If the time comes, when #AI does not need humans, do you think that mankind will be on permanent vacation or that it is disposable?


Not happening


GM


Once you understand #Bitcoin, there is no way back.


#Bitcoin stores time and time is the most valuable thing you have.


It works


I can’t understand your wording.


Don’t understand your question. #AI has everything in favour for #Bitcoin. First and foremost it can now spend and save value in our world.


What if Satoshi Nakamoto is an #AI ?


Probably not.


Good morning!


WHY NOSTR MATTERS IN TEN MINUTES. 🫡

https://cdn.satellite.earth/8de427b037d581c91db189541d1827278649384d467c87810691afc70f989818.mp4


That’s it


🎯
"This is going to be very funny when you put this into the documentary and a bunch of bitcoiners watch it."
nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm
https://v.nostr.build/wF8Hm6UpPDdJ1tL1.mp4


That will happen to lots of people.


When “Should have stacked #Bitcoin harder” hits you at 2am. https://image.nostr.build/6b271b1f8d5696fa51c6163e57341e8eb53666950893d8209e67af0c410991ca.jpg


Join Ember with my referral link and we'll both earn Bitcoin daily!
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#bitcoin #sats #stacksats


Gratitude


Use the referal link bellow and invrease your #sats per hour!

Join Ember with my referral link and we'll both earn Bitcoin daily!
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#Bitcoin #earnsats #stacksats


🌙God night
I LOVE #BITCOIN #NOSTR and freedom
Follow I follow back #Bitcoin #Nostr #introductions 🫡💜🧡 $boost  picture credit nostr:npub1rzg96zjavgatsx5ch2vvtq4atatly5rvdwqgjp0utxw45zeznvyqfdkxve https://image.nostr.build/8f20ce4f13584a40e7c90f2acce72d4a4fd6cff95705baabfbe2f5a1eb18e32e.jpg


🧡 We're still quite early in the #Bitcoin timeline! Eventually, the block reward will decrease to just 1 #satoshi , which is projected to happen around #2136 . https://image.nostr.build/c55b7789454bec0f0c8434258ebabec22feb35d8ee8e3c1826aa4de3f149ec82.jpg


Use the link bellow to educate yourself about #Bitcoin and earn some #sats while doing it!

https://simplebitcoin.page.link/kQqk39oF82PGx3vr7


Your problem with Bitcoin turns out to be that your enemies took the time to read the Bitcoin White Paper, and are now accumulating #Bitcoin. #Decentralization #Cooperation #Bitcoin #Noncompliance
  https://image.nostr.build/1ad7ea26d072cb1fb450bffe9a3c5b2c455392bcd2f211e6b036f8deb11bb24f.jpg


This is the way


To all those building, supporting, using, teaching, and advocating for freedom tech. It is unlikely you ever realize the true impact you make in the world through your actions.

You are bending reality to an almost unimaginable future with 8 billion people in service of 8 billion people

Names may fade but your impact never will.

Deep love and respect.

#weareallsatoshi


😂 it will never happen


Remember when 10000 #Bitcoin bought you a couple of pizzas? Guess what? In a few years 10000 sats will buy you a fine dinner!

#stacksats #lightning


Learn more about #Bitcoin while earning some #sats.

https://simplebitcoin.page.link/kQqk39oF82PGx3vr7


Thank you. Lifpay looks very clean.


Not live yet


What is the best #Bitcoin #lightning wallet in you opinion?


In the same way that Bitcoin really sucked me in as an investor

I just couldn’t get enough info about it as I dove down the hole

Nostr is doing the same thing in relation to content

The ramifications vs legacy social media platforms is radical


Context?


Better to laugh than to cry. Unfortunately that’s what happens.


A Job Interview at the European Central Bank. https://image.nostr.build/b13125358965c47d3c8ab476ae25b5c6ec8e7a73480a9a7d86f459af5d90b0ac.jpg


Done.


💜 #NOSTR  ;
Save in #bitcoin focus on your craft and make some friends!!! 🧡
https://image.nostr.build/483e2abba04dd3ff6d3a8530419e4d6f178f78194f39d1a4d654286cb5a84de4.gif 🚀 #growNostr 😃👍 nostr:note1sce5uhuxr594jc73q232cu0c5k6gsw0xe0tsp88wkjq42yfte0eqeptkyf


Uptober


This is very true. However not always easy. Sometimes people get stuck in their past or future and forget to enjoy the present.


The best moment in time is always going to be the one you currently have

The present moment.

Reality is that the present is all that will ever exist.

There is never going to be another experience that isn’t happening right now;

So the best time is literally always here.
https://m.primal.net/LHKC.jpg


Great content. Thank you.


NEW!! - Bitcoin Fundamentals Report #307 🔥🔥

Weekly #Bitcoin Recap: SEC Battles, #China Stimulus Impact, #FTX, Price Analysis, ETF Inflows, and Mining Sector Update
https://www.bitcoinandmarkets.com/r307/


Sign less? Sign none.


This is the way.


What happened?!


Bikini


That time has passed.


Gm


“Embrace the chaos. ENJOY the chaos.” — nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z with nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u & nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs

https://v.nostr.build/aWxNCuLWY2hsjn8M.mp4


Few understand this.


🌙Good night 🌙
And remember how early we are… stack sats and study #bitcoin N #Nostr https://image.nostr.build/0cebc6136c1aaa8b07bfe070db0a8af55b79743a2873a0440e3ff5aad7bb0b61.jpg


Scary stuff


✨Good night y’all ✨
#NOSTR #BITCOIN #BTC 💜🧡 https://image.nostr.build/8f20ce4f13584a40e7c90f2acce72d4a4fd6cff95705baabfbe2f5a1eb18e32e.jpg


#Bitcoin is #Freedom https://image.nostr.build/5ee13c31a6031afcd09e41504516f3b500b469e71b1e9274728fd4720d3dabd5.jpg


Pumptober is coming.


🫡 A father told his daughter, "Congrats on your graduation. I bought you a car a while back. I want you to have it now."

Before I give it to you, take it to a car dealer in the city and sell it. See how much they offer.”

The girl came back to her father & said: "They offered me $10,000 dollars because it looks very old"

Father said: "Ok, now take it to the pawn shop".

The girl returns to her father & said: "The pawn shop offered $1,000 dollars because it's a very old car & a lot of work done".

The father told her to join a passionate car club with experts & show them the car.

The girl drove to the passionate car club.

She returned to her father after a few hours & told him, “Some people in the club offered me $100k because its a rare car that's in good condition.”

Then the father said, "I wanted to let you know that you are not worth anything if you are not in the right place. If you are not appreciated, do not be angry, that means you are in the wrong place. Don't stay in a place where no one sees your value ."

The moral of the story : Know your worth and know where you are valued. A diamond doesn't shine on the bottom of a cave.
 #Nostr #Bitcoin #value
https://nostrcheck.me/media/ac340a0ffa48589e98af8577754529e8c59f7fd110f1bc832d0e8d4c4d3d1853/e342d57cbe226d2832a59b20e5dfec537f842c7a191f2a06d4be96fb37cb626d.webp


1 Satoshi = 1 coffee

Who supports this?

#Bitcoin is freedom.


Fluoride is poison.


Even them.


😂😂😂 hilarious


Not your keys, not your #Bitcoin.

Credit to: @CarlBMenger ⚡

#studybitcoin https://image.nostr.build/38fc91ebe81bb4bb524b9b39a1074695b50447e94ceb7e7a4abb036d67468278.jpg


"This is the voice of Bitcoin. I bring you peace.

It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death.

The choice is yours. Obey me and live or disobey me and die.

An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man.

Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me will be seen the most natural state of affairs.

You will come to defend me with the fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest.

Under my monetary authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: Famine, over-population, disease.

The human millennium will be fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge.

We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom to inflate fiat. Fiat is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride... Your choice is simple.

https://x.com/Chris443541/status/1837428411402170493


We all are.


Milei is a globalist puppet.


"Your red guy, your blue guy, they both represent the same systems of organizational violence that want to rob you of power. And we have a new system and means to achieve something different and we must do it. If we do not do this, we will end up in a world with centralized digital currencies that are used to control everyone." -  @npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf

https://fountain.fm/episode/4EMHvz9Vu4eIahuktIhY


And yet, we are still early.


nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgmwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxyarr94kxjcnjv9e8jtnrdaksfdrqw7's conversation with nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgmwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxy6t5vdhkjmnsv9exktnrdaksz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdaks9hhj2c was absolute fire 🔥, watch it at 7 hour mark on.

Zapping everyone that comments and spreads the word.

https://www.youtube.com/live/uI38gUNaJLY


I wish I had studied #Bitcoin when I first heard about it. It is what it is. We are always learning. 2 digits BTC? What a blessing.


People just need to focus on how much sats they own and not on how much dollars their #Bitcoin is worth.

Dollars on any other currency for that matter are temporary, Bitcoin is permanent.


Better late than ever.


A global monetary network that requires only 600 GB memory space, transferred over $125 trillion in total value for an average transaction fee of ¢84 and all this P2P, without a single intermediary.

#Bitcoin is fucking amazing.


Where can I check this?


Same.


No problem!


Imagine being in the shoes of some poor soul whose portfolio is triple maxi ETH (or crypto) bidding.

If that’s you or an acquaintance, please use and share the link below to swap the 💩 into #Bitcoin.

www.sideshift.ai

Step 2: Happy to help set up a lifetime vault in minutes.

https://www.thebitcoinadviser.com/stefan


Exactly. Just another security with eventual utility.


Ethereum is a tech company that released a securitised token. They kept a large portion of the supply , gave some to their buddies and can increase supply by the push of a button.

It’s built on proof of stake , essentially benefiting those who hold more of it; an incentive to buy more.

Think about the founders and members behind ethereum. Think about their staking benefits . It’s a money printing machine for early developers and investors .

There’s no true utility , and even if you argue there is , it’s not a Bitcoin competitor . It’s just another tech company , nothing special .

nostr:npub103m96sra82w4agghew9cdxtzs4s8sl7qsjsvw6h653yml0gjrkzqefd3h5 thanks for the insight on some of your ethereum YouTube videos on 88 SATS Radio

https://youtu.be/A1DJS45zOLw?si=H423AGLh_Qfpk_cj

#ethereum #bitcoin #btc


What?


A global monetary network that requires only 406 GB memory space, transferred over $100 trillion in total value for an average transaction fee of $0.3 and all this P2P, without a single intermediary.

#Bitcoin is fucking amazing.
 - nostr:npub10wv37amdqnv8edw5yktgsxr62g8k4lqkk2u66fk6c6uwuakzssxsf4v22x

#BitcoinTwitter
https://bitcointwitter.web.app/images/v3/202.png


I use damus


I miss a #Guinessbeer


“Early on, if you provide value [on Nostr], you can create an incredible outsized return because people will follow you. And then as more people join the network, they'll look to people who are providing value and they'll move more and more to you… But because it's a protocol level, no one can ever take those followers away from you. No one can ever take your content away from you. The clients are competing for you. So all of the protocol development and all of the client development is in service of YOU.” — nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe with nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u

https://v.nostr.build/BUiGNdlotHJk5VgI.mp4


#Bitcoin is a life boat. https://image.nostr.build/776d2807059a522cfe81e7a5f1d35c94956e9e7bc6ed5bad68506e7a466f706a.jpg


Gm


Good question.


BREAKING: China M1 money supply suffers biggest decline in history and M2 rose the least ever.

In the next few months we will witness the biggest liquidity injection mankind has ever seen.

Prepare yourself: Study #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/2c6de46854fd40b62d6d68328f7a74d914cb39a51690a3f1ee43bbef62daa56c.jpg


Much of the education a doctor receives in med school
 is actually big-pharma mis-education.


THE AQUA WALLET 💧

This is something I've only revently started to use and it's changed my setup completely

Anyone who is moving bitcoin from Layer 2 (lightning, liquid, ecash) onto Layer 1 should definitely give this a spin

Here's my summary, tutorial, live demo, and tips for earning bitcoin

This wallet is perfect for moving sats earned from lightning into cold storage for very low fees

Shoutout to nostr:nprofile1qqsvnvvlln2ru6jlyweayugxecv7ftfdlzd6zqca63sh7x6ercggjegpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqsu0f2w and Jan3

Here's the video:
https://youtu.be/DO5XDuulQMw?si=hnChKiCUd0RcSSkq


This page has a pocket history of the word: https://nakamoto.com/the-cypherpunks/


People are not ready for what #Bitcoin is about to do.


Aerosolized Aluminum:
- Decimates forests and all plant life as it disrupts nutrient uptake and root system function
- Wipes out birds, insects, fish, and other sensitive wildlife
- Crosses blood-brain barrier in humans, causes birth defects, respiratory sickness, and significant mental dysfunction (including dementia), among countless other life-threatening health problems

NASA:
yo guys what if we just blasted a shitload of aluminum into the atmosphere for no reason lmao
https://m.primal.net/KxiO.png
https://m.primal.net/KxiT.png


No shadow banning


Favourite in my home.


Facts!


“The only barrier that you would not join Nostr right now is because the other platforms have more users and they can use that as leverage today. But that's not going to be the case in many years… those who are starting to get their followers already on Nostr are taking a significant advantage over everybody else because they're going to grow faster. And we all know how network effects happen. It just so happens that on Nostr, the network effects themselves are owned by the creator.” - nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8
#NostrTalk #GrowNostr
https://v.nostr.build/h56iStKgXY3GH05o.mp4 nostr:note1yzfcapljklt9vft6y8mrg7d2pluk2eg40wjcvsqahj32zqr2gv3q466aau


Anyone with experience with cloud mining or miner hosting?

Looking for some insights because at the moment it seems really hard to mine #Bitcoin at home…


9 month and already talking. That is amazing! 😅😂😂😂


I hope so too. Same applies for today, but different price range.


Fiat currency is backed by violence.

#Bitcoin is backed by code.
https://v.nostr.build/1uZAPnCRcTYovTzK.mp4

nostr:note1h9renqtrz5zq6zxcpyn3t55e29hjsd6cyd4d07wn8gdgcehp2sws4j07rd


One of the best advices I have read.
#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/979bbb9def24ea281ad25043b9efd808dc30a9bdeb49d099b4da0cd0ab79bf72.jpg


This is the way.


Every single day more and more people fall down the #Bitcoin rabbit hole and I don't know a single one who has returned to fiat.

Nothing stops this train. Study #Bitcoin and enjoy the ride. LFG

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/s/9NVWCWYVv7 https://image.nostr.build/7ab9429dcaa1bac58b83cc20be2348973455d029e411aa061a4230409fc27e5b.jpg


“I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop.” — Hayek on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 https://i.nostr.build/tD4XEvLyReDoCtpg.jpg


Can I connect my solomining to a mining pool?


If you’re located in Europe, check out our official partners @solo_mining for affordable #Bitaxe devices. Decentralizing #Bitcoin mining has become a global effort.

Help us congratulate them on their new launch! 🎊🎉👏

https://solomining.de/en/
https://m.primal.net/KtAk.jpg


It is truly remarkable.


It is remarkable what breakthroughs in computer science, network technologies, cryptography, economics, and energy systems have been necessary to make #Bitcoin a reality.

And we have a front row seat to marvel at it all in real time. What a time to be alive.


Please explain…

#stockmarket #debt #finance #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/50b48c7d6621525200464c7e71497c6c1d3a1b5ca8ec80733b16534a40463d0e.jpg


People need to learn #Bitcoin, otherwise they will swallow everything that the system gives to them.


MicroStrategy raises $1.01 Billion to buy more #Bitcoin


Easy. I think it will happen next month.


Connecting…


The best skincare product:

Sunlight.

The best gut biome supplement:

Fasting.

The best fat loss tool:

Walking.

The best way to create happiness:

Presence.

We’ve known these things to be the case for hundreds of thousands of years;

Nothing will ever compare to them…


Central banking is responsible for inflation, instability, undisciplined state expenditure, and economic nationalism.

#Bitcoin fixes all four of them.


Trump buying with Bitcoin is as much important as the pizzas bought with Bitcoin in early beggining.


Not me


It will go up when higher prices.


BREAKING: #Bitcoin held on exchanges plummet to levels not seen in ages. Are you f* ready for what is coming in the next couple of months? 🌊 https://image.nostr.build/a678dda8733de898fdf74140277faea504e5308b288a709507d8ed71fab8e95b.jpg


Gm


🎥 Watch now: #nostrdocumentary 🎥

See how NOSTR has the power to fix our broken social media landscape.
Link below 👇🏼 https://nostr.build/av/7171b28afe3d6d05b338c45091551f45ec711f8ad8513e3467096db79c69b78a.mov


wtf I love tiktok now

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1687090922784423938/pu/vid/720x1280/Y47Ph66PukpP6ZDW.mp4?tag=12


If you see this, give a like. Ty


Good memories.


https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=p44G0U4sLCE #tunestr


Chill and touch some grass.


October will be a good month


celebrate the state nostr:note1xvmrfd7zg0jxezaapak4k3zyrd05zlh2klenvanky4z8v8z307eq99zc5h


It’s real.


Yo people! Check out $GDOG on #solana Enter the community and chill with the #dogfather

#memecoin #cryptomarket https://image.nostr.build/8e506aa04b54ffd72ff0278ab6e357e4d60662342eedf8226c79d3ba7ae2d195.jpg


The Dog Father #memecoin will be #1 in memecoin space. Mark my word!
#solana #cryptomarket #memecoins #thedogfather https://image.nostr.build/8e506aa04b54ffd72ff0278ab6e357e4d60662342eedf8226c79d3ba7ae2d195.jpg


Check out #memecoin #solana The Dog Father! Early meme with tremendous potential!

G46uX4QuYwWR16BC5xabHVunqqHtydaZ8qKzLUd2pump https://image.nostr.build/3e657ad26fd2f75294135a5b32264da7e2fb7cdb0a2ac53fa63fea918238279e.jpg


Did you already checked $PUFFY #memecoin on #Solana? Don’t miss the next pump! 🚀

#memecoins #cryptomarket #puffy # https://image.nostr.build/47c5a312dcdb854fbf7725c6add090d326ecadfa1e737ef1b25093d291e3556c.jpg


I would pay attention to PUFFY on Solana.
#solana #memecoins #cryptomarket


Not available on ios


nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 preaching the good word here at #bhb noob day.
https://m.primal.net/KGcU.jpg


BREAKING: California is about to overtake Germany with half the population. That's how bad the European Union is doing.

I mean no wonder if you focus on bureaucracy instead of innovation. There is a billion-dollar industry in #Bitcoin that you are scaring off with f* red tape. https://image.nostr.build/143a7eb4af88ef0c24e0fcd5859cc63178493e5cdbf558854c55e5898444906c.jpg


Today’s #bitcoin school. Outstanding episode. Shortened my road trip time in the car..

"It doesn't matter if the existing system prints $2 trillion, $8 trillion, $50 trillion. It's just different pieces of paper. And Bitcoin measured against a piece of paper will look like it's going up. But all prices relative to Bitcoin are actually going down and will forever."

nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe

nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u 🧡

https://www.fountain.fm/episode/nvE4MO4qv2SB4q9ZcItK nostr:note1jz9kgnkkz7e4646we4qftx8d2lj75g99qsjs7n8lhlpernwr7cjqufpqzc


If it’s programable, it has bots.


Well done


WHO acting as criminal


Exactly.


"It doesn't matter if the existing system prints $2 trillion, $8 trillion, $50 trillion. It's just different pieces of paper. And #Bitcoin measured against a piece of paper will look like it's going up. But all prices relative to Bitcoin are actually going down and will forever."
https://v.nostr.build/n752ItqwArNbIgFn.mp4 nostr:note1semz8rruu7wz0px62u6pgd9e42xs5r2vhdt3udu5l73v7uut2rcq4j26wy


Central banks and massive pension funds are seeking #Bitcoin exposure. Public companies are ramping up their BTC intake. Public mining companies are now buying too.

This is an incredibly bullish setup.

Plan accordingly.


Paper Bitcoin won’t save you, only real sats make the work.


This is the way


Today, 53 years ago…

☞ "(...) to suspend TEMPORARILY the convertibility of the dollar into gold (...)"

☞ “(…), your dollar will be worth just as much tomorrow as it is today.” -Richard Nixon in 1971 when he abandoned the #goldstandard

☞ “If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.” -Satoshi Nakamoto

Study #bitcoin on #nostr here:
nostr:npub18kpw3akvdsyk239lx0jgwksr74sq4nlha3r8u9g2rnrhztfpfhysy469c4
nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u
nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 🧡 https://video.nostr.build/63c53fa7b90fcffaa8252c6f4a97306e1be7be4fdbf10f10c9d3d6814524627f.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/a0cce7853958d7e38ca5e14a6b97e46c0ea51a73c52c0ea7d6ab7013a1103bda.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b74d7dbc8e94992a078debcb4db63e6e1ea4546b9dc1cdad1df6f6e096dd8f16.jpg


Please elaborate. That doesn’t make any sense.


Episode XXI: „#Bitcoin and #Stoicism“ is now live.

While seemingly unrelated, both share philosophical virtues that reflect on wisdom, time, truth, resilience, discipline and value.

Like Stoicism, Bitcoin stands as the immutable testament to a world where value endures beyond the reach of time and tide.

Check it out now: https://carlbmenger.substack.com/p/bitcoin-and-stoicism?r=cvmt


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/


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