After using #Nostr for several weeks, one thing that has taken me by surprise is how there are very liberal and very conservative people on here, and yet they both share a sense of community and don't spend all day posting content against each other. Despite differences in political persuasion, they find common ground on here.

Now that I've seen this, I better understand how dangerous centralized control of social media is -- where algorithms continuously drive inflammatory content to users to keep them addicted to the platform. I find it ironic that a censorship-resistant platform is largely devoid of much of the inflammatory content that's present on censorable social media. One may have thought the opposite would be the case.


Nostriches, I need your help.

Every tweet I put out on X that has the word “substack” in it, I get crickets. Roughly 10% of the engagement of when I don’t!

I put together a newsletter format of my work recently. I did it because hyperbitcoinization requires a narrative shift in bitcoin and the environment.

There is $23Trillion in ESG investment funds that is getting curious about bitcoin right now. But unless they have good data on why Bitcoin is positive for the environment they can’t invest. If just 1% of these funds got deployed into bitcoin it would life Bitcoin’s market cap to 3x its current level.

So anything you can do here to spread the word freely without an algorithm suppressing content would help a lot, and also be a victory for Nostr

The newsletter is short, punchy, lots of pretty charts, free, and made to be shared by non-bitcoiners to help orangepill them.

Please subscribe, share on Nostr and encourage others to share and subscribe too.

🫡
DSB

https://danielbatten.substack.com/p/issue-002-all-time-highs?r=26zy4u


Helping to correct what I was a part of and learned. It’s not about Twitter. It’s about the corporate incentives.

A company can’t own the protocol, platform, and interface all in one. The protocol layer must be free.


When you lose weight by burning fat, where does the fat go? How does it get out? Most people think we sweat it out, but no: we **breathe** it out.

Your body uses carbohydrates for energy, and when you dont eat enough, your body burns fat. Fat is stored as triglycerides, which are made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen and metabolized into carbon dioxide and water. When you lose 1kg of weight, you literally breathed out 840g of weight as CO2. The remaining 160g turns into H2O and is peed out.

GM.


Some thoughts:

1) It never ceases to amaze me: We love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

2) Life is simply history repeating itself. What’s new and scary now will be old and familiar tomorrow.

3) Media seeks profit so they recreate and inflate reality by constantly focusing on sensational and negative topics to attract your attention.

4) TIME is your greatest commodity.

5) There is no future, nor past. There is only now. If we don’t enjoy the present moment, we might regret it bc it’s all we truly have. Be present.


Oh, oh..?


nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze now has a hashrate over 400 Ph/s.


We need Rudy Havenstein on #nostr

Old mate posts some bangers https://i.nostr.build/vyo7.jpg


LOL

https://image.nostr.build/e2bb5ec010030850fe69582b08fbf7a5a26b451dc30a14d088ea14dfb5b28201.jpg


NEARLY EVERY BILLIONAIRE IN THE WORLD IS SHORT BITCOIN.

BILLIONAIRE FOMO DOES NOT START UNTIL $100K. BUCKLE UP.


WE ARE SO EARLY THAT GOLD BUGS THINK GOLD IS TRADING AT AN ALL TIME HIGH WHILE WE DRINK THEIR MILKSHAKE.

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


🧡 FROM ONE OF OUR GROUP CHAT:

“Please forgive me for bothering you bro, but I’m a bit in my feelings. I got into CRYPTO in May of 21 and bought a little #bitcoin at 50k and didn’t take it too serious. It was expensive, I didn’t take it serious. Bought some Doge and cardano. Then I learned, matured and became a raging Bitcoin bull. I bought consistently at 30k and all the way down and held through my first bear market. It was so long and tough. It’s about the mission and revolution, not the money, BUT, coming out of the other side of the bear feels surreal. I’m sitting here watching these green candles in Dec of 23 in disbelief. I have had my emotions tested, regulatory fud, Celsius and FTX fud of 2022, but I held on and it was hard. Anyway, I just wanted to tell somebody and briefly share my journey. I’ve been poor all my life, worked my ass off and felt like I’ve been going nowhere. This is nuts. :-) The BTC rabbit hole has changed my life and taught me about the world I live in that I blindly never saw before, wondering why things were the way they were, seeing all of the greed and incentive misalignment etc. I pay attention now. Lol”


Daily Dollar Cost Averaging from 1/1/2020:

#Bitcoin : +106%
Nasdaq: +28%
S&P 500: +18%
Gold: +16%
U.S. Treasury Bonds: -20%
https://m.primal.net/HSRr.jpg


Agree with nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf almost entirely except on one small point - forget the noose, bring back the guillotine #BBTG https://v.nostr.build/vxja.mp4


WTF? LOL! 😂


On Nov 14 the Human Rights Foundation will launch its CBDC Tracker at the National Press Club in Washington, DC

The Tracker will go online for the first time, providing the public with a resource to examine the progress and risks of CBDC implementation worldwide

Like paper dollars or euros, CBDCs are liabilities of central banks

Unlike paper dollars or euros, CBDCs do not offer the privacy protections, neutrality, or finality of cash

Virtually all money today is already digital, but it is typically issued and controlled by private banks and fintech companies, even in dictatorships like China

When consumers use a credit card, spending is at the discretion of the corporation that issued the card

When consumers deposit money into their bank accounts, their funds are liabilities of the bank

CBDCs are an effort to:

1) Replace paper cash with government-issued, government controlled digital credits

2) Reduce the power of private banks

3) Expand state control over the economy

Paper cash doesn’t require identification, can be used by anyone with no discrimination, and cannot be easily tracked

As such, cash is a daily tool of human rights activists, dissidents, and civil society, especially under authoritarian regimes

CBDCs stand to potentially phase out this tool for human rights defenders, making them entirely reliant on currency that is surveilled and easily frozen and censored

Unlike cash, CBDCs can require ID, have expiration dates, be remotely
frozen, and abide by blacklists

HRF believes CBDCs pose a significant threat to human rights work worldwide, especially for people living under tyranny

More than 100 countries are researching CBDCs, while more than 20 have pilots, and a handful of governments have already launched some kind of retail product

Russia, India, the EU, the US, Brazil, and other major governments
have all signaled intent to pursue CBDC projects

HRF considers it important to track these activities and document what risk they pose to human rights

We are pleased to be working with the Bitcoin Policy Institute to launch the CBDC Tracker at the National Press Club in Washington at 10:00am ET on November 14th

We are excited to share the work of the project authors: Nick Anthony, Janine Roem, and Matthew Mezinskis

If you would like to learn more about the project or RSVP to the launch event, please contact nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk

We look forward to sharing the resource with all of you on Nov 14

https://cbdchumanrights.org/ https://image.nostr.build/5dcb01114749a54fb356f344bd20d936351cd18d12b3e7ab15c1a0fdcfd9a605.jpg


Women on Nostr
#womeninnostr
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Create what you want you want to see/change in this world. But don’t create shit. Put good things out in this world. Leave your mark. Make the world a better place. nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz https://image.nostr.build/b6d0efdda0b2f087f43f444a40b752bcf90be3c1d019b953a8bcef39674d5f42.jpg

"Create what you want you want to see/change in this world. But don’t create shit. Put good things out in this world. Leave your mark. Make the world a better place. nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz https://image.nostr.build/b6d0efdda0b2f087f43f444a40b752bcf90be3c1d019b953a8bcef39674d5f42.jp"

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This is centrally controlled capitalism. The idea is a sustained expansion.

"This is centrally controlled capitalism."

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@Edward Snowden 🫂


@Snowden 🫂


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Made a great presantaion @nostrasia


GM #plebchain & #nostriches

https://video.nostr.build/9f9e5ddc0f75f19f5ee93757df8c830b451d70608f5444b9db974d7d180650f0.mp4


Another masterpiece by nostr:npub1j4u5gjzjyggr3h96x3gjy4akdgwxuk7mgvumv72gym2qyje7fn5s47d6x9.
Zaps forwarded.
 https://video.nostr.build/ef83433e1eb982c5a5edcd1a20bc32bb9e6e710774969305afe9e661204b010f.mp4


The #Nostrasia Unconference Links

Zap.Stream: https://w3.do/Mw6t5_-H

Schedule: https://nostr.world/tracks/agenda/index.html

YouTube
Main stage: https://www.youtube.com/live/gOIZMMvHSZw
Workshop stage: https://www.youtube.com/live/_WyjOsrol4w


Great idea!


The fact that Elon Musk's title is "Technoking" and Jack Dorsey's title is "Block Head", speaks volumes.

One is about ego, and one is not. But more importantly we can see the difference in their actions more than titles from there.

Elon wants to build Twitter or the shitty name "X" into the next WeChat, with himself as the leader. He has literally said this. I used to be able to report bots on Twitter easily for many years, but now I have to show a drivers' ID to report someone that copies my persona even as a 600k following paid blue check, and so I don't bother anymore, and therefore bots proliferate. And if you don't pay for reach, you get devalued. Only in the past few months have I had to show my ID to report my countless bot copiers if I want to report them on Twitter/X. And so their rate of removal has decreased. If my Nym differs a bit from my name, well LET'S FILE SOME TPS REPORTS!!!! (which wasn't previously the case). And so as bots proliferate, and as Musk fails to contain bots as he promised he would and bragged about with memes, he will instead reference his own self-created bot problem as a reason to require even more ID requirements and try to build his US version of the Chinese Communist Party WeChat app. This is exactly what governments do. In my professional opinion, after careful consideration, Elon Musk can ::check notes::  politely go fuck himself, and those who worship him should reconsider what exactly they show blind obedience toward.

Meanwhile, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m helps improve the Bitcoin network and the Nostr network and has put capital into them in various ways, and Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader. The fact that Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader, is specifically why Jack puts time and capital into them. He funds many different companies, and for bitcoin, Cash App has been among the networks to incorporate Lightning early. Yes, Cash App deals with domestic compliance issues. But they are trying, and they are early. Their network can connect to many others, like an email provider using SMTP to connect to many others. They're open, they're trying. And now they are making Bitkey, which helps with self custody. They're certainly not a directional enemy of freedom in the way that Twitter/X has been.

Companies that incorporate open networks with various levels of compliance trump companies that purposely don't adopt open networks and instead push new ID requirements, in my book.

+10 Jack
-10 Elon
Any day of the week.


Mainstream media are extremely dangerous to our democracy. They are dominated by a few who follow a centralised script and manipulate billions of people every single day. https://video.nostr.build/45f500a7a64804b5545e18a8a7bb6c5fd8238cac89198a7bc31d25850483992f.mp4


Congratulations! Well done.


Good morning!


Please repost this if you want nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m to check his DMs and come on the Bitcoin Matrix podcast to talk about 😌bitcoin, nostr, freedom of speech and privacy.


Amethyst?