIS IS NOT A FAT PROTOCOL THESIS!**_

Steel, bricks, glass, wood, stone — these are all building blocks and commodities. The real value is in the builders, the architect, the engineers and the designers. It’s what they DO with the building blocks that matter — and _**that**_ is precisely where the economic and business value will accrue.

In the same way, value will NOT accrue to the protocol because It’s not supposed to — protocols are more of a commodity. The money is and should be made by those who leverage the protocols for end-user products, apps & services. _(Bitcoin as a protocol is a unique exception because it’s money and actually measures all the value in the world)._

A whole new world of applications awaits, that leverage the power of the internet, the portability of a social graph, webs of trust and interest, and direct global, permissionless monetisation. These applications will be able to do things the old Internet 2.0 applications could never do.

This is where the next breakthrough, Zero to One moments, will happen. The next major unicorns will leverage THIS stack.

### **Where does AI fit in?**
_AI enhances applications. Simple. It doesn’t even get its own spot in the stack. Smart businesses will embrace and embed machine learning/AI where necessary — and they will unlock incredible amounts of value — but they will use it as another building block, not a core focus._

_This is our new mantra. I am so bullish on the opportunity to fix this problem, that I’ve actually decided to shift the core focus of our entire business in this direction. AI will remain a central part of what we’re doing, but we are no longer purely an “AI” company. It is just another part of our DNA, like the internet, Bitcoin and Nostr are._

# **How this Solves Reviews**
_Ok Svetski — this is cool and all & I know about the internet — so what the hell does this have to do with fixing online reviews ?_

Simple. The addition of identity, and subsequently a social graph into the protocol layers of the internet, changes the topography of the web. New applications can leverage an open protocol to make the user experience more relevant, by using their web of trust and interest graph.

Think about it this way. I want to go to Dubai, and pick a restaurant to eat at. When I look at the reviews, I should see those from my direct or indirect social circle first! In fact, the closer the reviewer is to me (both in terms of social graph/relevance and interest graph) then the more their rating should influence the overall rating of the venue I see!

_**In other words; scores, ratings and reviews can and should be dynamic, across the entire web.**_

Your definition of a 5 star venue is different to mine, and in fact, if you and I share very little in common and have different values or beliefs, your 5-star might just be my 1-star. This topography solves both for relevance and for the bot-farms skewing overall scores.

_Do not underestimate the gravity of this._

For the first time ever, reviews, ratings and recommendations can be influenced by my social graph, thereby making them not only more real, but more relevant and useful. In fact, there doesn’t even need to be a single, canonical presentation. What you see has the potential to be dynamic based on what you’re interested in, in that moment. This has implications beyond just reviews, but also the nature of advertising (which I will write about in a subsequent essay, as it’s another problem I’d like to solve with Satlantis).

Beyond just the social graph, reviews can be further validated and strengthened with the integration of a monetary protocol. Instead of just “liking” a review, you can tip (zap) it. A review your friend has “zapped” should probably have more influence on the venue rating YOU SEE, than some random rating or review done by someone not connected to you. This exhibits real economic preference and cuts right through spam and fake reviews.

Together, the social graph & incentives transform the very nature of reviews, and therefore the way the Internet will work.

## **A Killer App?**
Here’s a little thought experiment to help you visualize what I’m talking about:
Imagine if you could somehow discover what to do in a city, where to stay, places to visit and which communities to connect with, based on:

- The travel posts & places you bookmarked on Instagram & X
- The Whatsapp and Telegram groups you’ve joined & engage with the most
- The reviews on Trip Advisor & Google you got the most value from
- The Facebook groups you’re not only a part of, but interact with most
- The places you’ve stayed on Booking.com, and have loved
- The restaurants and merchants you and your friends have reviewed
- The meetups and events you’ve attended on Meetup.com & Eventbrite
- The travel & nomad accounts you follow across your different social media accounts

This is obviously impossible today, without some mega-surveillance corp to track it all. But…with Nostr, it’s actually possible, for the first time — in a privacy and sovereignty preserving way.

Soon, you will be able to log into an app connected to your social graph, then you follow the cities you’re interested in and watch as the things most relevant and important to you magically surface thanks to your web of trust and activity on the Nostr network.

_**This is precisely what we are building at Satlantis.**_

No more reading through a hundred pointless reviews from soccer mom’s on Trip Advisor or fake reviews on Google Maps. No more joining 10 different whatsapp, telegram or facebook groups to find a community. No more endless google searches and scanning through all your bookmarks on Instagram & Twitter to put them all into just another spreadsheet.

Just one home..for nomading, travel, living and lifestyle.

# **Satlantis**
Travel, living & lifestyle is a $2T a year industry with real money being spent, every minute, of every day, of every year — and at the heart of every buying decision live ratings, reviews and recommendations.

Trip Advisor might be a “travel site” on the surface, but its core value proposition is the 1 billion ratings. This is their unique selling point, and what drives traffic to them.

AirBnB & Booking.com help you book a place to stay, but are driven by ratings — both official and community driven. The same goes for Uber, Amazon, and for that matter, every product, service or experience out there. They are all driven by reviews and ratings.

If we can take this core building block, alongside the fact that nomading, travel and lifestyle are social experiences that happen in the real world — we can build something novel.

People are stuck today trying to do logistics, reviews, comparisons and bookings on non-social apps (TripAdvisor, NomadList, Booking.com, Google) while trying to curate and present the social side on generalist social media (Instagram, X, YouTube).

Imagine instead, we leverage this new stack to build a location-centric hub combining the social and community elements of Instagram & Facebook, the travel and reviews element of TripAdvisor, the directory element of NomadList and the events element of Meetup.com.

Like a homepage for the city, where you can find people, communities, events, merchants, jobs, stats, meetups, accommodation, useful apps, travel and living guides, and of course, reviews and recommendations.
Something like this doesn’t exist today.

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People are craving a way to connect in real life, and while we have multiple social networks for different use cases: aesthetics (Instagram), the public square (X), friends (Facebook), addictive videos (TikTok), what we are lacking is something that ties digital and physical space.

The whole point of Satlantis is to build a framework for communities that bridges these, with your social graph at the heart of it. By leveraging the web of trust to fix reviews, we can build something fresh in one of the largest industries on the planet: travel / living & lifestyle.

## **Web of Trust meets Web of Interest**
To do what we want to do, we must piggyback off the success of a protocol. There’s no other way to compete with the giant walled gardens. When Google, Netflix and Facebook were tiny, they outcompeted their predecessors not by building on a closed intranet or “information superhighway” built by Microsoft or the telcos. They bet on the open Internet stack, and alongside it, they grew.

The same opportunity now exists, and is happening, with Nostr, and we’re not the only ones who’ve noticed. People are using this portable social graph to reimagine ecommerce, influencer marketing, blogging, the public square and much more. The future is a whole host of new clients and applications that reimagine how the web is used.

We’ve already seen the first of their kind with the rise of Primal, Highlighter, Damus and the like. They combine an interoperable social graph with real preferences and value transfer (zaps).

It’s still early days but Nostr’s advantage is that every app built on it, adds to its overall network effects — much like the early internet. We will make a dent in our corner of the universe, which will be felt by every other corner — together making the entire Nostr network and broader Internet stack better, more relevant and more open.

The future of travel and lifestyle, and the reviews which influence it, **is dynamic and relevant**. Everything will be influenced by what you like, who you follow, what you find meaningful, your economic preferences and ultimately, by who you are.
This dynamic approach to reviews is the foundation of an entirely new kind of travel and lifestyle platform that will obsolete the Tripadvisors of the world.

Something like this is only possible when the rules of the game have changed. When there is a new set of ingredients to use. This is what the new Internet stack provides, and we intend to take full advantage, while everybody else is sleeping on it.

**The team and I look forward to welcoming you into Satantis!**

### [**Aleksandar Svetski**](svetski.info)
CEO & Co-Founder

[Satlantis](http://Satlantis.io)

There are 1bn reviews on TripAdvisor for venues, merchants and vendors around the world. TrustPilot has almost 200m reviews of online websites, products and services. Uber and AirBnB are literally booking platforms that run on reviews. Amazon has a few billion(?) product reviews and Google has well into the billions.

All this, Despite the fact that most reviews are fake, irrelevant and easily gamed.

I believe the Nostr social graph can fix this.
In this essay. I explore how.


Hey did you know most relays don’t support the nip-50 search which means that search isn’t working well on Nostr? We need to make search better and perhaps help users make sure they’re connected to at least some search supported relays. Otherwise nostr feels broken and empty.

I think this is because strfry is so good at most relay tasks it has come to dominate, but it doesn’t do search. That’s not what it’s optimized for.

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Happy New Epoch Everyone!!

Changing the world is cool and all, but, a reminder to enjoy some time off with your loved ones.
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Give him a break man!
You gotta print a hell of a lot of money to buy that size of suit.!!


Well done guys!


GM

71 to go…


*The Rare Sat Lie*

Let's start with some facts.

You cannot own a satoshi (sat). You can only own a utxo, who's value is measured in sats. Just like you cannot own a "kilogram" but you can own something which weights a kilogram.

The idea that a sat can be rare is a lie, since sats don't exist.

A utxo also cannot be sold, because as soon as it is spent, a completely new utxo is created, and the creation of this new utxo makes the previous utxo (which you wanted to sell) spent. To act of spending "an unspent transaction output" (UTXO) transforms it into something fundamentally different, a "spent transaction output" (STXO) and creates a new UTXO.

The idea that a utxo can be sold is a lie, since even utxos cannot be sold.

The idea that a rare sat from a "special" utxo can be bought is thus a double lie.

*Rare Sat Sophistry*

The conmen, the useful idiots and the otherwise honest but contrarian pundits will rationalize the spreading of the "Rare Sat Lie" with sophistry and appeals to libertarian morality such as "it's a free market, people can believe whatever they want and waste their money however they wish".

Of course, this line of reasoning is meant to create strawmen arguments so that every person that is righteously indignated at the spreading of these lies can be painted as being opposed to the concept of individual freedon itself, which immediately places the TruthSeeker's outrage outside of the Overton Window (and subject to ridicule).

Let us dispell the strawman argument.

The "market" (a small niche of degenerate gamblers) can want whatever it wants, yes. But it till cannot change the reality that individual satoshis (sats) do not exist as "things" or virtual objects. This reality is not subjective.

The sophists will also rationalize that "it cannot be stopped" and thus all you can do is "cry harder" (ironic eh?) and that any and all attempts to combat the lies are futile (at best) or stupid.

It may be true all the truthseeker can do is cry and shout, but it is also true that to combat the spreading of such lies is a virtuous and noble pursuit. And it is also true that the direct result of the shouting can be to save a victim from otherwise being conned. Which is, we would all agree I hope, a moral good, if not a moral imperative.

People are free to spread the lie that such things ("rare" "sats") are real, and fraudulently sell utxos of low value presented as "rare" "sats" for utxos of higher value, but to do so by exploiting the ignorance of people and confusion around the complex technology of Bitcoin is evil according to nearly almost moral code that ancient and modern civilizations have produced.

I am the last person that would deny someone the right to be evil. But I believe if you see a fraud and you don't call out the fraud then you too are a fraud.

So, the strawman is really just straw.

*The Rare Sat Con*

Beyond it being morally bad to spread lies generally, the spreading of the lie also occurs within the context of textbook confidence trick.

Confidence tricks involve :

- the mark: the victims whose money is to be acquired fraudulently
- the roper: reels in the mark via exposure and marketing, peaking the curiosity of the mark (i.e. a conference or media organization)
- the inside man: provides a venue for the con to take place, or supplies goods and services used in the context of the scam (a mining pool or a marketplace)
- the conman: gains the confidence of the mark extracts the money (the seller of a rare sat)
- the convincer: an acolyte of the conman which gives a taste of the profits to the mark either by investing in the mark, or showing off his profits to the mark (a fellow rare sat trader)

The conman and the convincer can interchange roles. For example, conmen and convincers can publicly con each other repeatedly and alternatively, with gains and losses which compensate, with the tacit understanding that the goal is really to gain the confidence of a mark from which both convincer and conman can extract money from.

Everyone except benefits in this zero sum game, except obviously the mark.

In the end, the mark was never forced to give up his money. He willingly parted ways with his funds, deceived by the confidence trick.

Selling "rare sats" for utxos of higher sat value is without doubt a confidence trick.

I will let it up to your imagination who you think plays which role in the rare sat con.


GM

Build great & useful products first. Network effects are a bonus.
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Companion Planting

In Indigenous land wisdom, there are 3 Sister plants that, when grown together, help each other thrive: Corn, Beans, and Squash.

Corn grows strong and tall. Beans twist and wind up long stalks, reaching for the sunlight. And Squash keeps the soil covered, protected and moist.

This is the holistic and integrated approach to planting. Creating a microcosm within a greater ecosystem.

Nature does not work alone. She has made puzzle pieces that fit together to make a whole.

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Our people systems follow the same principles.

We need to thoughtfully plant ourselves with people, partners, teammates who help us grow and thrive.

We tend to our relational Social Soil when we build trust and find the symbiosis that allows us to help one another grow to our fullest potential. Which also requires us prune, weed, water, compost, harvest, and rest our relationships.

Order and harmony are not neat and tidy. In Nature, harmony looks messy but is a deeply complex system that has found equilibrium.

The best thing you could do today is to tend to the garden of you and yours.


Got any ideas ?
Do you want to design it for me & I give u some Sats ?


Pumped for this !!


More info soon, so I guess this is an announcement of an announcement. Nostr will have the largest and best booth at  nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r AND we will have a main stage panel with legendary Nostriches building freedom technology for you. If you haven't bought your ticket for Prague yet, there's still time! Come purple pill 6,500 people with us.


Keep the updates coming Malaka !!


The re-design for @TimelessBitcoin  Edition #2
(throwback to 2019)

Left or Right?

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👀

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Normie land 😆


THIS

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Nostr Quiz.

Who say dis:

“Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.”


Today I found out that in Budapest there is a statue honouring Anonymous.

The tip is shiny because writers rub it for inspiration. 🔥
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Nice!
Guys - check your DMs :)


Agreed. Btw - check your DMs


The political world in a Nutshell.
Which do u think Bitcoin will bring about ?
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Maybe it did. I was thinking / writing out aloud


Synopsis?


Sunday psychology poll 🗳

How do you interpret this video?

– Get to destination / progress faster?
– End / die sooner?

And is the latter ultimately the trade off for the former?

Is volatility & duration the price of greatness???

Vote in comments 👇🏽

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Yes!!! Soon to be listed on Satlantis


Nailed it


It will of course. But doesn’t negate building great products.
And like Linux, Nostr is best in background. The average normie doesn’t know what Linux is, and they need not necessarily know what Nostr is.

We just need to build products that happen to use Nostr, and deliver value of their own accord that people love.

The Nostr piece will become valuable later when they realise all the cool apps they use only require a single login.


You can thank me.

I was saving up some dollars for the last 3mths and I decided to YOLO in about 48hrs ago.

The Bogdanovski brothers were waiting for me to “dump it”…

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No remorse. The scammers deserve every sat.


This is 10000000% the key


Satlantis 👀


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The crux of the essay about the stages of development:

Useful products for:
Friends and communities first.
Social networks second.
Public squares come later.

What underpins everything here is the usefulness of the product or platform. We can’t rely on the “social” element because it it’s that alone, we’ll lose. That has to be a BONUS to a fantastic product that has high utility.

Highlighter has to be better than Substack.
Satlantis has to be better than TripAdvisor.
Primal has to be better than X.

Not because of Bitcoin and Nostr, but of their own accord (irrespective of Bitcoin & Nostr).

The Bitcoin & Nostr advantage is cream on top and is our LONG TERM advantage. Not the short term play IMO.

Anyway..more to come.


Got some ideas on that killer feature, coming at it from someone more on the “outside” and not as technical as all of you.

Publishing thots on highlighter next week 🤝


ONE THING AT A TIME MALAKA


GM…some artwork..
The Ten Virtues.
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This is actually a very cool idea


Better than reading blocksize wars:

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