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You didn’t get lucky.

You were smarter, had more conviction and bigger balls.

You earned this.


Legend.
#Russell #Okung

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Legend.
#Russel #Okung

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#Bitcoin saving our future.
Thank you Satoshi.
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Cheers!

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I just put on the Interstellar docking scene soundtrack and punched two new holes in my belt.

The last hour was a throwback to 2018 when I went to work early dark winter mornings in Norway. I remember the snow and glistening stars above, listening to the Interstellar docking music on repeat on my headphones while planning my next bitcoin purchase. Magical times.

Now time is reconnecting back in time. I remember all the mornings, days and nights of hard work and overtime.

We made it.


It's happening!

The world is beginning to understand that there is no second best!

Cheers! You made it friend!
#hyperbitcoinization is upon us.

https://video.nostr.build/c8a29425455458c9aecb49d9e43b5b604fa9d7809c1cdcd6f92d85eb546b06c0.mp4


BREAKING: #Bitcoin now worth $82,000 US fucking dollar. https://image.nostr.build/6884af8c49f34d105f8e3751ec20dbdb5be4b4da043e1dd39bd1ef8c36932905.jpg


This.

My father passed away in his early sixties before he even had a chance at retirement.

To this we can add that the social security system is a scam - gen X and future generations will not be able to exist, and certainly not independently with their dignity in place, on government handouts.

In the face of the threat of CBDCs, which are programmable coupons that can be restricted in any manner imaginable, Bitcoin is the only chance of permissionless hard money that cannot be debased.

I wrote a short program that calculates the loss of purchasing power over a 45 year career. If the taxrate was zero and inflation was "only" 2% per year, the loss of purchasing power on savings is ~35% over a 45 year career.

Below is a visualization of 6 examples of how savings are impacted by taxes + inflation on a year-by-year basis.

After 45 years of work, the savings from the first work year might have lost 96%+ of its purchasing power.

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I don't want to wake up at sixty-five and realise that my seventy thousand plus hours of life, working a nine-to-five, have been devalued by inflation bc some central planner has enriched himself and his mates.

Go f* yourself. #Bitcoin is insurance against government theft.


Middle Earth update.

After Aragon's victory, female trolls announce that they are going on a sex strike.

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This is why US elections matter for free speech in Europe. Thank you JD Vance, my initial skepticism was misplaced.

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$75K Bitcoin.
Orange coin back.

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This reminds me that ~90% ethnic Norwegians had the experimental mRNA jab at least once.

Sweden in particular and Norway to some extent have been an epicenter of woke ideology for decades. Glad to see some pushback.


It is time to reject the UN Agenda 21 + 2030 and its climate alarmism. Civilization is downstream from energy. Until Quantised Inertia allows for cheap energy, we should "drill baby drill".

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BREAKING: Bitcoin Wins the 2024 Election
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Orange man wins. Orange coin goes up. Will be happy to see Ross set free.

#FreeRoss #Bitcoin


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Upcoming:

Bitcoin bullrun.
Free Ross Ulbricht on day one.
US Bitcoin reserve.
Ron Paul cutting govt regulations.
No tax on tips.
Federal income tax on the chopping block.
Energy abundance and a rejection of climate alarmism.

The 2024 content patch update is not boring.


#Bitcoin is the way.
FreeRossUlbricht.

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GM $71K. #Bitcoin


“a recent Harris Poll commissioned in partnership with crypto asset manager Grayscale revealed that around 56% of all voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who is "informed about crypto" compared to one who is not.”

Probably nothing

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/bitcoin-miners-launch-ad-campaign-swing-states-boost-crypto-friendly-candidates.amp


Money itself originate from the market - not from the state and nor from a social contract. It emerges gradually as monetary entrepreneurs seek out an ideal form of commodity for exchange.
 - nostr:npub10wv37amdqnv8edw5yktgsxr62g8k4lqkk2u66fk6c6uwuakzssxsf4v22x

#BitcoinTwitter
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We are so back. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/b18238515f5445b6125f3e99b592a4dfcfe3e2b59ddce73260906b4df910156e.jpg


Let's bury CBDCs and go Bitcoin.

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Whenever I see statists like the ECB get upset about Bitcoin, or when I see more brazen regimes try and actually implement an all-out ban or crazy tax scheme, I turn to my favorite bit of writing anywhere on Bitcoin and remind myself that a ban is the Berlin Wall and that “fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly”

Bitcoin is Ariadne by nostr:npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt

“Bitcoin is often framed as “competing” with fiat currency. This is true in a sense but I fear there is a rhetorical danger of invoking the wrong kind of “competition”. It is not a fight, for example. There is no conflict. Bitcoin is not trying to damage or sabotage its opponents, because it isn’t trying anything and it knows no opponents. It has no awareness whatsoever of who might oppose it or why. It is simply an alternative; an exit valve; an opt-out. It is competing only insofar as it is proving to be a far superior alternative. It is not a sword for Theseus to fight the Minotaur, but a thread to follow to exit the labyrinth. Bitcoin is Ariadne.

There will be tremendous value in normalizing this rhetoric amidst the likely growing chorus of opposition desperate to smear Bitcoin as inherently nefarious, or hostile, even. Opponents must be forced to explain what is wrong with people interacting freely, and why true goodness can only follow from coercion, in their understanding. Should those who have found a way out of the unbearable labyrinth of capital strip mining not take it? What do they owe the Minotaur?

Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice they face, any individual would choose to save in a self-referentially mispriced toxic loan rather than a provably sound digital bearer asset? Or, more simply still, that they will think it makes less sense to hold money that is a pure asset than money that is literally defined as a liability? Why not opt into a financial system that is built on trustless verifiability rather than unverifiable trust?

… It is worth working through the optics of any decision to engage with Bitcoin in a truly hostile manner, because it is certainly coming. McNeill reminds us that, even some seven-hundred-or-so years ago, “the breakdown of established patterns of conduct always appears deplorable to a majority of those who witness it.” By no means do I have a utopian outlook on this subject — rather, it is something of an intellectual rite of passage to accept the nonzero utility of dystopian paranoia. Bitcoin will be banned, many times, in many places. But a ban is an open admission of practical and moral failure and is arguably the best advertisement of all. A ban is the Berlin Wall; fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly and cruelty of repression. Bitcoin doesn’t force anybody to stay. They come, and then they stay, because they want to — because it is both practically and morally superior.”


Amazing. I particularly love that natural rock archway. This is gold.


Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
#picstr
#photgraphy
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#Bitcoin break out ✔. LFG https://image.nostr.build/d5efd5b1bf1097c01cc8d8072d9c226779b8bd592ff5be5fd0733f0dbad8d2b3.jpg


$80K BY ELECTION DAY


We are officially back in the early bull market phase. Add the upcoming US election which is basically a pro-Bitcoin vs an anti-Bitcoin election. (Plus free markets vs communism)

This thing will explode upwards.


You reap what you sow. ⏱ #Bitcoin 🧡 https://image.nostr.build/3ebc333989f7485468175f2905e8c5bbc7e8dfc146cea431764071aaa59f6114.jpg


As many of us have remarked over the past few years, this was planned all along and it fits perfectly with the government strategy of printing money. As inflation worsens, individuals become dependent on government handouts for survival.

The final stage of paying out some form of UBI (or targeted UBI) in programmable CBDC's is now piloted in Thailand as Efrat explains and can be expected to arrive in all nations that are on board with the UN Agenda 21. That would be approximately the same 179 nations that signed the UN Agenda 21 in Rio de Janeiro back in 1992.

Bitcoin is the only liberty money competitor to CBDC's that offer a global game theory strategy where capital flight can pressure governments to improve their regulations in favor of individual liberties and property rights.


As many of us have remarked over the past few years, this was planned all along and it fits perfectly with the government strategy of printing money. As inflation worsens, individuals become dependent on government handouts for survival.

The final stage of paying out some form of UBI (or targeted UBI) in programmable CBDC's is now piloted in Thailand as Efrat explains and can be expected to arrive in all nations that are on board with the UN Agenda 21. That would be approximately the same 179 nations that signed the UN Agenda in Rio de Janeiro back in 1992.

Bitcoin is the only liberty money competitor to CBDC's that offer a global game theory strategy where capital flight can pressure governments to improve their regulations in favor of individual liberties and property rights.


🇹🇭 Thailand’s #CBDC pilot program is their second UBI (universal basic income/welfare) program, giving away $280 to 50m low income earners (for free), under a heavily controlled system. Tune in & learn more.

Full video of the panel below.

https://v.nostr.build/zHRwqQg02e5en419.mp4

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Yes, for most people, staying and resisting CBDC's is the best option.

Yet, it is also the case that since many individuals and entrepreneurs go where they are treated best, a greater game theory plays out where nations have to compete to keep capital, entrepreneurs and skills from leaving. This competition will benefit individual liberties and property rights, albeit may take years or decades to have an impact.

Both of these strategies are necessary and all we can do is choosing the one that aligns with our hearts. Italy is certainly beautiful, as well as large parts of Europe. If I stay or leave, I am still thankful for those that go where they are treated best. Their capital flight will put pressure on the authoritarian jurisdictions.


Agreed.

In the choice between an Elizabeth Warren (Democrat) style regulatory structure that is openly and extravagantly hostile to all non-CBDC tech, vs a shitcoining candidate who is positive to Bitcoin and "crypto", the latter aligns with individual liberties and property rights while the former is acid to modern civilization. Add the de-industrialization UN Agenda 2030 programs that attack energy usage, travel, production and consumption.

Under a system of property rights we will not agree with all adult consensual behaviors but they are protected none the less, with the benefit of our rights being protected as well.

Shitcoining shows a poor judgement, yet many of us maximalists have recovered from that kind of past bad judgement. The process of liberty alignment is not equally fast for everyone.


Agreed.

In the choice between an Elizabeth Warren (Democrat) style regulatory structure that is openly and extravagantly hostile to all non-CBDC tech, vs a shitcoining candidate who is positive to Bitcoin and "crypto", the latter aligns with individual liberties and property rights while the former is acid to modern civilization. Add the de-industrialization UN Agenda 2030 programs that attack energy usage, travel, production and consumtion.

Under a system of property rights we will not agree with all adult consensual behaviors but they are protected none the less, with the benefit of our rights being protected as well.

Shitcoining shows a poor judgement, yet many of us maximalists have recovered from that kind of past bad judgement. The process of liberty alignment is not equally fast for everyone.


Promote pawn to a queen, then rook to F7 should work.

[Edit] Memory loss. I meant to type F7.


Promote pawn to a queen, then rook to F6 should work.


My journey from North Korea to freedom taught me that true freedom is more than escaping physical borders. It’s about breaking free from systems of control. So I see Bitcoin as a tool to help people regain their freedom, not as a matter of being a "Bitcoiner," but as a way to empower individuals to protect their fundamental human rights.


All we got were mandatory bottle caps.

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#Rocket #US #EU #Europe


Magnificent.


BREAKING: Rachel Reeves considers raising capital gains tax to 39% in the UK 🇬🇧

“Rates of 33% to 39% being tested as Treasury source says tax-raising plans are in ‘complete disarray’”

Go and take your wealth where your capital is treated best. #Bitcoin

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/10/rachel-reeves-capital-gains-tax-rise-budget


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Completely unpredictable to the central planner mindset. Predictable like clockwork to every realist.

When a government announces attacks against property rights, capital and entrepreneurs will leave.

Bitcoin makes this process even easier since bitcoin is a global ledger without national boundaries.

#Norway #Tax #Wealth #Bitcoin


This is one of the most powerful indictments of legacy media and censorship I’ve ever heard…

If you care about freedom of speech, take 7 minutes of your time and listen to what Lara Logan has to say.

https://v.nostr.build/02FRAClfs6YTdm4m.mp4


Yes.

Also, the Swedish government politicizes everything it touches and the Nobel prize is just an extension of the Swedish government at this point. The Nobel committee have given many deserved prizes in the past but we can always expect a political play under the surface.


Amazing splendor.


Dzień dobry


One of the best answers I ever heard about #Bitcoin was someone who asked a hardcore bitcoiner, “You only talk about all of these great benefits, but what is the worst thing about Bitcoin?”

His answer was, “It’s going to grant all those same freedoms and benefits to the person who you hate most in the world. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Ironically, that’s what most people can’t give up. They can’t let go of the statist temptation of arbitrarily punishing people they don’t like, or are afraid of. nostr:note1wxevegymwd4vscqu3urkqsx4qsuma9qphkdhk9amru3pdr77fjxsdsc0xr


Perhaps. On the other hand, reproductive rights might work fine if there is no moneyprinting/inflation that causes the young generation to be priced out of the housing market. Also a general reduction of central planning regulations would be beneficial.

In Scandinavia it is hard for parents to homeschool children due to the mandatory school attendance regulations. Add the violence of many neighborhoods in Sweden due to mass immigration and the poor selection process. We can choose to have positive immigration instead of importing criminal gang structures.

If these problems can be solved and reversed, I think we will see an increase in births. People don't want children to grow up in a bad area and under hostile conditions, for example violence and mandatory government propaganda in schools, so the alternative for young couples is often to build up capital and move to somewhere safe before they have children.

Also we need strong gun carry rights in Scandinavia. If most of the working population is armed, criminals will soon learn to stay away from our peninsula.


Perhaps. On the other hand, reproductive rights might work fine if there is no moneyprinting/inflation that causes the young generation to be priced out of the housing market. Also a general reduction of central planning regulations would be beneficial.

In Scandinavia it is hard for parents to homeschool children due to the mandatory school attendance regulations. Add the violence of many neighborhoods in Sweden due to mass immigration and the poor selection process. We can choose to have positive immigration instead of importing criminal gang structures.

If these problems can be solved and reversed, I think we will see an increase in births. People don't want children to grow up in a bad area and under hostile conditions, for example violence and mandatory government propaganda in schools, so the alternative for young couples is often to build up capital and move to somewhere safe before they have children.

Also we need strong gun carry regulations in Scandinavia. If most of the working population is armed, criminals will soon learn to stay away from our peninsula.


Rapalje performing a celtic acoustic variant of Manowar - The Crown And The Ring. This concert was in 2009.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Myeh8sgZgp8

#Rapalje #Manowar #Celtic #Folk #Metal #Acoustic #Music #Bitcoin


By the end of 2010 Satoshi Nakamoto removed the last significant point of centralisation from #Bitcoin forever: HIMSELF.


Dusty Ribbons

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#jwst #webb

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, O. Jones (UK ATC), G. De Marchi (ESTEC), and M. Meixner (USRA), with image processing by A. Pagan (STScI), N. Habel (USRA), L. Lenkic (USRA) and L. Chu (NASA/Ames)

Published: 01/11/23


Impressive real life nebula.

I made a couple of nebulas with FilterForge back in 2018-2019 to challenge myself.

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No AI involved, just connecting nodes of Perlin and Worley noise and setting up a ton of sliders for procedural generation.

The last image show the node graph before I had it cleaned up, quite a creative mess.😄

#FilterForge #Nebula #Perlin #Worley #Noise


CBDCs não são projetos unicamente monetários, são projetos para controlar a internet também.

Não haverá CBDC sem ID Digital estatal para controlar toda sua atividade na internet e como ela é monetizada.

Bitcoin, LN, Nostr e Web5 são a resistência a este tipo de projeto para descentralizar a própria internet e seu dinheiro nativo.


GM! https://image.nostr.build/427919f70b7c711214446be201fc1d63fe8ab381631f7baec0c890f36d04290e.jpg


Every continent needs Bitcoin.

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Yup.
I was waiting for this reply.🙃


Absolutely. I think it's a matter of understanding causality.

Just adding that Michael Saylor turned out quite well without children. It generally work better for men than women, with some variations. Men having a longer fertility window probably have an impact as well.


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#Meme #Liberty #Global #Warming #Climate #Alarmism #GlobalGovernment #Government #1984 #Tyranny


Right, before extensive bureaucracy we had more liberties and free markets around the world. Free commerce used to be the default experience, with the local warlord taxes of course.


Bitcoin is the only viable solution against moneyprinting. Knowledge is just not distributed evenly.

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#Bitcoin


Magatte Wade delivering the truth.

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Only free markets, property rights, individual liberties and hard money can bring prosperity.

The forces of good embrace these pillars of civilization while the retrogressives promote modern slavery under a machinery of strangling regulations and massive inflation caused by moneyprinting and government debt.

Africa needs Bitcoin.

#Capitalism #Africa #Magatte #Wade #Bitcoin


Agreed.
I perceive that there are two main types of markets.

1. Profit - free markets. Consumers vote with their wallets and impact what they want or don't want produced in order to improve their lives and happiness. This is the outcome of free agency, individual liberties and property rights.

2. Ideology. In this kind of centrally planned and rigged market, actors are rewarded or punished based on ideology. The driving ideology sorts winners and losers based on compliance with the ruling regime and its authoritarian belief systems. Examples: national socialism, fascism, communism and socialism.

A good example of the ideology-based market is ESG scores where central planners define the ideological framework and mandated policies and beliefs that all commerce have to be filtered through in order to be successful and legal.


The profit motive may not be the cleanest but it's one of the most honest. At least you know where it stands.


Good video. Learning is a broad term so I wouldn't ditch it. The ways of learning are many and I wouldn't want to associate learning with traditional classroom methods.


Yep. The game theoretical benefits of Bitcoin hinges on it being the hardest money and the best store of value.

There will never be a timeline where the best store of value doesn't appreciate.

NGU is a receipt for the hardest money.


By the end of the decade governments will have lost their monopoly on information and the creation of money.

Freedom wins, Bitcoin wins.


The funny thing about people saying that you don't have to be a libertarian to own or appreciate bitcoin is that it proves the Austrian thesis.

People will act on the incentives wheather they realize they are doing it or not.

Will bitcoin adoption inevtiably reduce the size of the state and its manufactured wellfare class?

I don't see any other outcome. It will likely happen as most people shoehorn whatever ideology they want into aligning with bitcoin.


We are winning. Openly announcing climate alarmism is now a certain path to losing votes in the US.

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#Climate #Alarmism #Propaganda #Kamala #Democrat #globalwarming


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#Bitcoin #Meme


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#Meme #Quote #MalcolmX #Education #Homeschool


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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Despot.

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Good initiative.

I agree, longer and more nuanced conversations belong on Nostr.


In the Gulag Archipelago the Soviet prisons were full of criminals & brilliant people, & the criminals were often released to make more room for the intelligent who refused to go along with rules put in place by authoritarian midwits. Today the midwits call those who are actually brilliant & who think for themselves "science deniers." History will repeat if we are not careful. https://nostpic.com/media/ec99edc5567e02815fb15020285e2fa8390931cedf59c83d6bb2c5f6ee1530b9/a6c52e4253b2cc23f27b64057b3b253695d09c22154b713079214bd6c30540a5.webp


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#Meme #Leftism #Socialism


Ryan McMaken, Executive Editor and Economist at the Mises Institute, explains the concept of ‘Radical Decentralization’ and why secession is more important now than ever.

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


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"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the right of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money."

// Frederick Douglas

#Meme #Free #Speech #FreeSpeech


Great decision. Better to have non-AI tools for those who have skills or want to develop skills.

Sovereignty starts and ends by being able to create something on your own, without crutches.


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"The welfare state reduces a citizen to a client, subordinates them to a bureaucrat, and subjects them to rules that are anti-work, anti-family, anti-opportunity and anti-property."

// Anonymous

#Welfare #State #Socialism


Yes, depending on the situation. I generally prefer to go into specifics since metaphors do not translate perfectly from one domain to another.


Agreed. And we may also divide contests into niches where individuals with similar ability can have a meaningful competition. This makes sense in terms of male vs female boxing as well as different weight classes.

The equality aspect is that everyone is playing by the same rules. When someone needs different rules this encourages the creation of new sport categories.

I also support equality of opportunity. Nobody should be held down and/or prevented from achieving their potential.

The only problem is when "equal opportunity" is interpreted as creating an equal starting point for everyone - which is impossible. There is nothing wrong with helping and aiding others to have a better starting point.

Yet the variability in passion, creativity, experience, determination, skill, focus, stamina and ability are so great that equalizing the starting point may inspire some people to cut down the high achievers to achieve some kind of equality utopia.

Example of when equal opportunity becomes harmful:

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Agreed. And we may also divide contests into niches where individuals with similar ability can have a meaningful competition. This makes sense in terms of male vs female boxing as well as different weight classes.

The equality aspect is that everyone is playing by the same rules. When someone needs different rules this encourages the creation of new sport categories.

I also support equality of opportunity. Nobody should be held down and/or prevented from achieving their potential.

The only problem is when "equal opportunity" interpreted as creating an equal starting point for everyone - which is impossible. There is nothing wrong with helping and aiding others to have a better starting point.

Yet the variability in passion, creativity, experience, determination, skill, focus, stamina and ability are so great that equalizing the starting point may inspire some people to cut down the high achievers to achieve some kind of equality utopia.

Example of when equal opportunity becomes harmful:

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Soon, in Australia, criticizing the banks will soon be considered a ‘serious harm’ and subject to prosecution. https://image.nostr.build/59f922deb361ab74e7657af79a0554138cd9813cd2e753d86fbdc3383f73eaab.jpg


Yes, they are impossible goals that lead to a central planning tyranny as they are attempted in practice. I'm not sure that there is a practical difference between a goal and a destination that can't be reached - they both represent a directional vector.

If I tell people that equality of outcomes is my goal, you can expect all kinds of restrictions that cages and incapacitates individual liberties in an attempt to prevent different outcomes. We can also predict that there will be groups of people that are given special privileges. In short: a recipe for totalitarianism under the banner of pretended justice.


Yes, they are impossible goals that lead to a central planning tyranny as they are attempted in practice. I'm not sure that there is a practical difference between a goal and a destination thar can't be reached - they both represent a directional vector.

If I tell people that equality of outcomes is my goal, you can expect all kinds of restrictions that cages and incapacitates individual liberties in an attempt to prevent different outcomes. We can also predict that there will be groups of people that are given special privileges. In short: a recipe for totalitarianism under the banner of pretended justice.


Should the state hold Bitcoin? Explained by  nostr:npub1hxwmegqcfgevu4vsfjex0v3wgdyz8jtlgx8ndkh46t0lphtmtsnsuf40pf

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


Absolutely.

The "equality of outcome" is a lie that cannot be achieved.


Yup.

Since the position is illogical I suspect that it is often a disingenious concern voiced by envious minds who would rather want their altcoin to have Bitcoin's dominant position as a store of value.

Yet from basic logic we can expect that the hardest money will be popular as a store of value, both for companies and ETF providers.

Those who understand hard money better than others will necessarily accumulate more of it and earlier.

There is no alternate timeline where the hardest money does not become desirable.

If we could restrict and prevent individuals and companies from buying a certain amount of Bitcoin, it wouldn't be an open and fair protocol.

Only under communism is equal outcomes desirable - and it requires totalitarian measures to even aim at approximately achieving such a result.


Yup.

Since the position is illogocal I suspect that it is often a disingenious concern voiced by envious minds who would rather want their altcoin to have Bitcoin's dominant position as a store of value.

Yet from basic logic we can expect that the hardest money will be popular as a store of value, both for companies and ETF providers.

Those who understand hard money better than others will necessarily accumulate more of it and earlier.

There is no alternate timeline where the hardest money does not become desirable.

If we could restrict and prevent individuals and companies from buying a certain amount of Bitcoin, it wouldn't be an open and fair protocol.

Only under communism is equal outcomes desirable - and it requires totalitarian measures to even aim at approximately achieving such a result.


Yup.

Since the position is illogocal I suspect that it is often a disingenious concern voiced by envious minds who would rather want their altcoin to have Bitcoin's dominant position as a store of value.

Yet from basic logic we can expect that the hardest money will be popular as a store of value, both for companies and ETF providers.

Those who understand hard money better than others will necessarily accumulate more of it and earlier.

There is no alternate timeline where the hardest money does not become desirable.

If we could restrict and prevent individuals and companies from buying a certain amount of Bitcoin, it wouldn't be an open and fair protocol.

Only under communism is equal outcomes desirable - and it requires totalitarian measures to even aim at approximately achieve such a result.


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#Meme #Memes #Philosophy


Bitcoin is the remedy
which Hayek was looking for.

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"We must find a new limit for the activities of government, a limit which leaves ample scope for sensible experimentation but which secures the freedom of the individual as the mainspring of all social and political activity."

// Friedrich Hayek

#Quote #Hayek #Friedrich #Bitcoin #Liberty #Austrian #Economics #Free #Markets


Absolutely.

This reminds me of the great series The Colony which was terminated after 2-3 seasons. I was disappointed that there were actual aliens in the story - it would have been a more interesting plot twist if the aliens were just made up in order to lock down the planet.

If we ever hear of an alien invasion, I'm going to assume it's a totalitarian power grab.


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"The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force."

// Milton Friedman

#Quote #Milton #Friedman #MiltonFriedman #Capitalism #Free #Market #FreeMarket #Austrian #Economics


The Social Security Administration expects their reserves to run out in 2035.

That’s a different pile of money than most other government functions, and so without either tax increases or legislation that transfers other money to it, payments going out to retirees could actually be cut after that due to not enough income flowing in.

I’m not sure what they’ll do at that point since we don’t even know what things will look like then, but basically 2035 is the next station to see if the train keeps going or not.

This drawdown will represent “intergovernmental” public debt turning into public debt held by either the private sector, foreign sector, or central bank.
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We need wild places. But, what we need even more is wild people.

Fuck the herd #nostr. 🫂 https://image.nostr.build/b366287ba7fb4cda108ee6ad180da89ea9387d8aa5fef0c6335c06e2f5a676e5.jpg


Stephen Ituruka delivering the truth.

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"If you live in a country where the government is the largest employer, you live in a centrally planned economy with vestiges of the free market."

// Stephen Ituruka

#Free #Market #FreeMarket #Austrian #Economics #Central #Planning


Stephen Ituruka delivering the truth.

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"If you live in a country where the government is the largest employer, you live in a centrally planmed economy with vestiges of the free market."

// Stephen Ituruka

#Free #Market #FreeMarket #Austrian #Economics #Central #Planning


Stephen Ituruka delivering the truth.

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"If you love in a country where the government is the largest employer, you live in a centrally planmed economy with vestiges of the free market."

// Stephen Ituruka

#Free #Market #FreeMarket #Austrian #Economics #Central #Planning


With a hard money standard (#Bitcoin) it would be easier to fund. Moneyprinting leads to concrete deserts.


Probably genetics. Diet may have some impact also.


Agreed.

The map also gives a hint about genetics. Less skin melanin means less UV light protection.


Any Nostriches around this area?
Going there in a week, looking for frens 🤙

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#meetstr #Croatia #Montenegro #Albania


GM folks.


Sure. But that's common here also. Most people are not very creative.


The concept of money is most misunderstood. https://image.nostr.build/883e45d5cf5a7df4cf3ff83b96a90f6755ac0c93ed9708f12ad43ec753c341e6.jpg


Compelling content requires interesting humans so that's something that code can't substitute. Humans are always a step ahead of language mimicry models. Keep up the good work.


I'm a bit curious, how would you know that they haven't changed their views? And how would that relate to Nostr?


Interesting. Japanese must be quite a challenge. I also studied German + Spanish in school but much of it has evaporated due to neglect so I am trying to recapture some of it. It is absolutely easier once the path has been trodden before.


Well done.
This is the way.


I focus mostly on improving my Polish but I practice some German and Spanish also. How about you?


When your language score in DuoLingo finally reaches higher than the price of Bitcoin. ☀🌟⭐✨

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GM. Happy weekend everyone. ☀


Absolutely. I wrote a thread on why KYC/AML regulations are a violation of property rights.

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The whole "terrorism" crime category was always trap.

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Since 9/11/2001 and Homeland Security regulations, it became evident that the threat of terrorism was a method to sell surveillance and restrictions by pulling the strings of fear.

We always had laws against all kinds of crimes before we adopted anti-terror laws. The difference is that terror laws don't require the same legal protections.

In order to reject the abuse of anti-terror laws we must reject "terrorism" as a valid crime category.


Bitcoin has gravitas.

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#Bitcoin


After many a fortnight, I’m finally starting a Dungeons & Dragons Comedy Podcast.

Dungeon Master nostr:npub14actrvwqkhfg7f9p8hf3h7ea5r509c8pkltklyxyvl5kfl08gpuqjtnayx and I are seeking a brave adventurous soul to join us behind the scenes to helm the wheel of content and editing.

Aside from getting your bounty paid in digital gold, you’ll get to work with nerd-in-training nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs while learning a lot about cloacas.

Scroll for initiative at https://www.bradmills.ca/careers/content-strategist https://image.nostr.build/e2d88aaf4804aefe4c2203fd98606c588544f1eca8c8b7b8b2a22ac62175e9c7.jpg


Cool to hear.
I found this gem recently.
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“Hate speech” is a made up Marxist euphemism. A dog whistle for aspiring censors.

There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only speech that particular people don’t like.
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Right.

All effective spam prevention comes with tradeoffs.

Web of trust models should make it very hard for spam to pass. If an algorithm assigns weight to our social network nodes, filtering out spam would be relatively easy. The problem is designing a mechanism allowing newcomers into the web of trust that doesn't come with negative tradeoffs.

A cost-to-post is a possibility that can also help fund relays, yet will add an obstacle for new users and may reduce interaction depending on the costs.

We also have to consider that future censorship mechanisms will likely utilize anti-spam functionality as the primary methods of justification. It is therefore important to consider the possible censorship risks in a given anti-spam strategy.


Central planning ideas may sound bizarre (and they are)  but they are not random musings without a history.

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In Plato's Republic, Socrates proposed that in his idea of a utopian city state, children of the Guardian class should not know who their parents are and they should be brought up collectively. The goal was an attempt at eugenics; to produce the perfect citizens.

Let's dive into Plato's Republic.

"It follows from what we have said, and from our whole previous argument - that our men and women Guardians should be forbidden by law to live together in separate households, and all the women should be common to all the men; similarly, children should be held in common, and no parent should know its child, or child its parent."

// Plato - The Republic, Book 5, part 6, 457.d

"... our Rulers will have to employ a great deal of fiction and deceit for the benefit of their subjects"   // 459.d

"We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we're not to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and bring up only the offspring of the best.

And no one but the Rulers must know what is happening, if we are to avoid dissension in our Guardian herd."   // 459.e

"And we shall have to devise an ingenious system of drawing lots, so that our inferior Guardians can, at each mating festival, blame the lot and not the Rulers."   // 460.a

"These officers will take the children of the better Guardians to a nursery and put them in charge of nurses living in a separate part of the city; the children of the inferior Guardians, and any defective offspring of the others, will be quietly and secretly disposed of."   // 460.c

As we can observe from the above reasoning, Plato laid the philosophical groundwork for authoritarian central planning based on eugenics, secrecy and deception, for the assumed "common good". The road to hell is paved with a lot of well-sounding justifications.

While Aristotle opposed this idea of having wives and children in common, he made the observation that *if* this were to be done, and since slavery was the standard at this time, it would be better that the husbandmen class had this arrangement:

"This community of wives and children seems better suited to the husbandmen than to the Guardians, for if they have wives and children in common, they will be bound to one another by weaker ties, as a subject class should be, and they will remain obedient and not rebel."

// Politics, Book 2, Chapter 3, 1262.a.40

It is important to mention here that Aristotle argues several pages against Plato's idea of shared wives, children and also against shared property. This is not a scenario that Aristotle wants to see. He just considers that *if* it were to be done in theory, it would result in a weakened subject class that cannot rebel.

From here it is not hard to see the trailing impact of Plato's ideas on Fabian socialism and the general eugenics movement in the early 20th century.

When we are confronted with ideas of abolishing the family, or the gradual introduction of the State in handling family matters of education, we are tracing the roots of authoritarian central planning back to Plato.

Below, Katherine Timpf's article from 2015:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/05/professor-if-you-read-your-kids-youre-unfairly-disadvantaging-others-katherine-timpf/

#Plato #Republic #Aristotle #Eugenics #Family #Central #Planning


Yep. And the point with communication is to reach an audience.

Nostr will have better reach in a few years. It is easier to attract people to Nostr if we demonstrate confidence. Confidence means that we don't have a need to lash out at other communication channels.


1. He seems to be critical - not of Nostr - but of the activism of funneling people away from channels that are efficient at reaching an audience in 2024. Why is it so important for some here to advocate for a Nostr-only position when our reach on Nostr vs the general public is still extremely limited.

2. He is saying that Elon has better funds at his disposal vs Nostr app devs. Jack Dorsey was unable to bring free speech to Twitter because he lacked the funds necessary. Capital matters.

Of course, Twitter/X can still be overtaken by government pressure under Elon, so it makes sense that we have a presence on Nostr.

Instead of a Nostr *only* mentality I prefer a Nostr *also* outlook. Multiple communications channels is the way.


1. He seems to be critical - not of Nostr - but of the activism of funneling people away from channels that are efficient at reaching an audience in 2024. Why is it so important for some here to adcocate for a Nostr-only position when our reach on Nostr vs the general public is still extremely limited.

2. He is saying that Elon has better funds at his disposal vs Nostr app devs. Jack Dorsey was unable to bring free speech to Twitter because he lacked the funds necessary. Capital matters.

Of course, Twitter/X can still be overtaken by government pressure under Elon, so it makes sense that we have a presence on Nostr.

Instead of a Nostr *only* mentality I prefer a Nostr *also* outlook. Multiple communications channels is the way.


GM.

Fantastic summer afternoon here in Poland.


"The Sovereign Individual," published in 1997, is incredibly prophetic!
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😅🤣

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#Meme #TTRPG #DnD #Dungeons #Dragons #RPG


Price at 9% and all-time high:

2016 cycle:
9% price: $7.4k | ATH: $20k (x2.7)

2020 cycle:
At 9%: $11.5k | ATH: $68k (x5.9)

2024 cycle:
At 9%: $58k | ATH: $696k? (X12)


I assume that it means 9% into the current halving period, so the numbers are apples-to-apples in that regard.


GM. Beautiful day up for grabs.


We can read a book and not become the content of the book.

Liberty principles bring a directional compass and action provides acceleration.


Socialism is a spectrum.

My family are largely social democrats, i.e. socialists. They would either vote for social democrats or the communist party in Sweden (VpK). The communist party changed name to V in the early 1990'ies but kept the ideology and their main principles remain - the government should run everything in society. That's what communism ultimately is about and which explains why it is adjacent to fascism.

Communism is simply principles, which in turn leads to policies and practices.

The principle of equal outcomes *is* a communist principle and it necessitates a totalitarian regime for it to be implemented. It requires all wealth to be redistributed, via taxes, moneyprinting, regulations, subsidies and so on.

There is no way to achieve equal outcomes except through tyranny. We can expect the use of CBDCs and social credit score systems as standard solutions to reach such utopian goals.

Of course, equal outcomes can never truly be achieved, which leaves us with a worsening totalitarianism as it is attempted.

Kamala Harris is on board with the UN Agenda 21 climate and anti-energy policies, so there is every reason to assume that she supports the emergence of a global government under the UN.

That is communism, if we understand the neo-communism from 1978 where Deng Xiaoping absorbed corporatism into the communist framework.

Similarly Sweden adopted some light free market reforms in the 1990'ies, yet remains highly centrally planned, with a general socialist ideology that permeates the political landscape.

We can see socialist policies represented in state-owned media, government schools, restrictions on homeschooling, restrictions on firearms, high progressive taxation, KYC/AML regulations, hate speech laws, gender-bender ideology, mass-immigration policies, apartment queuing systems, redistribution of wealth in all sectors, often as bribes in favor of certain political beliefs.

Socialism, corporatism and neo-communism are hard to separate because they are a part of a central planning structure with expanding government power and erosion of individual liberties and private property rights.


Said another way: “The citizens using their freedom of speech on social media sites are more powerful than our propaganda and we can’t have that.”

These despots are really going to hate Nostr when they finally figure it out.

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The Battle of Actium, fought on this day 31 BCE, was a defining moment in Roman history, marking the end of the Roman Republic and paving the way for the establishment of the Roman Empire.

The events leading up to this battle were deeply connected to the power dynamics within the Second Triumvirate and the complex relationships between its key figures.

The Second Triumvirate, formed in 43 BCE, was an uneasy alliance between three powerful men: Octavian, the adopted son and heir of Julius Caesar; Mark Antony, one of Caesar’s most trusted generals; and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, a lesser but influential figure.

Their partnership was initially successful in consolidating power and avenging Caesar's assassination, but it was inherently unstable due to their competing ambitions. Over time, tensions grew, particularly between Octavian and Antony, as each sought to dominate the Roman world.

Mark Antony’s involvement with Cleopatra VII, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, further complicated matters. Cleopatra had previously allied with Julius Caesar, with whom she had a son, Caesarion.

After Caesar’s assassination, she formed a close and politically charged relationship with Antony, which became the subject of scandal and propaganda. Octavian seized upon this, portraying Antony as a traitor to Rome, seduced by the exotic queen of Egypt.

The relationship between Antony and Cleopatra was not merely a personal affair; it was a political alliance that threatened Octavian’s ambitions.

As the rivalry between Octavian and Antony intensified, the stage was set for a final confrontation. The decisive moment came at the Battle of Actium, where Octavian’s forces, commanded by his trusted general Agrippa, faced Antony and Cleopatra’s combined fleet.

The battle was fought off the western coast of Greece, and despite Antony’s naval strength, the outcome was disastrous for him and Cleopatra. Antony’s forces were outmaneuvered and overwhelmed, and in the chaos, Cleopatra’s fleet retreated, leading to a complete rout.

The defeat at Actium spelled the end for Antony and Cleopatra. They fled to Egypt, where, faced with inevitable defeat, they both committed suicide. With their deaths, Octavian emerged as the undisputed ruler of the Roman world.

He soon took the title of Augustus, becoming the first Roman Emperor and marking the end of the Roman Republic.

The Battle of Actium was not just a military victory; it was a turning point that reshaped the course of history. By defeating Antony and Cleopatra, Octavian secured his position as the leader of Rome and laid the foundation for an empire that would dominate the Mediterranean world for centuries.

The battle also marked the end of Egypt as an independent power, as it was absorbed into the Roman Empire, bringing an end to the Hellenistic period that had begun with Alexander the Great. Thus, the outcome of Actium changed the trajectory of Western history, establishing a new order under Roman imperial rule.

These "on this day" posts are inspired by my love of the greatest minds of the Western canon. It is in this spirit that I post these tidbits for the #bitcoin community as a way to bring beauty and knowledge to the world. #Romanhistory #ancientrome #rome


Absolutely.

What solved my critique of the risk of whitelisting loops was when I considered that a court may force exchanges to return user-owned bitcoin - even if that means buying new bitcoin from the free market at a higher exchange rate. This makes the strategy of closed whitelisting loops completely toothless.


Agreed.

While I think that Bitcoin will survive the potential risks of CTV, I never liked the idea of increasing unknown factors.

Perhaps I am wrong in my opposition to CTV and perhaps CTV might be overall beneficial for Bitcoin. Still, we need to think adversially regarding potential risks that could be used to harm the network.

1. Expanding the scripting capabilities. We can expect pros and cons here and it is hard to foresee what these will be.

2. The possibility of creating closed whitelisting loops.

After thinking the second point through over the last few weeks, I am no longer concerned with this scenario. Yet I will share my general thinking process of why I have changed my mind.

As for point 2, if I were to steelman the pro-CTV position, we could argue that all functions that improve security for decentralized Bitcoin users, also can be used by governments to increase the security of government-owned bitcon.

What secures *our* bitcoin as liberty advicates also secures government owned bitcoin, and vice versa. This is an unavoidable and fair situation that benefit Bitcoin.

A hypothetical worst case scenario:

The US, Canada, EU and Australia joins together to prevent bitcoin withdrawals from all exchanges within their respective jurisdictions.

This would not impact the Bitcoin network and sovereign Bitcoin users, but a lot of customers at exchanges would suffer.

Let's say that in this tyrannical scenario, the users of exchanges are only allowed to withdraw their capital in the form of CBDCs, while the exchanges end up holding the exchange-stored bitcoin.

We could then formulate multiple strategies for this alliance of the US and its partners to keep the mentioned exchange-stored bitcoin from being returned to their rightful owners.

One strategy could be via multi-sigs, which of course already exists. If a multi-sig requires signatures from both the US, Canada and the EU, it could be hard to overturn this decision via changing the laws in a single jurisdiction such as the US or the EU.

Another strategy could be to lock in the exchange-stored bitcoin into an unbreakable whitelisting loop, where the US, Canada, EU and Australia all include each other's addresses in a closed whitelisting loop system. If the government of the US is sued and ordered by the supreme court to give back user's bitcoin, it may not be able to.

On the other hand, if this were the case, the US could be forced to buy new bitcoin from the market in order to satisfy customer demands. This would make the whole closed whitelisting loop pointless, apart from it being ineffective from a global trade perspective.

It seems to me that my previous concern over closed whitelisting loops is not valid since it cannot function as a strategy for governments to abolish private property rights of bitcoin users.

My conclusion therefore is that closed whitelisting loops cannot become a threat to Bitcoin.

I am still critical of CTV, but less so than before.


Agreed.

While I think that Bitcoin will survive the potential risks of CTV, I never liked the idea of increasing unknown factors.

Perhaps I am wrong in my opposition to CTV and perhaps CTV might be overall beneficial for Bitcoin. Still, we need to think adversially regarding potential risks that could be used to harm the network.

1. Expanding the scripting capabilities. We can expect pros and cons here and it is hard to foresee what these will be.

2. The possibility of creating closed whitelisting loops.

After thinking the second point through over the last few weeks, I am no longer concerned with this scenario. Yet I will share my general thinking process of why I have changed my mind.

As for point 2, if I were to steelman the pro-CTV position, we could argue that all functions that improve security for decentralized Bitcoin users, also can be used by governments to increase the security of government-owned bitcon.

What secures *our* bitcoin as liberty advicates also secures government owned bitcoin, and vice versa. This is an unavoidable and fair situation that benefit Bitcoin.

A hypthetical worst case scenario:

The US, Canada, EU and Australia joins together to prevent bitcoin withdrawals from all exchanges within their respective jurisdictions.

This would not impact the Bitcoin network and sovereign Bitcoin users, but a lot of customers at exchanges would suffer.

Let's say that in this tyrannical scenario, the users of exchanges are only allowed to withdraw their capital in the form of CBDCs, while the exchanges end up holding the exchange-stored bitcoin.

We could then formulate multiple strategies for this alliance of the US and its partners to keep the mentioned exchange-stored bitcoin from being returned to their rightful owners.

One strategy could be via multi-sigs, which of course already exists. If a multi-sig requires signatures from both the US, Canada and the EU, it could be hard to overturn this decision via changing the laws in a single jurisdiction such as the US or the EU.

Another strategy could be to lock in the exchange-stored bitcoin into an unbreakable whitelisting loop, where the US, Canada, EU and Australia all include each other's addresses in a closed whitelisting loop system. If the government of the US is sued and ordered by the supreme court to give back user's bitcoin, it may not be able to.

On the other hand, if this were the case, the US could be forced to buy new bitcoin from the market in order to satisfy customer demands. This would make the whole closed whitelisting loop pointless, apart from it being ineffective from a global trade perspective.

It seems to me that my previous concern over closed whitelisting loops is not valid since it cannot function as a strategy for governments to abolish private property rights of bitcoin users.

My conclusion therefore is that closed whitelisting loops cannot become a threat to Bitcoin.

I am still critical of CTV, but less so than before.


Yeah.

Inspiration is where the magic happens. Nagging things to death will always be unsuccessful. As it should be.


🙏

It's refreshing to hear normal and nuanced takes. There are so many people that have made it their signum to tell others what to do, which inevitably fails and causes a backlash.


Ironic.

https://image.nostr.build/04b500cb5ce745238820b10f72456ebed2917bd6282b45996f61dea8282c5ce0.jpg

#Meme #Memes #Starwars #Acolyte #Irony #Cancel #Culture


Ironic.

https://image.nostr.build/04b500cb5ce745238820b10f72456ebed2917bd6282b45996f61dea8282c5ce0.jpg

#Meme #Memes #Starwars #Acolyte #Irony


There's plenty of advice circulating about the "right" way to use Bitcoin, but I believe it's largely irrelevant. Everyone has their own unique priorities and approaches, and ultimately, each individual will find their own path.

Simply holding Bitcoin, or possessing the private key to an unspent transaction output (UTXO), is a positive action in itself. People use Bitcoin in various ways, and that's what makes it so powerful. Not spending Bitcoin at all can even be seen as a deflationary gift to the community, so there's no need to judge others - Bitcoin is for everyone to use as they see fit.

At its core, #Bitcoin is a versatile tool that can be utilized in many different ways. There's no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to using Bitcoin.

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


This is the way.

An efficient message must aim at being realistic.


Dzień dobry!
Wspaniała pogoda dzisiaj.

Great summer weather today in Poland this early autumn.


GM folks.


Majority of Americans can’t afford an average home no more thanks to central banking. https://image.nostr.build/30cb96158aa896041f4cf6eeba943b85ad169bac7fea57a75d3c27aeb1138436.jpg


#bitcoin is hope https://image.nostr.build/701c94ba191019e23514e98cbfde76ac782f29b70479fef36a8e5742a46d4cc1.jpg


Thanks!

It's an interesting language, albeit complex.  Even names are impacted by inflection.


Nie gadaj bzdur.

This language rocks the valleys of Mordor. I'm two years in and it's a challenge.😄


They are ramping up to rig the US election via media control.

This tells me how much more the establishment prefers one candidate over the other.


https://image.nostr.build/04cd26e17c7100c47c8d08cc254c7eb3913ff2eeffefcd671b9ca763d4dcdfbf.jpg

Me: I will eat pizza.
My cat: we will.

#Meme #Cat #Polish #Learn #Language


https://image.nostr.build/04cd26e17c7100c47c8d08cc254c7eb3913ff2eeffefcd671b9ca763d4dcdfbf.jpg

Me: I will eat pizza.
My cat: we will.

#Meme #Polish #Learn #Language


Good morning.

We live in reality and we do not create the world around us - however we make our own contributions to the world with our individual impact. We can absolutely create our own corner in the world.

We have the capacity to achieve full control over our minds, albeit we have to work within the framework of what was given to us at birth.


I remember that Myspace added new visual designs and the community was unhappy with the changes, combined with a ton of bugs.

There was a couple of times when I would write to some person I knew on Myspace and it was unclear if they had received the message.

Before the updates, Myspace had worked good enough and after the updates the platform was a disaster so people stopped log in and there was an escalating migration.


From my experience Myspace bled users because of bugs and problems after some updates.

For example, someone sent you a message and you didn't get a notification, so you didn't know that you had a message to respond to.

The technical failures made Myspace completely useless for communication. I suspected that Myspace was sabotaged but it is possible that it was merely mismanagement and poorly tested updates.


One dimension to consider is that if liberty advocates leave a communications channel then there will be fewer voices there to speak up in favor of freedoms.

Group think never goes away completely. I sometimes think of group momentum as an acceleration that reaches a state of directional inertia. Since acceleration is necessary, some amount of group-think becomes a constant.

Only sovereign individuals, usually introverts, are willing to challenge group misconceptions. But since misconceptions are common within groups there is a bombardment of noise that would take enormous energy to combat, hence independents will pick their battles.


Absolutely.

The only problem is that while we consider these concepts with nuances, governments have vested interests in promoting an ideological case for why limited freedom is desirable. And they have in mind a very different set of restraints than we do.

One example of positive restraints are free market commissions. Most of the exceptional art in history was funded via commissions, where the commissioner was a kind of co-creator or producer in more modern terms, hiring artists and musicians for grand scale projects that would take years to finish.

That is the kind of boundary-breaking restraint and incentive structure that push creatives beyond their comfortability horizon.

A restraint that helps us to break boundaries and push through new grounds is possibly not a restraint technically but perhaps more of a voluntary calling, a journey challenging a mountain of our choice. We will forever need mountains to climb.


Politicians normally don’t tell you the truth. This one does though..

Study #bitcoin 🧡 https://video.nostr.build/f14710af8ddd6ce4b9f62e26db143e7b5e5582f86152db176bab5af59b42fd0c.mp4


Code runs the world.

Governments run on policy, determined by ideology.

The UN Agenda 21 was signed by 179 nations in 1992 and is the deeper operative system that persist between old and new governments.

The deep state is the persistent state.


🌟✨⭐💫

Same same! ☀


Definitely wouldn't surprise me if global population figures were a lie...
https://video.nostr.build/7be1b6dac6c781afc5b72cb1aa296633dd4379d80bae09eb7546464b495f033e.mp4


“They’re so desperate, that they censor the truth” — MEP Christine Anderson on  nostr:npub1ms9urcp4yctm00g0w45ydlgsaluddpf203d20cgnhqvlv97nlz8s3s6kln (MEP=Member of European Parliament)

Watch the full episode, links below.

https://v.nostr.build/qS9jLWttvKS3DuYO.mp4


🙏

Jay is amazing and it is an honor to have him here with us on Nostr. I used another of Jays compositions to accompany my wife's art. Shout out to nostr:nprofile1qqs8gfmlmdf7lm2jevwa7ynft85nmnvkl5y0k0kygmuu9vl4xnpadvcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsycpxuh .

https://youtu.be/aaVlXVVF64o


Appreciate your quality content Logan.

I put together a meditational journey with art I have made combined with the piano music of Jay here on Nostr. No AI of course. Shoutout to nostr:nprofile1qqsf8dgkhjtzdlpskceavdulqc35tu00gvcs0nk350rs62v2rvceskcpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuum5dahx2u3wvdhk6qgewaehxw309ac8junpd45kgtnxd9shg6npvchxxmmde4nr8y .

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSmpBownz4

Art should come at us as a force of nature, as wind, sun and rain - neutral and non-political.

Abstractions are a creative rest for the mind. Not everything should be explained or stamped with a logo.

⭐🌟💫


GM. Cheers to new horizons.


Completely rational.
Add the bonus of longer summers.

The regulatory state will always be in conflict with productive individuals that value liberties and quality of life.


We live in a different city several hours away. Mieszkamy daleko od Warszawy i nasza podróż zbyt długo by trwała.


This is so insane…

Brazil banning X and fine anyone $8,000 per day if they see them use X via VPN


A basic respect for property rights are the only path to peace & prosperity.

#Bitcoin #Liberty


Thanks for the invite!

Me and my wife have complex work schedules in the coming months so we won't be able to travel.


Next #Poland Bitcoin meetup:

📍 September 7
📅 BarBazaar, #Warsaw

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

Meet me,  nostr:npub1m0sxqk5uwvtjhtt4yw3j0v3k6402fd35aq8832gp8kmer78atvkq9vgcru  nostr:npub1xpuz4qerklyck9evtg40wgrthq5rce2mumwuuygnxcg6q02lz9ms275ams  nostr:npub1trkudtnp7jg3tmy4sz8mepmgs5wdxk9x2esgts25mgkyecrse7js6ptss5  nostr:npub18s59mqct7se3xkhxr3epkagvuydwtvhpsacj67shrta8eknynegqttz5c3   nostr:npub134d6jtyveg74cuuj7qun4v2m6r7x7c6ryk69z4q7pa7f43kran2sl2yggk  nostr:npub1a4thftyy7u9fu89pgqn7ql0guepuaawu7034jvnx3p4mw3tpr3wq345l7s and others offline!


GM folks. ☀🌞🌻


Yes. And the worst part is that I have seen some Norwegians excuse the law and say that vaccine mandates will never happen.

Yet the law explicitly allows for mandated vaccinations and unlimited restrictions of the unvaccinated, as determined by the municipality per a carte blanche.


A Norwegian law from 2023 allows for mandated vaccinations of "either the whole population or parts of the population".

The law also allows the discrimination of unvaccinated individuals where they may be subject to quarantine within an area and obliged to follow every edict of the municipality.

These are clear violations of the Nuremberg laws that were signed after WW2 where the informed consent for every medical procedure was determined to be absolutely necessary in order to prevent future crimes and abuses against human rights.

https://image.nostr.build/b13b3c5f2c23fc7d980426c4ecc979ee8e241efe7eb186da0045b1550d59c8be.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/45c9d03d620522eec4883dca4614ed79e6f2a9bc07d63079fdd1033291487751.jpg

Norwegian law document source:

Paragraph 3-8:

https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1994-08-05-55/KAPITTEL_3#%C2%A73-8

#Norway #Norge #Vaccine #Mandate #Forced #Vaccination #Law


A Norwegian law from 2023 allows for mandated vaccinations of "either the whole population or parts of the population".

The law also allows the discrimination of unvaccinated individuals where they may be subject to quarantine within an area and obliged to follow every edict of the municipality.

These are clear violations of the Nuremberg laws that were signed after WW2 where the informed consent for every medical procedure was determined to be absolutely necessary in order to prevent future crimes and abuses against human rights.

https://image.nostr.build/b13b3c5f2c23fc7d980426c4ecc979ee8e241efe7eb186da0045b1550d59c8be.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/45c9d03d620522eec4883dca4614ed79e6f2a9bc07d63079fdd1033291487751.jpg

Norwegian law document source:

Paragraph 3-8:

https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1994-08-05-55/KAPITTEL_3#%C2%A73-8

#!Norway #Norge #Vaccine #Mandate #Forced #Vaccination #Law


Imagine.
Imagine a better world.

No more central banks.
No more moneyprinting and wars.
No more WHO or United Nations.
No more BIS and IMF.
No more EU and WEF..

https://image.nostr.build/66ecb0de28ccdf2831c3bfabfbba17906ffa804fa8fa7209a0e8db37286f9a86.jpg

You may call us dreamers.
And we are legion.

#Bitcoin #UN #UnitedNations


This is the way.

Bitcoin will open up a world where people have the option to retire early or move on to chase their passions at 30-50, instead of waiting indefinitely.

This will free up vacant spots for the young generation and young adults will find matching jobs more easily, allowing them to start family building at a younger age.

Next piece in the puzzle is developing cheap and abundant energy, which could happen within 10-70 years, with new physics such as QI by Mike McCulloch.


This is why when we're on a global Bitcoin standard I believe people will be financially free after only 10 - 15 years of time in the workforce, instead of the current 40 - 50.

Imagine how much better life would be if everyone worked only as much as they wanted to, because everything was affordable. This is what Bitcoin truly gives us, our lives back.


Consumerism is a value of the fiat system. It is both literally a value, since we measure economic health in large part by measuring consumption, and also an ingrained mode of behavior. By disincentivizing mindless, reflexive consumption and incentivizing a lower time preference, #Bitcoin, if it continues to grow in adoption, offers the promise of a cultural foregrounding of deeper things, like fulfilling pursuits, relationships, creativity, contribution to community, presence, etc.

#Bitcoin is money that, through its soundness, will hopefully allow us to actually get past thinking about money all the time so that we can make room for life’s important things - which tend to get lost, neglected, and/or sacrificed in consumption and the systemically coerced pursuit of more and more money.

We spend so much time thinking about money (how to get it, how to get more of it, how to make it grow, how to keep up with inflation, how to invest it, how to spend it, what to spend it on, how to get rich quick, how to pay the bills, etc). And to a certain extent this will always be true.

But when money does not hold its value, when it is continuously debased, when the sovereign debt is so massive it must be inflated away, and when the economic health of a country is measured by how much it consumes, it creates an environment in which money is practically all we think about.

Looking forward to a world in which this is no longer the case.


Well said Logan.

I agree about the potentials for cultural innovation and revitalization on a Bitcoin standard. It's one of the most inspiring dimensions of hard money - when we no longer need to think about money and inflation and can focus on more important matters of culture.

I was curious some time ago to explore how much of our savings are lost due to inflation.

As I went ahead and wrote a short program, I found that at 2% yearly inflation and zero taxes, we experience a ~35% loss of purchasing power on our accumulated savings over a 45 year career.

Since we are aware that the CPI figures are politically cherrypicked and don't measure the actual cost of living, a ~7% yearly inflation will better match the expansion of the money supply (M2) and the value increase of the stock market.

At 7% yearly inflation and zero taxes, we lose ~71% of purchasing power on savings over a 45 year career.

Add taxes and we lose more than 80% of our purchasing power on savings during a normal career.

Below are four different examples of cumulative inflation presented on a year-by-year basis.

By showing the data I hope to visualize the problems of inflation with some additional clarity. When we have ~3% left of our savings from 45 years ago, we enter a mindboggling territory of theft.

https://image.nostr.build/5d5a6d70d01d34df73297e4ae75196ce39a3f3a64560a1939ea7ea2f69880df2.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/1d81d64c1986bf407a521e0dcf9e088618a4df59df263292936efbad331c7c9a.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/0902852ae0f7e4977115bda795a64bc9075962e7c7701cd20596d6e9c9594972.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/29e105b5087f3106e6d507f77721cd326a57276beadf7529ce815821cf1f7207.jpg

#Inflation


Well said Logan.

I agree about the potentials for cultural innovation and revitalization on a Bitcoin standard. It's one of the most inspiring dimensions of hard money - when we no longer need to think about money and inflation and can focus on more important matters of culture.

I was curious some time ago to explore how much of our savings are lost due to inflation.

As I went ahead and wrote a short program, I found that at 2% yearly inflation and zero taxes, we experience a ~35% loss of purchasing power on our accumulated savings over a 45 year career.

Since we are aware that the CPI figures are politically cherrypicked and don't measure the actual cost of living, a ~7% yearly inflation will better matche the expansion of the money supply (M2) and the value increase of the stock market.

At 7% yearly inflation and zero taxes, we lose ~71% of purchasing power on savings over a 45 year career.

Add taxes and we lose more than 80% of our purchasing power on savings during a normal career.

Below are four different examples of cumulative inflation visualized on a year-by-year basis.

By showing the data I hope to visualize the problems of inflation with some additional clarity. When we have ~3% left of our savings from 45 years ago, we enter mindboggling territory of theft.

https://image.nostr.build/5d5a6d70d01d34df73297e4ae75196ce39a3f3a64560a1939ea7ea2f69880df2.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/1d81d64c1986bf407a521e0dcf9e088618a4df59df263292936efbad331c7c9a.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/0902852ae0f7e4977115bda795a64bc9075962e7c7701cd20596d6e9c9594972.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/29e105b5087f3106e6d507f77721cd326a57276beadf7529ce815821cf1f7207.jpg

#Inflation


GM. Sunny late summer afternoon here in Poland.


The Matrix likes the orange coin.


My savings would have melted away if it wasn't for Bitcoin.

Also, no way I'm crossing borders with painfully hidden gold watches.😄

When humanity develop cheap and abundant energy, gold will be fabricated at low cost while Bitcoin chugs along more decentralized than ever.


Right, I remember a man was sentenced to jail for mentioning the visual appearance of a politician.

The Thought Police busy with work.

Die Gedankenpolizei


I will simply never vote for a candidate who proposes taxing unrealized gains.

On this issue I think slippery slope arguments are valid and historically grounded.

I also think it betrays a fundamental lack of understanding and economic illiteracy.

More troublingly, it indicates a perspective on the relationship between government and citizen that I think is anti-American. nostr:note1n5feqtv6nd4lvcrufnjvpdzaer2lv7cf07v38th6zlkzpt0w3e6qcej3vk


The mass adoption of #Bitcoin will make a more creative world. It will unleash reservoirs of untapped creativity AND, perhaps most importantly, it will restore the audience’s capacity to receive art as a gift.

In other words, it will transform art’s role in culture and society. It will take back some of the ground ceded (and surrendered) to the forces of commodification and financialization.

Here’s how:

In his book, The Gift, Lewis Hyde described art as existing (with friction) in two economies: the gift economy and the market economy.

“A work of art can survive without the market,” he wrote, “but where there is no gift, there is no art.”

He’s referring both to the way art is created and the way it’s received by the audience. Art is the “emanation of its maker’s gift,” which is to say both the maker’s talent and his/her intuition, neither of which can be bought.

With respect to the audience, “art that moves us is received by us as a gift is received,” which is to say “when we are touched by a work of art something comes to us which has nothing to do with the price.”

#Bitcoin improves the environment on both sides of this gift equation.

A lot of people allow their creativity muscles to atrophy in the daily relentless pursuit of sustenance and getting by, a pursuit that is increasingly difficult when you are running uphill against inflation.

More people getting on a bitcoin standard will gradually allow would-be creators to buy back more time, giving them room to breathe artistically. It’s almost like being able to give yourself a grant that vests in the future.

I also think we will see a boom in artistic patronage, as newly wealthy bitcoiners look to facilitate the creation of great works, support artists they love, commission and finance projects that take long periods of time to complete, etc.

On the audience side, the fiat system has gradually degraded the audience’s capacity to receive art as a gift. We are working longer hours for less purchasing power, while things like houses, higher education, and healthcare grow comically unaffordable for most.

Our money loses value so, rather than save, we are incentivized to spend, invest, or speculate. We are also the most advertised-to humans to ever walk the earth. Not exactly the ideal environment for tackling a long novel, listening to a record front-to-back, memorizing a poem, staring at a painting, or watching a serious film.

Bitcoin, I believe, can help facilitate a return of the gift exchange ethos, in the Lewis Hyde sense, to creators and, more importantly, to the audience.

Bitcoin, by instilling a low time preference culture, restores the audience’s capacity to receive art as a gift, a capacity which fiat currency’s high time preference culture has broken.

As a lover of the arts, this gets me really excited.


Followed!


Music nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg nostr:npub1jw63d0ykym7rpd3n6cme7p3rghc77se3ql8drg78p55c5xe3npdscrh29m


NIP-26
Delegated Event Signing

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/26.md


That's a great NIP solution.

The main issue I see is in cases where the root key is already compromised. It also requires a fully secure handling of the root key.

If we implement NIP-26 and then create new root keys from scratch, we could safely move from our old Nostr identities to new ones.


Good post. 🙏

Your analysis though is missing a dive into the centralization gravity of the tech architecture itself.

I understand your point that there will always be a psychopath willing to subsidize freedom. Maybe that’s true and continues. It’s been true so far.

But psychopaths are not enough to keep nostr decentralized.

Relays are NOT equivalent. A relay with 100k users is not the same as a relay with two users.

Relays equal reach. Everyone wants the greatest audience for their posts and to never miss a post from someone they follow. This creates a natural incentive to connect to the largest relays.

The problem with the architecture is that nostr clients limit the number of relays you can have. For example, nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 recommends ten or less.

This means that when you’re limited to the number of relays, you want to connect to the largest (greatest cache of content and most connected users). Nobody wants to connect to the smallest.

This creates a centralizing gravity where relays get larger and more concentrated. Eventually we could end up with 10 massive relays. There would be no need for the 11th so few people would connect to it.

As you know from your analysis on shitcoin blockchains, they have a natural centralizing gravity. They need to be faster and cheaper than their competitors. This forces them to go POS and run fewer, larger nodes to increase throughput.

Nostr’s architecture has this same centralizing gravity.

This needs to be discussed, verified, and if confirmed… then fixed.

Ultimately, we’re not on team nostr v1. We’re all on team freedom and privacy.

nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z


Absolutely. But for relays relaying a ton of users I have to expect that my notes may not persist indefinitely.

Yes, for users that worry about their notes being deleted, running their own relay is a solution.

I responded to claims that notes are persistent. They might be, we don't know that yet.


Absolutely. But for relays relaying a ton of users I have to expect that my notes may not persist indefinitely.

Yes, for users that worry about theit notes being deleted, running their own relay is a solution.

I responded to claims that notes are persistent. They might be, we don't know that yet.


Agreed. Then there is the problem of a single private key. If that key is compromised, we are no longer in control over our identity. This is particularly problematic for companies that need to share their private key with several people.

If Nostr were to have two private keys, one of them a master key with admin capabilities for the identity, the protocol would need a new architecture.

As a result, whenever a Nostr spin-off architecture solves this problem, every company, corporation and security-minded user will migrate to the protocol with higher security. That's just how things work.


Either Nostr evolves to have every client being a relay, or it will fail. The risk is the same as that of LSPs.

Think adversarially and think far into the future. Imagine Nostr running at Telegram scale with 1B users, not the tight knit community is now.


Sure, but storage is costly.

We don't know yet how long we can expect Nostr notes to last. I have some Nostr notes that are 1.5 years but for all I know they could be deleted tomorrow.


Coming soon to a free country near you https://image.nostr.build/7c5cf8c5bc6f6c7cb46198803479c3887115b7dec8dde92f6dfb8f3c33a8e82e.jpg


When I joined Nostr it was said that we shouldn't expect notes to last longer than 6 months, due to relays needing to free up space regularly.

I like the idea of notes surviving for 10+ years but I'm not sure how realistic that is.


On twitter I have to compress ideas into a cryptic format, cut away some nuances and sometimes accept an approximate result that I'm not fully happy with, just because I can't cram in the full meaning into the character limit.

On Nostr I need to restrain myself artificially and brevity becomes a really flexible term.😄


I'm zappable. Will spread around the zap 23 times in 21 sat increments.


"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it." — Michel de Montaigne

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


Trump, alongside RFK Jr., pledges to create a presidential commission to declassify all JFK assassination documents if re-elected.
https://m.primal.net/KPtw.mov


Hopefully not a German with 13 kilograms of hidden gold watches**.

**Pulp Fiction reference.


I need to find the #Bitcoin gang on here! 😅


Great to have you here Logan. It is uplifting to see more focus on literature and art.

I reposted an earlier text I wrote on Aristotle, art and poetry.

nostr:nevent1qqs26a9ues66t9j4ngh3x7epvya6reqyhe8d2n5wyqe74rduhnkx7pcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsygpr6jfegcf9s4cxcu5s3f0rjp8e29m75zrmqvkahlxjsc3sf37esvpsgqqqqqqs0rftxm


Aristotle: art and poetry, based on his book Poetics. (Repost from early 2023)

The below quote is from Will Durant as he attempts to encapsulate Aristotle's view on art:

https://i.imgur.com/tJYuxa6.jpg

When I came across this statement from Will Durant I decided to re-read Aristotle's Poetics to see how representative it was.

Aristotle studied at Plato's Academy in Athens, which brings continuity from Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle.

Plato:

"And when someone honors beauty more than virtue, this constitutes nothing other than a real and thorough dishonoring of the soul" // Plato, Laws, Book B, 727d.

Socrates and Plato held an often times contemptful view of the poet or artist, expressed on several occasions in Plato's Republic.

This is likely because the artist was viewed as an imitator, in the negative sense. Reality is of course of higher value than any imitation. We might add to this that Socrates was sometimes ridiculed by contemporary poets.

Another point of irritation for Socrates was when poets celebrated and waxed sentimental over unethical men and portrayed them as heroes. It is possible that this latter case was Socrates' primary annoyance with the art of poetry.

Aristotle:

"What aims at reality is better than what aims at appearance".

// Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book I, 1365-b.

While there is overlap here between Aristotle and Plato there is also a clear divide. Plato is mainly concerned with ethics whereas Aristotle is more fascinated with analysis and substance. The ethics is obvious to Aristotle, what interests him even more is the practical considerations that can be made.

Aristotle continues:

"What a man wants to be, is better than what a man wants to seem (to be), for in aiming at that he is aiming more at reality".

Here Plato would focus on the ethical reasoning of 'being rather than seeming', while Aristotle is primarily occupied with the alignment to reality. For Aristotle, actions define us and it is through action that we realize our potentials. This in turn requires aims that are followed through - a fully practical process that does not involve pretense, but instead work and sweat. The point for Aristotle is not to spend time despising others for being unethical, but to inspire the proper practical achievement.

"And it is also natural for all to delight in works of imitation."

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 3, 1448-b-9

Aristotle's remark here relates to delighting in realistic representations of things. He points out that we learn something from observing a realistic imitation.

Aristotle continues by observing that 'learning' is the 'greatest of pleasures'. He expands to say that 'gathering the meaning of things' is a part of what he is referring to by learning.

There is in Aristotle a focus on substance that isn't isolated to exterior appearance, but rather to attain some form of understanding of what we are observing.

In the artform of Tragedy, Aristotle counts six parts, where he highlights the Plot.

"And again: the most powerful elements of attraction in Tragedy, the Peripeties and Discoveries, are parts of the Plot".

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 6, 1461.33

He continues:

"We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot".

Aristotle then lists Characters as the second most important part of the Tragedy art form:

"Characters come second - compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order will not give one the same pleasure as a simple black-and-white sketch of a portrait".

There is in Aristotle a focus on actions, meaning and realism. Beautiful, decorative details are less important than capturing the true essence of something.

It is the plot and characters that makes the story significant to us, not the dramaturgical expressions on a stage; the Spectacle.

"The Spectacle, though an attraction, is the least artistic of all the parts, and has least to do with the art of poetry. The tragic effect is quite possible without a public performance and actors."

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 6, 1450.b.16

"From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen."

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 7, 1451.a.35

There is attention to realism in terms of artistic plausibility, while not necessarily an exact imitation.

He continues:

"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars".

Art builds upon timeless principles that can be understood intuitively and metaphorically, whereas history is locked into specifics.

"It is evident from the above that the poet must be more the poet of his stories or Plots than of his verses".

Again, Aristotle is looking at the meaningful significance of actions, plot and characters, rather than the exact outward format of the verse.

"Of simple Plots and actions, the episodic are the worst. I call a Plot episodic when there is neither probability nor necessity in the sequence of its episodes".

Improbable elements in a story are serious flaws for Aristotle. This is also an extension of his realism.

"The Plot in fact should be so framed that, even without seeing the things take place, he who simply hears the account of them shall be filled with horror and pity at the incidents."

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 14, 1453.b.3

This is worth some reflection. Aristotle attempts to identify some kind of markers at this point by which we can identify a gripping plot. In short, it must stand on its own legs. This is yet another example of Aristotle's focus on the inner workings of a story or plot over the outward expression.

His realism is attuned to the inner, psychological motivations and plausible depictions of these, rather than merely ornamental or visual effects.

"The tragic pleasure is that of pity and fear, and the poet has to produce it by a work of imitation".

This perfectly encapulates Aristotle's positive use of the term imitation. The imitation he is talking about is an alignment with realistic internal realms, and how those can extend to the audience and create a meaningful experience.

"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it."

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 24, 1460.a.26

"Any impossibilities there may be in his description of things are faults.

But from another point of view they are justifiable, if they serve the end of poetry itself - if they make the effect of either that portion of the work or some other portion more astounding"

(1460.b.23)

This is where Aristotle shines, as he's playing the devil's advocate against his own argument.

While he is not yielding from his fiercely anchored principles, he is offering an alternative solution. If the artistic expression benefits it is possible depart from these strict guidelines.

At the end of the day, a compelling result is what matters.

In conclusion, I think it's fair to attribute the quote to Will Durant, as an interpretative summary of Aristotle on art. The inward significance is clearly highlighted in Aristotle. With some nuances.

Thank you for reading.

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