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  by 2009 it was clear - not only letting a single nation control the reserve currency afforded them tremendous advantage, it also put the global monetary system at great peril. The obvious choice was to either go back to gold standard; or to have a ledger NOT controlled by a single nation - an entity or not even an individual. While many attempted to solve this hard problem, the best design came from Satoshi aka bitcoin. The revelation, however, was - that simple ledger needed more energy to maintain itself than digging out all the gold. At the end - humans realized it wasn't about bitcoin or gold. It was the simple truth that if we build something - same amount of energy must be put aside to hold its value - value is half of everything  
 bitcoin has 20x volatility of gold - up or down. 
 Information is dualistic - knowledge harnesses the duality to manifest third dimension. 
 Information is dualistic - knowledge harnesses the duality to manifest third dimension. 
  Information is written in words : knowledge is stored in human mind as continuous realignment of meaning of words. And addition of new word vectors 
  AGI is preemptive. That is how we don't fall in walk and then get up to walk again at every step ! AI is reactive - it needs a prompt for everything. The question is how do we preempt so good - the answer is we are all connected - not like internet. We are connected like a blockchain - we sync in like nodes - may be we do that when we are slept  
  if EVMs could be tempered, how come BJP lost Ayodhya ? - a question that all doubt paddlers must answer  
 rules are made by humans - code implements the rules - things would get better when more informed people make rules - ones with AI running in their brains  
  olds love the news - did you ever read news paper in high school ? 
  No other country influenced gaming as much as Japan - hardware, software, culture ! Money is the ultimate game bitcoin  
 he got so busy in the narrative that he forgot to breathe  
 Combining match and enums is useful in many situations. You’ll see this pattern a lot in Rust code: match against an enum, bind a variable to the data inside, and then execute code based on it. It’s a bit tricky at first, but once you get used to it, you’ll wish you had it in all languages. It’s consistently a user favorite - The Book of Rust 
  The mishap leads to a systemic survival instinct, missing thus far in the new. They had probably presumed the survival was ensured by the old. At the prospect of baton being passed to them, the new realizes their struggle was never for the good or bad (of the society), it was for them(selves) - to understand who they are. Their situation is different from their olds. Their new ideas are not a solution for the old(er) problems, they are the plumbing for the new order. They must account for the stability of the new regime 
 this epoch belongs to Runes and Rust 
  billions of large primes are trying to understand the nature of number 1 - the unity. What is one ?  
  Bitcoin matters because it is impossible to peg modern securities and currencies back to gold. In absence of a proper peg unhinged they are  
  The block time in Golden age used to be a decade; in digital age it is ten minutes 
  Satoshi solved only half of the problem of digital cash system - the biggest one. He created an immutable public ledger of assets against which large asset holders may issues cash - for example companies can hold bitcoin on treasury to issue equity. Countries may issue currencies. It was important to have this ledger public so that anyone may be able to verify how much dilution baked into equity or currencies. He left it for the asset holders to decide the implementation of their cash systems based on location in space and situation in time for cash can never be scarce or fixed in nature - only assets can. In the process he created an apex asset for human race and digital beings to follow. 
  Satoshi solved only half of the problem of digital cash system - the biggest one. He created an immutable public ledger of assets against which large asset holders may issues cash - for example companies can hold bitcoin on treasury to issue equity. Countries may issue currencies. It was important to have this ledger public so that anyone may be able to verify how much dilution baked into equity or currencies. He left it for the asset holders to decide the implementation of their cash systems based on location in space and situation in time for cash can never be scarce or fixed in nature - only assets can. In the process he created an apex asset for human race and digital beings to follow. 
  there is a threshold useful value of money ; after that only use-case is to paddle influence through named donations  
  src/main.rsnostr has 1 architect, 1000 developers, 10000 testers on the platform and 100000 doubters on twitter 
 Simple may not be user friendly src/thought.mdcli 
 No one uses Linux only because it's open source or Free ; people use it because it is the best 
 You need to understand the whole universe to build anything from absolute scratch 
 It must be pretty darn valuable, if you want it copied on 30 thousand nodes and protected by 600 exahashes of raw power..... The reason #bitcoin succeeds is it focuses on high value - it leaves the trivial things out 
 Narratives are the storage of information expressed in fashion that captures human attention. Think of them as a battery for information. The way a battery stores electrical energy between a cathode and an anode, a narrative thrives between a hero and a villain. Morality aside - both are equally important to make the narrative worth reading. A good narrative does as much justice to a villain as a hero to make sure information reaches both sides of the aisle. As a matter of fact, the hero and a villain are two sides of the coin. 
 this is a test note from vim - ignore 
 This is s a test note being directly from vim 
  Trying out nostr-commander-tui. It lets me open a command in vim. When the file is saved, the contents of the file execute as command. The good thing is now I can type this entire note in vim and publish when I save and exit the file. 

Question is can I break the lines when I am typing  the note - let us check 
 AI lacks imagination 
 AI will never be able to understand #Rust  
 this is a test note from nostr-commander-tui 
 Zero is NOT null #rust  
 No name , No photo, no NIP05 name  - your pub key is you - that is it  
 No name , No photo, no NIP05 name  - your pub key is you - that is it 
 before you ask for more privacy - go figure who am I  
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