Front page of the Wall Street Journal. #Bitcoin
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#Bitcoin omega candles are punching holes in the sky
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“Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.”
― Carl Jung
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Correction: March 26, not January 16, 2020.  https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
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Money is upstream of every possible issue or problem you could ever possibly care about.

Not everyone believes in God or Abraham or Jesus or Mohamed or the Buddha or Darwin or Newton or Death or human rights or social contract theory.

But everyone believes in money. In fact, the one thing the left and the right have in common these days? Both of us feel the dollar dying.

The Fed is destroying the U.S. dollar via indiscriminate inflation. Money printing. A silent tax.
Currency debasement. The reserve rate has been exactly zero percent since January 16, 2020.

Look it up. And then look up the price of eggs.

Our debts are no longer based on fractional reserve banking. It's fictional reserve banking.

Now look up the definition of cancer.

Study money. Study history. Study game theory. Study cryptography. Study hard money. Study energy. Study economics. Study information. Study thermodynamics. Study data commons. Study privacy. Study Minksy moments. Study self-sovereignty.

Study #Bitcoin
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Everyone: “HOW CAN #BITCOIN SLAP?”

#Bitcoin:
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race to the bottom


let me guess, jfk shot himself?


Self-sovereignty is not yet universal.
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#Bitcoin offers billions of people around the world a Swiss bank account in their pocket without a third party.

This unique selling point renders #Bitcoin valuable to most citizens within any society debased by tyranny or poverty or currency collapse or theocracy that forbids financial autonomy to certain subgroups.

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#Bitcoin is a giving tree.
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#banksy


#Bitcoin is the only thing that’s gonna take out the garbage—which is just another type of Debt.
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FYI this actually reads as “BITCOIN UP” because the yellow ranger is dead.


Bitcoin is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people: tyrants, despots, and cypherpunks.
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Bitcoiners HODLing through the highs & lows of the last 4 year cycle:
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Bitcoin breaks the binary.
Bitcoin breaks all false doctrines & dichotomies.
Bitcoin breaks everything that is already broken.

Bitcoin is synthesis.
Bitcoin is the third way.
Bitcoin is the final rabbit hole.


I’m reading Heidegger’s Being and Time right now, and it’s kinda fucking with me. For some background, I’ve read a lot of his other works (including The Event, which is the Time part of ‘Being and Time’) and I honest to God think that Bitcoin is The Event that Heidegger is speaking of.

It’s going to be a very, very long concourse to unpack it, but it seems that Bitcoin is authentic Dasein as a reflection on Being in our world and what the implications of understanding Bitcoin means to any person both today, and into the foreseeable future.


Opt out - use #nostr. https://i.nostr.build/SEAZQDrhkeGNvR41.jpg


“This is… Mathew  Kratter from Bitcoin University.”


getting into the zone at El Zonte

#BitcoinBeach
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Agreed.

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RFK wrote a letter to the editor in the economist today.

archive.ph/AO4un
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Orange pilling with Rick.

We talk money, time, energy and why #Bitcoin is one of the best tools we've ever created.

The harder our money, the better we are.

Time and #Bitcoin are the only assets where no amount of demand can create more supply.

https://youtu.be/hW36zox-xR8?si=GP-OSoU6CbF41DO6
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The two most important inventions of the 21st century: the atomic bomb and non-violent revolution.

Imagine if we could nuke the puppet masters of the military industrial complex without lifting a finger?

What if all we have to do to choke the death machine that is Moloch to death is HODL?
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Tao Te Ching
Finite and Infinite Games
The Brothers Karamazov
Slaughterhouse Five
Man’s Search for Meaning
Moby-Dick
Blood Meridian
Lolita
The Book Thief
East of Eden
The Stranger
Life of Pi


The root of evil is not money.

The root of evil is cheap money.
The root of evil is borrowed time.
The root of evil is stolen energy.

The root of evil is fiat usury.
The root of evil is the absolute power of Monopoly money that corrupts absolutely with its monopoly on violence. The root of evil is Debt backed by Death.

The root of evil is stealing the Now from the Forever by sacrificing our children for a perpetual war that races to the bottom and bankrolls the tragedy of the commons.
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The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, and Uncle Sam are locked in a lemon party of debt.

It’s getting old and we’re sick of it.


Only the greatest fools invest in the S&P 500
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Contemplating if I should just stop and drop everything I’m doing to become Johnny Bitcoin Seed and spend the rest of my life trying to orange pill the world
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Gradually, then so suddenly. “₿itcoin is gonna break everything that is already broken” - 🍄


Reminder:

PoS = Piece of Shit


Hodling Bitcoin is the only way to opt out of funding the military industrial complex by silent taxation without representation.

Bitcoin is peace. ✌


Economic first principle 🤝 common sense 🤝 laws of thermodynamics


No such thing as a free lunch
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Money doesn’t grow on trees
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Energy cannot be created nor destroyed

Few.
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There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s Bitcoin.
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Why did we need the military industrial complex in the past?

Why did we need guns, tanks, aircraft carriers, drones, and nukes?

Answer: to protect our gold reserves. But after WTF happened in 1971, gold reserves were rendered extraneous and we needed to secure a more productive commodity instead: oil.

But since now everyone in the world has access to digital gold that can protect itself, the military industrial complex is functionally obsolete. The era of the petrodollar is over.

The global arms race is now democratized and decentralized. Anyone anywhere can now directly and autonomously protect their time, money, and energy with softpower.

Bitcoin has not only destroyed every last incentive for war by upending the logic of violence, it has fundamentally rewritten just war theory itself.
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🚨 BREAKING: Archived footage found of #Bitcoin fighting off fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
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#Bitcoin is a cheat code for farmers

A reserve of energy to make it through hard seasons

Hard money that protects the purchasing power of hard work

Regenerative farming is a low time preference endeavour. Requires low time preference money

Hodl mentality overlaps well with the patience and resilience of regenerative farmers

Farmers understand proof of work because farming IS proof of work

#Bitcoin #health #farming #ducklife


I’d rather go all in and marry PoW for life than be some cuck in a PoS gangbang polycule
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You don’t have a #Nostr account. You have a key that signs events, and you publish those events, and then anyone who wants to read those events can do so by retrieving them from anywhere they exist. There’s no one to turn it off, there’s no account to suspend or restrict. There is simply information flowing to and from you and everyone else who uses it. This puts the power of speech back in our hands.


10 years ago, Hal Finney was writing #Bitcoin code with his eyes and using it to pay for his medical bills during his final days.

Few have paid it forward as much as him. Thank you for being one of #Bitcoin’s first believers. “We’re pretty lucky overall.”

RIP to the legend.
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#Bitcoin rewards curiosity & courage.

Curiosity to follow the rabbithole as deep as it goes. Curiosity to admit you were wrong about something as basic and fundamental as money. Curiosity to follow the money.

Courage to believe even when the rest of the world can’t. Courage to take a leap of faith and buy and #HODL #BTC but take full responsibility if you fuck it up. Courage to buy the Truth and to never sell it.

Curiosity is the master virtue that inspires self-mastery and courage is the final virtue that tests your commitment to self-sovereignty.

Now are we brave enough to ask how we can stop war ad infinitum and debt ad absurdum? Are we brave enough to defund the criminal usury seigniorage complex and the fascist military industrial complex and communistic CBDCs and panopticon surveillance late stage capitalism to death with our bare diamond hands?

Are we brave enough to #HODL Anon?
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Careful now Moloch.

Humanity is ₿eginning to see through the Bullshit.
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The Age of Fiat Il by nostr:npub18mema8d3u0ex37zwjdadw0rgwu4933hlemqagtlwaa0jzjk3atusqluyuj


You are one rabbithole away from freedom 🐇
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Patriotism is not about loving your country blindly. It is about accepting its
flaws and solving them little by little
	-Gerakison, Aug 2016


#Bitcoin put an atomic clock on the wrist of the invisible hand.
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Fiat is cancer.
#Bitcoin is the cure.

Gradually, then suddenly.
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If the Democrats win, #Bitcoin wins.

If the Republicans win, #Bitcoin wins.

Any questions?


I do the kind of meditation where you try to think about nothing


The BIS is the IMF is the FED.

Fascism is fascism is fascism.

#Bitcoin retires them all.


Off you fuck, Big Brother. Fuck your entire face off as you fuck off forever. Thanks so fucking much for absofuckinglutely nothing, you fucky piece of fucked up McFuck from the factory of fuckery & ministry of fuckness


Infinity is just absolute scarcity with a twist.

Happy #Bitcoin Infinity Day!
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Is this photo from an art exhibit/museum?


The only win-win currency on the planet.

Came for the gains,
stayed for the revolution. #Bitcoin


As horrific as communism is, late stage socialism surveillance capitalism is already a de facto Panopticon.

And speaking of #house of leaves, every tree is in fact ‘a place where you can see and hear everything’. Spiritually speaking, that is…


#Bitcoin is rat poison. And the military industrial complex is the ratking we are going to kill.


Waluigi needs to stop hitting on peach. She’s clearly into reptiles


✨💜 Pura vida🍀🧡  Stacksats ♾
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#Bitcoininfinityday 21/8 ✨


My favorite page on the StLouisFed .org (FRED) site:

"Buying eggs with bitcoins."

Since they started keeping track in January 2015 through July 2024, the price of a dozen eggs:

- In US dollars: Up +46.0%, from $2.11 to $3.08.

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- In #bitcoin: Down -99.5%, from 925,406 sats to 4,903 sats.

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CONCLUSION: Life gets ever more expensive the longer you save in dollars (or any government fiat currency), while it generally gets (much) cheaper the longer you save in #bitcoin.

Inflationary fiat currency versus neutral inelastic energy money...

The choice is yours.

Source: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2022/06/buying-eggs-with-bitcoins/


If your portfolio don’t got #Bitcoin, you gots a poorfolio

 1% > 0%
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If we build sovereign wealth funds based on #Bitcoin, which is the only asset that stands a chance to appreciate faster than the U.S. government’s accumulating debt and interest, only then does UBI make sense to me. How else could a government possibly ever bankroll it?


The market doesn't "decide," price controls don't work because the price is a result of voluntary market interaction. It's a thermometer, not the heat itself.

Price controls are analogous to capping the thermometer and letting pressure build up, while claiming that we've controlled the temperature outside.

Saying "the market decides" is like suggesting we are "letting the weather decide the temperature" instead of the weatherman. When the second statement is just nonsense. The weatherman doesn't control the weather, if he is manipulating the thermometer then its just lying about what the real temperature is.

My proposal isn't about "letting the markets decide," because markets are literally the only thing that create prices in the first place. I'm saying we shouldn't have institutions with the express authority to completely monopolize a market and then lie about the price.

Price controls are simply lies, we should just stop lying.


“Bitcoin is repricing this house to its utility value. I can make a choice any time to be able to use my #Bitcoin to be able to price my house. If I price it today, what I'm really paying for is a way overpriced house, because people see it as a store of value and it's a really bad store of value compared to Bitcoin.” — nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe with nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u

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Weezer_TeenageDirtbag.mp3 didn’t sound like weezer but I’m still just a dirtbag baby


Thug Digital Life https://video.nostr.build/cf98c2784dc3451544bd34476ec5df3a0027890bf3e91205666d843d7e96afa8.mp4


British himbo would eat mom’s spaghetti off my sweater already if it would get him more likes


💯 far too few people get this.

There is no such thing as capitalist system with a central bank.

If you have a central bank, your political structure is at least 50% communist, as half of every transaction is settled in a government-controlled fiat currency. nostr:nprofile1qqsg2zqd8wkhpnxu6lm5c2dyfa2mhpwte57apjae2ldp6g2mmwf3ypqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7v5unzt
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The second best way to spend your Bitcoin is to get a nostr:npub1mea2vwcu06qf7e4x00wd902vj54qnn2jacq76ldntrgfhtvhlpqqrvqane account. I was skeptical at first, even complained about their free product making it a bit annoying to use. After I got a paid account, I became a Proton Mail maxi. It's such a good service and its really becoming an alternative to the Google Suite.


The five stages of fiat grief
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Just buy index funds they said.
It will work out great they said. https://image.nostr.build/74646b6a6f9c70aff38aa7b53f9b17748f2366b05bc346413304e0c2b3ab00a7.jpg


Is there a better FAQ for #nostr than this one? https://uselessshit.co/resources/nostr/


Is Jiddu Krishnamurti talking about self-sovereignty?
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Bank security practices are so byzantine and broken it's absurd. I spent 45 minutes helping my mom unlock her Chase account today (which was locked because she sent $500 via zelle to a friend who is in the hospital!) Here's how it went:

- Locked for no reason
- Number on website goes to automated answering machine
- It asks for her debit card number (what?) to identify the account
- This is lost and also needs to be replaced. There is no alternative method, 0 doesn't get us to a person
- I call Chase customer service, different number, very similar system, but I am able to get a person on the phone
- They verify her identity by making me hand the phone to my mom and ask her to state her name (what). They also ask for her ssn and a security phrase she doesn't know, although she does manage to share the security phrase for her other bank.
- They re-order the debit card and transfer us to another department, where we do the whole verification charade again
- They send a 2fa code via sms. We receive it, but the site shows an error and won't let us put the code in.
- They then send a different code, and ask me to give it to them over the phone, which the text message explicitly says not to do.
- Despite my better judgment I gave them the number. They then do something on the backend, and I enter a *new* code they gave me over the phone into the web portal to get it unblocked.

It's no wonder old people get scammed! Force someone to deal with this BS for 20 years and anyone would get confused and give the wrong code to the wrong person.


I just gave a friend an update on what Nostr is and showed a bunch of apps in the ecosystem. Showing how fast it is and how all of these apps use the same identity and data but are different in their focus. He has been around the space of social media protocols for years but he was blown away.

We’ve really got something amazing. We need to do a better job of show and telling the story. It’s not about just zaps or censorship resistance or the way we’re doing web of trust moderation. We’ve built something which works really well. It fulfills the dream of the early days of the internet, web, and Web 2.0. An open interoperable internet, by and for the users.

As an aside, yes bitcoin is part of it, but it’s so politicalized that some people dismiss nostr as that bitcoin social media protocol. We see people join nostr and through it discover bitcoin, that’s the path to wide adoption.


Living this way is fucking retarded. Pray for your normie friends. They’re fucked. https://image.nostr.build/ff581f4edb437f2b1120fb04cff3fedafec2601b0aa9149c2b461a1de3cedb94.jpg


Deepthroating your shadow both sucks and blows…


time to come clean about zee bugs
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If only both sides could see the common enemy
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The universe is one song.
The cosmos is one chorus.
We are all part of the Great Algorythm.


Everyone deserves to realize this
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“An energy currency can stop war.”
Henry Ford

#Bitcoin is the answer
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Almost 14% of Earth's surface hit record-breaking temperatures in July. The Mediterranean Sea hit its highest temperature on record yesterday, breaking a record from last year.

I cannot help but feel like our hydrocarbons are coming home to roost?

Methane is more than 28 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere, and it's 80 times more harmful for 20 years after it's released.

An estimated 60% of today's methane emissions are the result of human activities. The largest sources of methane are agriculture, fossil fuels, and decomposition of landfill waste.

If only there was a technology that could directly capture such energy waste and turn it into gold?

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Weaponized accelerationism is too dark for this timeline


53 years and 🖕day ago
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#Bitcoin is a neutral, decentralized, apolitical, censorship-resistant form of currency that cannot be debased, defaulted, or dispossessed. Built on an immutable and transparent monetary policy algorithm, a permissionless database secured by an incentived consensus mechanism that serves as a property protection & power projection protocol.

#Bitcoin is the only blockchain that unites money with energy itself.

#Bitcoin is open source money based on an open source network secured by a geographically agnostic energy bounty that serves as an open borders molecule-to-marketplace that powers modular, circular economies accessible anywhere to anyone at anytime.

#Bitcoin guarantees everyone has the human right to own a Swiss bank account in their head without permission from a CEO, corporation, conglomerate, cartel, committee, commission, church, cult, country, or counterparty.

#Bitcoin is the icon of self-sovereignty: the pursuit of transparency, accountability, and privacy. No rulers, just rules.

#Bitcoin is the largest nonviolent resistance movement and the most universal act of civil disobedience in history that is anti-Monopoly, anti-Tyranny, and anti-Bullshit.

I vote with my dollar.
I buy the truth and I never sell it.
My vote is my right and my voice and my code is my speech.

#Bitcoin is my first amendment freedom of speech and my right to consent, privacy, private property, contentious objection, self-defense, and censorship resistance.

#Bitcoin is my right to exercise my freedom from the monopoly of violence, freedom from debasement, freedom from silent taxation without representation, freedom from fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

#Bitcoin is distributed freedom money of the people, by the people, for the people.

Fiat is broken, and we can’t fix it.
#Bitcoin works, and no one can break it.
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Happy ₿elated ₿irthday Gary Larson!
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The 1st Amendment means we have the right to provide safe, nonviolent spaces to express freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of conscience.

Every potential collective problem we will ever have on this earth will either be solved by war or words.

Therefore, we have a human right to speak our hearts & minds and we have a responsibility to humanity to listen.

“Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto”


This poem by Ken Saro Wiwa is good enough to be a #nostr anthem.

Self-sovereignty is a fundamental human right. My freedom of expression includes my freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of conscience.

#BTC & #Nostr is Anti-Monopoly, Anti-Tyranny, Anti-Bullshit.
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Financial privacy is enabling freedom of speech against authoritarians.

The banking system and KYC regulations are taking this human right away from us.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/15/russian-court-jails-us-russian-woman-for-12-years-over-50-charity-donation


Have you heard of a “Minsky moment”?

Because that’s one scary sentence…
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No-coiners don’t realize the Nakamoto Consensus is the closest thing we got to capital T Truth given the fact it’s used to secure the most objective database in human history.


My #Bitcoin is rather worried for the $13 in my fiat checking account right now.
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nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z breaking it down on TFTC with nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy good stuff.
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I’ve done Irish showers (start cold, end hot) for the last 7 years. That voluntary step into cold water blasting my face is the hardest thing I do every morning but swallowing that toad is my way of starting the day with a W.

But this year I bought an Ice Pod and started doing ice plunges. Started at 35 degrees Fahrenheit and gradually moved down. Found my limit after literally breaking the ice one morning and ice plunging in 32 (0 C) water for 90 seconds.

Listen: My body was on absolute FIRE afterwards (one of the best feelings EVER) for a good 5 minutes but my fingers were numb for 12 hours.

So, everything in moderation (including moderation) but I’m still convinced heat/cold therapy is one of the best protocols for cardiovascular health and longevity.
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r/fluentinfinance is just an endless advertisement for #Bitcoin

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Here's my profile for Reason on Nostr and why it could very well change the world

Pasting a few paragraphs here, you can find the rest at the link

Feel free to spread far and wide 😉

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Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True?

Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network

Alex Gladstein | 8.13.2024

Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken. On Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, people fear out-of-control algorithms, fake news, state actor censorship, and propaganda. Google and Meta collect vast troves of personal information on their users and receive hundreds of thousands of requests every year from governments around the world to access that data. YouTube has become arguably "the most powerful media platform in the history of humanity," yet its algorithm is an ever-changing black box to the creators that populate the platform with videos. During the pandemic, federal officials were in contact with every major social media platform, coercing them to remove content.

The problem is centralized control. We can't trust companies to run our primary communications infrastructure. Government regulation only makes matters worse because it creates new legal barriers to entering the industry, which protects incumbent players and stifles innovation.

What if there were an alternative, not owned by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or the Chinese Communist Party? What if there were a way to control your own data to prevent companies from harvesting and monetizing it? What if you had granular control over what you see in your feed, with the freedom to choose your own algorithms? What if you owned your identity, which could be accessed seamlessly across different clients? That way, if you disapprove of the changes that Elon Musk brought to X, instead of closing your account you could take your handle and followers elsewhere.

That alternative exists. It's called "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays"—or Nostr.

The Decentralized Solution

Invented by a pseudonymous programmer and overwhelmingly funded by grants from non-profit foundations, this decentralized, free, and open-source protocol has been quietly evolving for the past three years. Like bitcoin, Nostr is a community-run digital network highly resistant to censorship and corruption. It has 40,000 weekly active users and a growing ecosystem of clients and applications ranging from social media to long-form publishing to payments.

Nostr is only necessary because our existing internet is so broken.

Fifteen years ago, social media seemed destined to decentralize the world and give power back to the people. In 2009, we watched as Arab Spring activists used Twitter and Facebook to organize, coordinate, and help topple several long-standing dictatorships. The promise was that these new social platforms, designed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, could help liberate the masses.

It was intoxicating—but turned out to be a mirage. The Arab revolutions stalled out when brutal military regimes cracked down. These platforms became tools for spying and censoring their users. X and Facebook have helped journalists and human rights activists reach bigger audiences, but they haven't fulfilled their revolutionary promise.

Jack Dorsey's Shift from Bluesky to Nostr

This was a major theme at the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum, which is put on annually by the Human Rights Foundation, where I serve as chief strategy officer. At this conference for democracy and human rights, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey told the audience that the problem was, actually, guys like him: The very fact that Twitter, now X, has a CEO makes it a single point of failure. Governments routinely pressured Dorsey to censor content; once the company's offices in India were raided. Dorsey says that under the new Musk regime X complies with whatever governments want.

The X network is proprietary. Known as a "silo," this construct traps a user's identity, followers, and data. X also has the power to evict anyone from the platform and delete what they've written. Several years ago, when he was still running the company, Dorsey became convinced that Twitter should become an application instead, where users could post content to an open, ownerless network. This would make it similar to how bitcoin works, where you use an application called a wallet to interact with the network, but the network itself is neutral and open.

Building a non-proprietary architecture was Dorsey's original vision for Twitter, but over time the need to maximize revenue to build a business and serve shareholders undermined that goal.

Nevertheless, in 2021, Dorsey encouraged the creation of Bluesky—an initiative bootstrapped in-house to create that open neutral base layer. But after Musk bought the company, the managers of Bluesky were afraid they would run out of money and started raising funds from venture capitalists, which undermined the vision of building an open platform. Dorsey grew disenchanted and left the Bluesky board.

At the conference in Oslo, Dorsey explained what happened next:

I asked a question: What open source initiatives should I be funding that would be helpful to the public internet? And people kept tweeting at me that I should be looking at Nostr. I found the GitHub that described it and it was 100 percent what we wanted from Bluesky, but it wasn't developed from a company. It was completely independent. Its paper diagnosed every single problem we saw and had. But did it in a grassroots and dead simple way, that felt like the early Twitter where any developer could get on and really feel it.

Escaping the 'Golden Prisons'

Nostr was created in 2020 by the pseudonymous Brazilian programmer fiatjaf, who describes it as "the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global 'social' network once and for all."

Though nobody is in charge, Nostr works as promised and is thriving. "It is the solution we've all been looking for," says Miljan Braticevic, founder of Primal, one of the two dozen plus clients now available for the Nostr protocol. "Nostr is not a Twitter competitor or a Mastodon competitor. This is the biggest misconception at the moment. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Nostr is nothing less than the foundation for the new internet. Meaning almost every conceivable app we have today will be built on Nostr."

Braticevic's prediction is echoed by at least a dozen other prominent developers. Martti Malmi, the first coder to work on bitcoin alongside Satoshi Nakamoto, is now a Nostr developer. In a recent talk, he said he had started to work on similar ideas around decentralized identity in 2019, only to come close to giving up. But then he found fiatjaf's invention, which he called a "godsend."

"Bitcoin is freedom of money, and Nostr is freedom of everything else," Malmi said. "I was there" in the earliest days of bitcoin, "and Nostr is even more intense."

For something that could be world-changing, Nostr is quite simple. To join, you sign up with a mobile or desktop client, which helps you to create a public and private key pair. The public key (or "npub") is used as your identifier, and you share it with clients and other users so that people can find your posts or pay you for your content. The private key ("nsec") is hidden by the user, stored safely (just like a bitcoin seed phrase), and is your way to log in to different services. Unlike platforms like X or Facebook, no other information is required to set up and use Nostr.

This gives users a powerful range of sovereignty. You can use a client, for example, that has strong hate speech controls. Or you can choose one that doesn't have any at all. You can use a client with aggressive algorithms, just like the ones X uses today. Or you can use one without any algorithm at all. Today, when you log in to an app like Primal, you can sort your feed by what's the latest, by what's most popular, by what's most zapped, or by customized keywords. It's up to you.

Last month, the macroeconomist Lyn Alden, author of one of the best books on bitcoin, published a long essay about Nostr's potential:

[Nostr] is a simple set of foundational building blocks that, if widely adopted, could gradually reshape "the Web" as we know it. Instead of a separate set of siloed social ecosystems, we could gravitate toward a more interoperable set of ecosystems, with more of the power dispersed to the content creators and to the audience, and away from the middlemen corporations.

The Nostr network is constructed like a spider web that can morph and regenerate, making it almost impossible to censor. When you set up a client on Nostr (perhaps, Primal or Damus on iOS; Amethyst on Android; or Coracle on the web), you choose from a variety of relays to connect to. This architecture ensures no single point of failure: If you are connected to seven or eight relays, and half of them choose to censor posts, your feed remains censorship-free, as your app will display the net sum of everything broadcast from each relay. If the Chinese government decides to attack your relays—as it did in 2023 when Damus launched on the Hong Kong and mainland app store—then more can be spun up. "The enemy," said Damus creator Will Casarin, "is too numerous."

Prominent bitcoin developer and educator Gigi—who switched to Nostr and deleted his X account—says that what helped it become so resilient is that it has zero exit cost. If the Chinese Communist Party bans YouTube, its domestic users lose everything. There's no way to get back their profiles and followers. The same is true if a user voluntarily closes an account.

Gigi calls these corporate silos "golden prisons" with no escape. Nostr's spider-like architecture makes escaping easy. If one client goes down, or you fail to connect to one relay, you just find another client or connect to another relay. You keep your posts, photos, preferences, contacts, and even algorithms of choice. If you use X, you are an X creator. But if you use Primal, you aren't a Primal creator, you are a Nostr creator.

https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/


What’s the secret to success as a nation state?

nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m gives a crash course master class on Guns, Germs, & Steel and the endgame theory in three minutes.

There is no second ₿est.
https://m.primal.net/JyXi.mov


Gotta swallow your pride if you wanna get past denial and anger to finally swallow the orange pill 🍊💊


Every #Bitcoiner must pass through the 5 stages of fiat grief.
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CODE is SPEECH is FREEDOM.

Big Brother can go fuck the fuck off.


The more ₿utterflies the ₿etter


It almost seems like fractional reserve banking is just a lemon party between usury, seigniorage, and infinite money printing?
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Self-sovereignty is anti-tyranny, anti-Monopoly, and anti-censorship. #HODL in #BTC & we starve late stage capitalism & choke the military industrial complex & bury the creature from Jekyll island & blind the eye of Moloch.

#Nostr is for freedom maxis.
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There is a lot of censorship going on in the UK right now. Social Media companies are being forced to delete posts, deplatform accounts which are deemed to be spreading "misinformation" and "hate speech".

Of course the UK government is the self appointed Ministry of Truth.

If you are an Englishman, please advise your fellow citizens to join Nostr.
We should be using this platform to return people their voices, other than shitposting/cringeposting and being nerds.

Personally, I am in of the opinion that western governments have become too big and wield way too much influence for the level of competence they display. We need to get it through people's head that Bitcoin is how you defund these parasites with dictatorial aspirations.


Self-sovereignty is anti-tyranny and anti-Monopoly. #HODL in #BTC & we starve late stage capitalism & choke the military industrial complex & bury the creature from Jekyll island & blind the eye of Moloch—the most peaceful revolution known to humanity fights back and wins simply by recruiter more and more ₿elievers to hodl the one asset to rule them all.


Don’t shout at the #Bitcoin.

There is no second best crop
👨🏻🌾🌾
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Does #Bitcoin help us see the future before it arrives?

(Cyber)Space Race 2.0 =
Bitcoin Global Hash War™
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I dare you
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When life throws nuts at you, make Reese’s peanut butter cups


The light at the end of the #bitcoin rabbithole tunnel is self-sovereignty


Real talk.

The fiat dollar is Debt backed by Death.

The monopoly of violence monopolizes money in order to perpetuate itself.
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You are more powerful than you think.

But do you actually believe it, anon?

If so, then don’t you dare tell me that same damn old story.

Shut up and show up and take back your glory.


“They gaslight you, they manipulate you, they promote narratives. That's politics. They do it on the left, they do it on the right. The only one not doing that is Robert F Kennedy Jr.”

Woah. Does Joe Rogan finally… get it?
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The code to freedom
in 10 letters:

DCA BTC HODL


"Hard choices, easy life.
Easy choices, hard life."
Jerzy Gregorek

Hard money, easy life.
Easy money, hard life.
#Bitcoin


If only there were a way to choke the military industrial complex to death…
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Fiat is HILARIOUS
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Tucker is such a human boat shoe.


What NPCs will do when #Bitcoin hits $100,000:
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Saving in #Bitcoin is financial Wu Wei:
delayed gratification, grit, patience.
Stay humble & stack sats.
Keep calm & #HODL on.


I completely agree nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle

#Bitcoin is #revolutionary for many reasons but the 3 most important IMO are:

1: Absolute cap on units.

For the first time in history the entire world has #equal access not just to assets, but to assets that have a mathmatically enforced hard cap on their supply. Means Bitcoin can never be #debased by any person or group which prevents #theft through #inflation. Allowing everyone on earth a method to #preserve for their future the value of their contributions to society, without needing to #indebt someone else in the process (like what happens with buying #stocks and #bonds).

2: Connection to #time.

Every 10 min the value of the energy used by the entire #MiningNetwork is converted into Bitcoin. Every 210,000 blocks the amount of BTC produced in 10 min by the mining network gets cut in half.

Remember the value of everything trends toward its marginal cost of production, #FIAT has a marginal cost of production of ZERO which is why all FIAT trends towards a valuation of ZERO over time.

Bitcoin every 4 years raises its marginal cost of production 100% in relation to time. It used to take 10 min to make 50 BTC, then 20 min, then 40 min, then 80 min. Right now it takes 160 min to produce 50 BTC. Since time is the most valuable asset humans have, raising the time-cost of production pressures the value of each coin in the network to double every 4 years relative to Human time and we put more value on our time than anything else.

3: Connection to energy.

In addition to its connection to time, continually more miners compete for continually less coins. This is an organic raising of the cost of production of each coin in relation to cost for the electricity used as a function of market dynamics.

This forms a global unregulated free market trading pair between BTC and Electricity. Pushing the price of electricity down, while pushing the price of BTC in relation to its energy cost up.

The effects this will have on humanity are profound. The more there is of something the lower the cost and the more we can use it freely. Is there a cost to run cold air through a computer to cool down the components? No, because there is so much air that it has no cost. As Bitcoin continues to demand more and more energy, miners will respond to that by seeking out untapped sources of energy. This will overtime expand the availability of cheap energy globally, especially impactful in areas with poor populations and untapped natural energy sources nearby, allowing electricity to get ever closer to a marginal cost of production of ZERO everywhere on earth. Dropping the cost of renewable energy so low that fossil fuels become too expensive to use.

We won't need grid battery storage when so much energy is produced everywhere that energy generation itself becomes decentralized and abundant enough to more than handle the peak demand levels society itself requires even in emergencies.

No longer will #CarbonCapture technology or water #desalinization be prohibitively expensive. Allowing us to clean our atmosphere and provide clean water for everyone.

Considering all of this, I believe Bitcoin is the first technology that realistically gives us a way to become a #Kardashev level 1 Civilization.

As this transition to a world of free energy occurs, everyone who holds Bitcoin benefits from this shift in value and sees the value of their savings continually go up with the entire network in relation to the time and energy needed to produce new coins, which helps pull people out of poverty and increase global prosperity.

Bitcoin's effects on society will in the future lead to it being considered the greatest technology humanity has ever created. Bitcoin is freedom. Bitcoin is prosperity. Bitcoin is abundance. Bitcoin is the secured #SavingsAccount of all of humanity combined. We are privileged to be alive during it's existence.


All fiat assets are being depreciated and everyone knows it.

For the first time in history, we the people built an alternative: #Bitcoin. A global, decentralized money owned by everyone. An open-source exit door.

This will never happen again. Don't look back with any regrets.
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#Bitcoin is an IQ test for autodidacts, libertarians, cypherpunks, contrarians, and antidisestablishmentarians.


The craziest thing about the #Bitcoin rabbithole is once you get deep enough, you begin to see the future before it happens…

Got #Bitcoin?
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Is mom’s spaghetti on your shirt already?


A liquid coconut bowling ball?


Thanks to Steve Jobs and the iMonolith, every chimp on Earth now has a front row seat to Plato’s cave anytime


Debt is not free anymore.

And only #Bitcoin is loud enough to break the conspiracy of silence between federal usury, seigniorage, inflation, and silent taxation without representation.


“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”


The Federal Reserve is not federal and it’s not a reserve.

#DefundTheFED


#iykyk nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m #🐂

https://x.com/saylor/status/1814271028928925782?s=46&t=ZxXljqUY-bKEkSSUKFBj3w
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Onwards and upwards, comrade.
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What if all it takes to serve cold hard revenge to late stage Moloch, the creature from Jekyll Island, is to #HODL #BTC & let it gradually (if not suddenly) starve to death? ☠


If questions are the most important currency we have, then blockchain is the most valuable answer.


Isn’t it weird how if you divide infinity by 21 million, gradually and then suddenly, money starts to equal energy?


questions are the most important currency we have


What if a single, independent, open-source algorithm like #Bitcoin’s blockchain could execute p2p global payments, public ledgers, and monetary fiscal policy better than the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Treasury combined?


nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m spreading the word about #nostr
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#Bitcoin finally reveals to humanity that there is more to life than death and taxes.


#HODLing #BTC is already a universal act of nonviolent protest that starves the military industrial complex & the seigniorage usury complex because anti-consumption is the only sly roundabout civil disobedience that they can’t stop. We conscientiously object to late stage banking insofar as we opt into consensual, peaceful P2P open source money.

If we uphodl #Bitcoin as the global reserve asset, then we would finally remove the most toxic incentive for forever fiat wars and the tragedy of the commons because securing & protecting energy & information would instead become the universal priority.

But it may even go one step further than that because even the monopoly of violence claimed by the State in order to enforce fiat monopoly money can now be called into question: if the government only needed arms & militias to protect its gold reserves, but #BTC is digital gold that can protect itself, does cryptographic softpower obviate the State’s claim to the monopoly of violence on a global geopolitical stage and, given this paradigm shift in the logic of violence (@JasonPLowery), how/if does that reframe our 2nd Amendment rights on a personal civil liberties level?

Are we ready to talk about how #Bitcoin is ready to change everything?
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Can Bitcoin help end wars and bring world peace?

This investigation into the petrodollar system is the best evidence I've seen for why this might be the case

Read this conclusion, at least, and start to think about what the world would look like if the reserve currency and currency needed to buy oil wasn't owned by one country but rather was an open, neutral, decentralized currency

This would be good for the world and, critically, good for America as we would focus our incredible potential and resources on progress instead of blowing people up

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https://capitalaspower.com/2024/06/noble-follow-the-money-the-political-economy-of-petrodollar-accumulation-and-recycling/


“#Bitcoin is the singularity where science collides with economics.”
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Triple-entry bookkeeping on the #blockchain will forever mark the advent where economics transitioned from being a soft science to becoming a hard science.

Platonic money breaks the history of economics on January 2009 into a new time era signature: BBS & ABS.

Before the Bitcoin Standard.
After the Bitcoin Standard.


studying #Bitcoin means studying:

⏳ history
💵 finance
📈 economics
🏦 government
💻 computer science
🧮 mathematics
🔋 energy
🌍 geopolitics
📚 philosophy
♟ game theory
🏙 sociology
💡 critical thinking
🕊 human rights

knowledge is a lifelong pursuit ⚡🕳
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#BitcoinTwitter
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Your first $100,000 is the hardest. Your first #Bitcoin is the easiest.


I love overlaying information.

Enjoy.

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Someone just sent me this as a DM

Beautiful! And true. The others will find their way ✌

“I use Primal as a #bitcoin wallet for my 10-year-old son. He’s too young to sign up for Strike (or any KYC platform). He’s too young to open a bank account. He’s not interested in paper money. He wants digital money so he can buy game stuff online. I pay him his allowance in bitcoin to his Primal account. He doesn’t have to send me an invoice, I just zap him $50 or whatever. Then if he wants to spend on a game, he can request a purchase through the apple App Store, i get a notification first from apple, then i get a notification from Strike saying that he zapped me $5 to cover the cost of the purchase. It’s perfect for someone his age. I couldn’t do this with cash app, PayPal, a credit card, a bank account. NOSTR + Bitcoin is the future. Some of us are living here now. The others will find their way.”


(A2) This brilliant explanation of #Bitcoin ’s hash function protocol by @3blue1brown may help put the question in perspective.

“So even if you were to have your GPU packed with a ‘kilogoogle per person multiplanetary giga-gilactic’ computer guessing numbers for 37 times the age of the universe it would only have a 1 out of of 4 billion chance of running the hash that happens to break a given protocol.”

TL;DR: #BTC  is unbreakable as the new gold standard for cryptography and cybersecurity because it’s backed by encoded math, game theory, and the laws of thermodynamics.
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(Q1) What happens if a mathematician inverts the SHA-256 hash function?

(A1) Let’s steelman the question for the sake of argument. Could a quantum or AGI computer break, hack, overcome, or invert the SHA-256 has function? Here’s my go-to answer:

“These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.”

TL;DR: Even if a quantum computer could theoretically hack/invert the hash function or overcome the digital computation constraint, nothing can physically bypass the energy constraint also required by the worldwide electrical grid to break/fork the blockchain network. That would violate the laws of thermodynamics. With #Bitcoin , your money is secured by the laws of the universe.


All I can say is #Bitcoin ’s timechain is perhaps the only thing left that can save humanity from itself — be it systemic deceit, theft, inflation, debt, debasement, climate disaster, and war.

Without an immutable safe cyberspace for the data commons, everything not encrypted & enshrined on the ₿lockchain will inevitably rot to AI slop or processed grey goo Bullshit.

Without the positive externality of incentivizing stranded, excessive, lost, or toxic energy capture & redistribution, the electrical grid will be unable to serve as humanity’s lifeboat.

Culture 3.0, whatever that finally looks like, ought to be rooted in the right to consent, privacy, private property, free speech, contentious objection, self-defense, & censorship resistance if it ever hopes to become an infinite game.

But these are just the faint whisperings I hear from the mama matrix most mysterious…

🍄


Even Kurt Vonnegut knew that fiat was, is, and will always be a cult.

"In nonsense is strength."
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The LLM-generated “For You” headlines on X will be perfect chapter titles for future financial textbooks #Bitcoin
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Late stage fiat: when the war machine and unfettered debt expansion compete to see who can grow more exponentially.
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Military industrial complex vs seigniorage usury complex


I Pluribus Fuckem 🖕


Self-sovereignty is anti-tyranny and anti-monopoly.

₿reak the eye of Moloch.
#HODL #Bitcoin
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Our ideas about money are completely backward.

Money is NOT real wealth

When we understand that, it becomes clear how absurd modern economic thought really is…
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“Money is a record keeping system.”

The history of civilization in a six word story.

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#Bitcoin has no Bullshit.
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June 9th marks the end of the petrodollar


“With Bitcoin’s IRR at 44% over the last 14 years, Bitcoin is repricing everything else.”
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Even Beethoven knew #Bitcoin’s cycle was universal natural law.
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nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a Using my free will to trying nostr out ;)

@Jack should opt into this open source black box sooner rather than later too
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Changing the rules of Bitcoin is like changing the rules of chess.

You can absolutely do it but you’ll only be playing with yourself.
 - nostr:npub1ftrnkvl0hdud65yacyvcn6sx2w7lfztdp2957wp344dcc9s3yf8qm56ykf

#BitcoinTwitter
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Simone Weil


Credit:
https://josie.io/products/the-people


Self-transcendence is an overlooked concept that was added to Abraham Maslow's original hierarchy of needs later in his life, towards the end of his career.

“Transcendence refers to the very highest and most inclusive or holistic levels of human consciousness, behaving and relating, as ends rather than means, to oneself, to significant others, to human beings in general, to other species, to nature, and to the cosmos.
***
Without the transcendent and the transpersonal, we get sick, violent, and nihilistic, or else hopeless and apathetic. We need something ‘bigger than we are’ to be awed by and to commit ourselves to in a new, naturalistic, empirical, non-churchly sense, perhaps as Thoreau and Whitman, William James and John Dewey did.
***
That is, the greatest attainment of identity, autonomy, or selfhood is itself simultaneously a transcending of itself, a going beyond and above selfhood. The person can then become egoless.”

Self-sovereignty is self-transcendence.

Insofar as belief & investment in #Bitcoin’s network lowers time preference, delays gratification, pushes out the collective horizon, streamlines global energy distribution, safeguards the data commons, cultivates a pragmatic infinite mindset, futureproofs the economy from broken incentives & incentives humanity away from the tragedy of the commons, then to #HODL #BTC is to uphold an open source commonwealth of the people, by the people, for the people.

To #HODL #BTC is a permissionless, supererogatory civil liberty & responsibility. First person autonomy.

To #HODL #BTC is to participate in the distribution of freedom for all.

We are Satoshi.
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This is why separation of Church and State and Money is more important than ever.

#Bitcoin
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#Bitcoin is an open source value network without need for a CEO, committee, corporation, conglomerate, congress, court, cartel, church, cult, cult of personality, conspiracy, or counter-party to oversee it. A game played by rules not rulers.

#Bitcoin is silent FU money that lets you opt-out of bankrolling the endless cycle of blood debts for forever fiat wars, endless seigniorage & institutional usury. A safe haven run by consensus not coercion.

#Bitcoin’s blockchain is an invisible, universal open source solution for a hidden, perpetual, pervasive problem — the open secret of legal counterfeiting & doublespending by the FED & US government and the forced reappropriation of your time & energy. A sly roundabout way that they can’t stop.

To #HODL #BTC is to exercise financial wu wei. Satoshi gifted us the most peaceful form of protest of all time. With elegant diplomatic innovation, anyone can now join the open source re₿ellion by choosing blockchain not bullets.

Just #HODL it.
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#Bitcoin doesn't need Michael Saylor or Jack Dorsey or Donald Trump to tick tock, next block.

#Bitcoin has died & come back to life more times than Jesus Christ.

#BTC is anti-fragile
#BTC is manifest destiny
#BTC is inevitable
#BTC is Telos + Logos
#BTC is Chronos X Kairos

“In the Beginning, There was the Ratio & the Ratio was with Gödel”

The arc of the blockchain is long but it bends toward self-sovereignty.


Better get some just in case “absolute scarcity” beats “absolutely nothing”

“On March 15, 2020, the @federalreserve reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020.”

₿ = ∞/21M > $ = ∞/0

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“Any successful replacement of the #Bitcoin blockchain will forever undermine the credibility of any successor.”

We should call this something. Finney’s failsafe. Finney’s first mover principle. Finney’s anti-reboot rule.

Because only #BTC  is immune from a replacement, reboot, or successor.
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i pledge allegiance to the longest blockchain of the nakamoto consesus mechanism and to the difficulty-adjustment for which it ticks, one network, under SHA-256, immutable, with sovereignty and justice for all


#BITCOIN & #PIZZA 🍕 https://image.nostr.build/4d9b6a47a7b87ad261f8ecac67e4f55b706ed4e70e863e5bcd5592b2669f3730.jpg


#Bitcoin is a three body solution at the crux of triple-entry accounting that solves for the double-spending problem.

♻A separation of powers between (1) a distributed timechain server network, (2) the Nakamoto Consensus & (3) Clausius’ first principle of thermodynamics.

⚖The blockchain is a self-sustaining triangulation of this open source game of checks & balances.
***

⏳Timechain = proof of work + longest arrow of entropy

🧾Triple-entry accounting = hash power + laws of thermodynamics

⚡Time is money = Money is energy + Energy is time
***
“Energy is matter and matter is energy. What is property? Property is economic matter. What is money? Money is economic energy. What is Bitcoin? It is digital money, property and energy.” nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m

#Bitcoin is platonic money backed by time, code & math serving as the pure price signal for capitalized, monetized energy & the coordinated universal clock for the macroeconomy.
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Not everyone believes in God.
Not everyone believes in the Bible or the Koran or the Talmud.

Not everyone believes in Death or Love or democracy or humanity or even reality. Not everyone believes your conspiracy theory. Not everyone believes in equal rights, human rights, human dignity or a universal spark of divinity that secures individuality.

But everyone believes in money.
Money is the greatest story ever told.

And money is a game and if you don’t know how that game is being played, you are being played.

That’s why a Good Samaritan white hat coder gave us a better game to help expose the greatest confidence trick of all time being played by the FED.

We are all Satoshi.
We are all the underdog.
We the people deserve self-sovereignty with a people of the people, by the people, for the people.

#Bitcoin is going to break the illusion of this broken game.
#BTC is going to break everything that is already broken.
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Our governments don’t have a revenue problem but a spending one.

Q. Why do governments tax citizens ad absurdum when they can just print money ad infinitum?

A. Because the FED & the IRS are nothing more than bureaucratic black boxes used to propagate inflation & taxation to pay off debts for fiat forever wars, historic seigniorage & institutional usury. Quantitative easing washes out any tax inequalities. Money is broken. Fiat is fucked. Make it make sense.

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Gold: Stars can print money.
Fiat: States can print money.
Crypto: Everyone can print money.
#BTC: Nobody can print money.


Hell yes. #Bitcoin can be the mother lode of a nation’s public commonwealth. Self-sovereignty is anti-monopoly ✊


📜#Bitcoin is the printing press 2.0 for allowing universal P2P exchange of open source code.

🧭#Bitcoin is a financial compass 2.0 by zeroing in on a pure price signal for capitalized, monetized energy.

💣#Bitcoin is gunpowder 2.0 by projecting power as stored & secured potential energy that can defend itself.

🥇#Bitcoin is gold 2.0 as the hardest, soundest, most objective database of value exchange & reserves across both time & space.
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Imagine a decentralized, apolitical, censorship resistant form of money that cannot be debased, defaulted, or dispossessed & built on a transparent monetary policy, a database consensus mechanism, and a property protection protocol backed by entropy itself.

#Bitcoin  is the greatest form of non-violent protest ever invented because anyone & everyone willing to be part of the Great Demonetization can. #Bitcoin slowly bleeds out the military industrial complex.
#Bitcoin  buys us peace of mind.
#HODL the change you want to see in the world.


Game theory flywheel for #Bitcoin:

Debasing currency + 0% FED rate + 0% reserve requirement → Inflation → rise FED rate to highest ever → bonds drop → banks become insolvent + flight to quality → BTC ETF approval → tradFi, retail, commercial, sovereign wealth, treasuries, pensions, gradually, suddenly…
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“On March 15, 2020, the Federal Reserve reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020.”

Paper, meet Nothing. Nothing, meet paper.

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#Bitcoin  is more American than the US Dollar
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"The United States has attained the level of freedom that it has (or did have) due to the governance structure that the Founders set up, which was designed with embedded gridlock between the three branches of government so that it would be hard to change things. Because when governments change things, it's usually at the detriment of the individual and their sovereignty. Gridlock is what the framers believed would be the main protection of the rights of the individual. Not subject to a democratic vote.

If it was gridlock by design and the primary protections in place were meant to prevent the centralization of power under any of the three branches, the complete centralization of the money supply is the single greatest force undermining the intended structure. With the ability to print money at will allows the government to fund itself via unfettered debt expansion functionally funded by the Federal Reserve. The framers intended for the funding of government to be by the consent of the governed principally through taxation or otherwise actually paid for by the public via real money. Not something that can be created ex nihilo."

#Bitcoin is a game theoretical separation of powers, a checks-and-balance system between coders, miners, and users, none of whom can control it. #BTC is open source money of the people, by the people, for the people.


"In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." Marx

Private property is a human right. Inflation, debt, bailouts, asset seizure, and institutional usury are violations of this human right by governments stealing our time and energy, standing behind the “barrel of the gun”. This is how the monopoly of violence perpetuates Monopoly money.

No private property = no ownership = no responsibility = no liberty. #Bitcoin is self-sovereignty. Opt out of war, opt out of broken money, opt out of fiat.


#Bitcoin is the largest humanitarian movement to expose the greatest con of all time—the confidence trick of gaslighting the public into paying off debts of the military industrial complex & legacy seigniorage in perpetuity.

Opt out of fiat.
Opt out of forever wars.
Opt out of institutional usury.
Opt out of bankrolling bailouts.
Opt out of hyperinflation without representation.
Just #HODL it


Money can be based on rules, not rulers. Tyrannies throughout history prove again & again that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Broken money, broken incentives, broken system, broke people.

The executive, legislative & judicial branches can stay but the 4th branch of government can & should be replaced by a reserve currency commonwealth system based on an open source money, backed by an open source network, secured by an open energy bounty program, kept in check by a separation of powers between miners, coders & users exploitable by no one, for an open market place without walls, accessible anytime, anywhere to anyone.

#EndTheFed
#FixTheMoneyFixTheWorld
#HODL the change you want to see in the world


🔄 Game theory flywheel 🔄
Debasing currency + 0% FED rate + 0% reserve requirement → Inflation → rise FED rate to highest ever → bonds drop → banks become insolvent + flight to quality → BTC ETF approval → tradFi, retail, commercial, treasuries, sovereign wealth, public pensions, gradually, then suddenly…
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https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/1794425232217756156?s=46&t=ZxXljqUY-bKEkSSUKFBj3w

The American Dream died the day the dollar menu died


Halving Day 2024
State of the Union

I vote with my dollar.
I vote for proof of my work.
I vote to verify, not trust.
I vote for rules, not rulers.
I vote to save money.
I vote to make money better.
I vote to make a difference.
I vote to make war unaffordable.
I vote to fix the money.
I vote to fix the world.
I vote for tick tock, next block.
I vote for distributed freedom.
I vote for the separation of money and State.
I vote against theft by inflation.
I vote against federal usury.
I vote against rent-seeking.
I vote against the military-industrial complex and bank bailouts and absolute power that corrupts absolutely with a sly roundabout way that they can’t stop.
Welcome to civil disobedience 3.0 in the Age of Acceleration where the debt is made up and the numbers don’t matter.
Money is NOT the root of all evil.
Printing money ad Infinitum is. With great easy power comes no accountability. Zero responsibility.
Silent Taxation without representation.
Break the control and you stop war.
From now on, I exercise my 1st Amendment right for freedom of speech and conscience with every dollar saved in Bitcoin serving as a vote of no confidence against all the capital-B Bullshit that happens over at the 4th branch of the government.
We the people want to end the FED.
We the people want to save in the people’s money — an energy commodity backed by absolute scarcity, a public ledger guided by immutable natural law, and the largest open network bounded by game theory in the world. A universal clock written in code that can’t be changed, can’t be corrupted, can’t be interrupted, can’t be stopped. Savings that are accessible to all.
Money by the people, of the people, for the people.
We the people have decided to break the monopoly over money and break up Monopoly money.
We the people believe #Bitcoin is going to break what’s already broken.
We the people have a message for the final boss of late stage capitalism:

Off. With. His. Head.

#Death2Moloch
#InCodeWeTrust
#TickTockNextBlock
#hodloncomrades
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