This. Without the obstacles and the struggle there is no triumph.

Heraclitus brilliance was in vocalizing paradoxes that are true. We both step into the same river twice and we also don't. We both visit the same place again and yet we don't. We are both the same person that we were and at the same time we are not. Persistence and change coexist.


It will definitely happen and I see both positive and negative outcomes.

My suspicion is that individuals who are dependent on AI to build an app will have difficulties changing the code and its structure. This may result in high numbers of "meh" apps that users need to filter out in order to find the rare gems.

I don't oppose this at all, people are free to create, but as we rely more and more on filtering out the sub-par, we simultaneously delegate more power to whoever design the search/filtering mechanism.

It might have the positive effect of inspiring some people to learn more, yet those are also the same people that can learn from a traditional programming book or video tutorial. Doing the work is always necessary for familiarity and understanding.

The takeaway from AI art generation is that it put art production in the hands of individuals with a high degree of unknown unknowns; individuals that don't have the experience to know how much they don't know in the field. Probably the same applies to programming. It takes working directly with something from the ground up to develop the thinking process to a point of experience.


Even if #Bitcoiners were less toxic:

➡ Terra Luna would still have blown up
➡ 3AC would still have imploded
➡ Celsius would still have gone bankrupt
➡ Solana would still need reboots
➡ Ethereum would still be captured by regulators
➡ DeFi would still get hacked regularly
 - nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a

#BitcoinTwitter
https://bitcointwitter.web.app/images/v3/112.png


Probably her reposting a day late, I am just used to people verifying their pubkey publicly so that people don't have to speculate.


I see that she has posted that she is on Nostr, she just haven't posted her pubkey as far as I know.

Since no other Alejandra shows up on the Nostr search, perhaps she just cross posts when she has time.

https://twitter.com/MissBitcoin_sv/status/1665881169085231110


Looks like whoever posts from the account copied this Twitter post from yesterday.

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This was posted on Alejandras Twitter account yesterday, when the small pullback happened.

I haven't seen her verify this Nostr account from Twitter yet.

https://twitter.com/MissBitcoin_sv/status/1742679787460506078


Best #meme description of a #bitcoin er I have ever seen. https://video.nostr.build/dd04d5e1723d5da91c41b87a821f8c010f18d7eb25502861fdc41a901ea36c60.mp4


If anyone is interested, I wrote a longer piece on John Locke's view on property rights:

nostr:nevent1qqsgpn0mnvezh6gdepp2lm7unqp32h5fcpur0k75902s25zpx7pwgdqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyq3afyu5vyjc2urvw2gg5h3eqnu4zal2ppasxtwmlnfgvgcyclvcxqcyqqqqqqgldu9h2


No, on the contrary.

Owning yourself is another way of expressing that you are born free and sovereign; you are your own master, without external masters. (Except perhaps god if you are religious, yet that is a voluntary choice).

Your sovereignty as a free, self-governing individual is inherent in your biology. You can't transfer ownership of your body; your mind is still there. You can sell your organs, but this implies that you already own your body.

This goes back to John Locke whose ideas provided a groundwork for the abolition of slavery. When you own yourself, nobody else can lay a claim to own you, or the fruits of your labor. Hence slavery becomes a violation of property rights.

John Locke, 1690:

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"Every man has a "property" in his own "person". This nobody has any right to but himself. The "labour" of his body and the "work" of his hands, we may say, are properly his. (Part 2, Chapter 5.27, page 130, Two Treatises of Government)
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This is about individual sovereignty and liberty principles.


My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you do. No other person, or group of persons, owns your life nor do you own the lives of others.

https://video.nostr.build/87003c81bd1276fa2b3ce7d4819b8a3fa92811ca3af7a505e6dc26d48fd206ef.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=720x720&blurhash=UN9QqOkEN%25a%23OLofs%3Aa%24XBjYsQWUV%40WAWUj%3F&x=d257a65d8c7a29ed13fe6ee084a83d4c4e0df12460a0b21c42e617df7e93569b


The legitimate role of government in a free society. Great talk by Walter Williams, 2013.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zT7dN4tNzvg&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D


The US national debt is more than 3x what it was when bitcoin launched. Put another way, 68% of the debt that this country has accrued over the last 248 years was added over the last 15 years, or 6% of the country's lifetime.

https://tftc.io/bitcoin-15-years/


"Let me offer you my definition of social justice. I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you and why?"

-- Walter E. Williams

#Quotes #Liberty #Philosophy #Quote

https://image.nostr.build/dcb288abcb5b7652899cb88f8b36c8fd71f4f7a08535571111fb6ff4dfdcf159.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=864x565&blurhash=r6AvOX03xt%3D_0L%7EBE1M%7B-pH%3F%3FuD*nN%25gD%25-oI%40rqJCIA-%3AEMwcxuIV-oNHE%2B%24%24Iox%5DR5S%23xuIU%25MIoxat7IU%3FHE2oI%25MD*SzRQoLkWRPtRV%40smg4&x=63420b2d8e32dc35571dd4ebb3f10d1a982ec60b101d23810d86a1f8c99580d2


Good overview.

Yes, accessibility would mean that the user is not prevented from accessing what they should be able to access. This would overlap with general bug fixing and problem solving for the base functionality.

Agreed that usability comes before effectiveness. Effectiveness involves among other things switching between menus and engaging in a work flow.

Visual design: make it appealing and easy to interpret from a user perspective, assuming varying degrees of familiarity with what is happening under the hood.


Yes, it kinda boils down to gut feeling.

Also it depends what something is used for. A menu in a workplace or a game needs to be efficient due to its high usage. Thin scroll lists can be hell for players using a mouse on screen, while it may work ok on a tablet or phone.

Then, scrolling is dependent on the number of items to scroll through. It works great for quick scrolls but if the list is long enough, it is no longer efficient. That which is not efficient will be skipped. So there is a scroll horizon at some point, past which few will thread.😄

Just my ramblings.
Gut feeling works fine too.


Finally the first part of my Halving series is complete after almost 250 hours within ~4000 blocks! It is peppered with many mathematical easter eggs around block 210000.
https://image.nostr.build/7e805588e760f61724accacb90d9b2a643e8b9cf8bf51423ff18d147de921d89.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=724x1024&blurhash=%5E9EV%2B%3ARjt7M%7B%7EqWBWBRjofayt7ay9Ft7M%7BofIUoft7ofWBayt7j%5B%3Fbj%5Bxuof%25May%25MayRjayxufQD%25j%5Bt7j%5BWBof%25Mj%5BIUayxuj%5B%3FbWBj%5BWBxuWB&x=0855b9ffa9d14147d0bb78870e72c01405e73cf203d7a49065814153525699d1


I think you are critiquing sterile design, and I agree with that.

A clean design is not necessarily a sterile design and can look quite different depending on the vision.

Clean design to me is a balanced design, not too cluttered. Some menus need to be complex and have an array of important options available. That structure should consider usability first, then design.

1. Usability
2. Visual design, without sacrificing 1.

With usability I'm referring to fast and easy workflows where users are not running a tough obstacle course. There should be a general attitude of sympathy for users that interact with the UI a lot.

Visual design can go wild as long as the usability is good. Clean visual design involves un my view for example adhering to a chosen thematic style. Mixing styles can quickly feel unbalanced.


Let me get this right..
https://v.nostr.build/DMMJ.mp4


Offense (like intent) exists only in a person's head & not in reality at all. There is zero harm in offending people. The freedom to cause offense is 100% necessary to the teaching/learning process. "Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" is something people used to be taught from young ages. Now everyone has horrible personal boundaries because they are taught that how they feel is everyone else's responsibility rather than completely their own.

We are seeing the consequences of incorrect foundational belief systems playing out. If someone is afraid of getting sick, it's on them to stay home or protect themselves in whatever way they can, they can't require that everyone else stay home until they prove they are healthy. You can't externalize the cost of your fear onto everyone else & not be a tyrant. Sick until proven healthy is no different than calling people guilty until proven innocent. When people invert fundamental principles they transform life into hell, & many will almost deserve it.


Well said.

I wrote this below post in early 2022 as an attempt to systematize a few key differences between free markets vs rigged markets or central planning, in relation to Covid and similar authoritarian medical overreach.

https://image.nostr.build/f8c2a5714142bac2648cee653f5f93a3d71e54f991aef603ec1a6be2ad004165.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=524x693&blurhash=_4Ryvm00-%3Da_-%3Ba_-%3B_3M_Rjogj%5BofRjIURiWBxuayRjj%5DxbofWAt7ofayay%25MRjxut7aej%5DRj%7EqM%7BRjt8j%5BofWB%5E%2CWBIUt7a%23ofj%5DM%7BofazWBxuR%25WBD%25M%7Bxuj%5Bj%40WVWB&x=f8a3b61d1458c1b565195e02253ace779259b1d51db5ba7bd4716c110914fa8f


Happy New Year! 🤟

https://i.nostrimg.com/ab47b4676813da002c748db7631b59b9e22f674aac363bcfdc4ddc0a6038ce63/file.gif


Happy 2024 to all the #Bitcoiners! 🎉

Especially the Laser Eyed, Toxic Maximalists, trolls, and so on.

We’ve been called many things throughout history: heretics, blasphemers, witches etc, but we’re the ones that move the world forward.

Keep at it
For #Bitcoin
For the future https://image.nostr.build/cff2719859c018ec032c135f29629345df21d50485ee0f02736e6a96d2d2ec3a.gif


Happy New Year from Europe!


Happy Halving New Year! 🌟⭐✨


Happy 2024 halving! (And new year)

https://void.cat/d/KyDHw72JjDmrd1qGUSrteW.webp


The Euro is celebrating 25 years.
Bitcoin is celebrating 15 years.

Cheers for the next century .🌟✨✨

Chart:
Euro vs #Bitcoin over the past 5 years.

https://image.nostr.build/3b522eafba842bccf8110f955db668531fc9fbce0eaf8506bc360a1f4cd49469.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1073x427&blurhash=Z3S%7En%25j%5BIAV%40oLyDMdt7bb.TRjM%7BIAozWVRPV%40kW00j%5BM%7BM%7Bx%5DWBkCt7jZ%25%7DMxDOXSx%5Dn%25kWozR5&x=ab57a3ee111d4be65e965e3119a381a2148278c617664952211bb69ca0e36551


Recursive Demand Shock™

That’s it. That’s the note and other stuff.


Before past was past,
Past was now.

Before past was now,
Past was future.

The Bitcoin low price window is but a brief entrance to eternity.


You lovely folks have zapped over 5 BTC via over 2,000,000 zaps this year!


Agreed, StackSats.

Spreading awareness of the dangers of CBDC's is important.

The negativity is not a result from informing others of the harmful implications of CBDC's, but rather when the critics don't offer a viable technical solution, such as Bitcoin. Without a solution the criticism quickly becomes defeatism.

Governments need full control over CBDC's, which is why they are hell-bent to stay in charge over the protocol design, even if they outsource the actual work.

I have no doubt that liberty and Bitcoin will triumph, yet it is vital that people reject CBDC's en masse.


Very much disagree with this, it’s a pretty naive take.

- Australia’s CBDC was outsourced to the private sector, mostly the banks, and it’s successfully passed the pilot phase - so much for not giving up their debt creation, they’re working hand in glove with central banks
- Privacy doesn’t override shit for normies. I’ll just point to Snowden’s revelations as evidence if any is needed. If CBDCs are tied to UBI they will jump in head first with no consideration for the implications on privacy and only later look for outside routes when they understand reality.
- We always had gold as a sovereign currency, no-one used it because it wasn’t fit for purpose in the digital age. Sovereign alone isn’t enough, it needs to work for what people/institutions want to use it for.
- There are already functional cross-border CBDCs (Singapore-China) and others have been successfully piloted (read BIS)
- Digital Currency already exists in every fiat system. It’s not that different to a CBDC, that’s just amalgamating them into a unified system.

If post WW2 monetary order was a design choice, what makes you think they’ll make a design choice for something they can’t control? Listen to saifedean or Lyn discussing the uptake of fiat / exit from gold standard in WW1 - once one nation went they all did because game theory effectively forced them to as you can’t win a war against a money printer if you don’t have one yourself.

We’ve got what, 1 country which has decided to take the hard route of getting out from under the IMF and they’re not even done yet - everyone else just keeps sucking that teat. Even Milei is going begging to them.

We’re not going to see CBDCs on Bitcoin-backed fedimints - this is delusional.

Bitcoin will be used but not in this way. It will be the hedge system between the USD world and the BRICS world for countries that can’t/wont go all in on either and simply occupying that position will see it eventually eat both (not Gresham’s law - you’ve made the common mistake of inverting it). It will also form the black market currency for individuals for any transaction people want to make outside the government’s purview which initially just replaces cash but will eat all the usecases they try to impose their dystopia on.

To say you’re unafraid is fine. I’m not afraid of money either. But I see what they’re trying to achieve and given there is no greater prize than control of the money (per Rothschild himself) I think it’s pretty shortsighted to just claim this is “doom-circle-jerk analysis”.

They ARE playing for sheepstations, they’re not going to fuck this up coming from incumbency against a rebel network with 1% uptake.

Bitcoin will win eventually but CBDCs are coming and freedom is going when they do. https://i.nostr.build/QO5q.jpg


When the base experience is free there is no need to pay. I don't pay for twitter, yet some choose to pay for additional features.


Yes;

Vote for your favorite Mafia every 4 years.

Though, the traditional mafia didn't have ambitions to indoctrinate your children and tell you what to think, as long as you paid your protection fee. Protection-against-the-mafia fee.


It's a spectacle designed to scare the public and have them disarmed. This is also why our governments have been soft on crime for 30+ years. Politicians need the criminals to scare the public into submission to rigorous regulations.


Zelensky also arrested political opponents but the propaganda machine liked him. The beliefs of some people are simply determined by external social forces devoid of any conscious thought.
https://image.nostr.build/45fd19b267638b090aa8a09d7ce29b76d3054ef0698202246dbba9d8d956e05d.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=702x665&blurhash=%7ClMaFi_NM%7BMxIo-pM%7BD*WBofayoLj%5BayofWVf5azoeazkCj%5BaykCj%5DWBfQflWBaxofoff6oeWCof-%3BxaR*RjV%40R*j%5BaeWBaxofj%5DWBaebHj%5Baefkj%5Djsa%7Ba%23WBf6j%5BfRayf6fkWBoLWCWBj%5BkCofoea%7Df6ayj%5Bazj%5Bj%5Bj%5B&x=fdf4974e5c2cd7096cadbae3b8fe7661a0a3d63406c9545addf1c5109e24511d


100%

When the base experience is free and the premium features come with subscription, funding is merely a matter of user base growth.


I honestly don’t understand why developers are so terrified of monetizing their products. All you need is a few premium features and your biggest fans will jump at the opportunity to pay you for your work. Stay away from monetization that makes your UX worse but don’t avoid it altogether.


One option is to keep the base experience free, with certain features included in a subscription model. If balanced properly it allows for both open use and funding.

The main hurdle is user adoption. Only a small percentage of a user base will pay a monthly fee.


Watch the face of Ceaușescu and his wife as they are booed and heckled for the 1st time in their long, brutal reign.

It's the beginning of the end.

4 days later, the Ceaușescus were executed by firing squad, the last to suffer capital punishment under communism in Europe.

https://video.nostr.build/2d55db679dc51a4a4ebf7ddbd6db110d9b5dc1d6ed909ff0fc5c272205d93b49.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=480x360&blurhash=%23RNTtQD%2B9Gt7M%7BRjIUaeM%7B_MxutRM%7CRjj%5Bj%3DWUWB4nWVWVofofWBj%5BjuoMxcRlWCkBj%3Ff6WCf6kBR%25t6t7WBWVbFj%5Bayaft7k9axofj%5BWBWCayfRRkjsofj%3FaxoefPaya%7B&x=c17cd5c01be8c0f698caea75396acefb5f87ab44d1a676e847cc57f324cf3875


A reminder that public perception is the only difference between a tyrant being in power, vs a tyrant reaping the karma of the evil they have sown.


Build it and they will come!! Christmas Eve at the Booths.

Merry Christmas!! https://video.nostr.build/d41f808219534852ca1e44acc4a3560110867446d461f56564461d202c054925.mp4


Likewise, stay healthy.
Na zdrowie!


God jul!


I write, therefore the pen is.
Merry christmas/yule.


While they begin Quantitative Easing again, we will perform another scheduled Quantitative Hardening. #Bitcoin


Now less than a week later the average fee is around $4 - $5 per tx.

In the above example with a 100x increase in both exchange rate and transactions:

$20,000 - $450 = 19,550.


A few quotes from John Locke's "Two treatises of government", 1690, to illustrate the meme:

"For I have reason to conclude that he who would get me into his power without my consent would use me as he pleased when he had got me there, and destroy me too when he had a fancy to it; for nobody can desire to have me in his absolute power unless it be to compel me by force to that which is against the right of my freedom -- i.e. make me a slave." (Book 2, Chapter 3.18)

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"This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief who has not in the least hurt him, nor declared any design upon his life, any farther than by the use of force, so to get him in his power as to take away his money, or what he pleases, from him;

Because using force, where he has no right to get me into his power, let his pretense be what it will, I have no reason to suppose that he who would take away my liberty would not, when he had me in his power, take away everything else.

And, therefore, it is lawful for me to treat him as one who has put himself into a state of war with me -- i.e. kill him if I can; for that hazard does he justly expose himself whoever introduces a state of war, and is aggressor in it." (3.19)


But you see, the Emperor is busy doing force-chokes of insulting co-workers. Boots on the ground allows him leisure time.


#Memes #StarWars #Liberty #Guns #Government

https://i.nostrimg.com/ae01252a245369f731fe99060f100a43198d4fabc9f6a049c500df579ff823d0/file.jpg


We are living through a time when the criminals in power are realizing their game is coming to an end. No matter how they lash out, ultimately it will not save them.
https://i.nostrimg.com/bbd0e76d9ced4b07fec3bcbc0289cdb71723897d556237f22fd1dcf9b6d622f1/file.jpg


#Memes #PoliticalSpectrum #Left #Right #Liberty #Bitcoin

https://i.nostrimg.com/b5c35b1570d9f3d1aaf34708ba68cea0d1bba6d3f3691857105ac3ada70baf5a/file.jpg


Same here.

The large public platforms will be increasingly controlled in order to prevent the impact of free speech and liberty ideas on public opinion.

Public perception is the *only* power that the managerial class of central planners have.

When that power is gone, their words and policies carries no more weight than the ramblings of a fool in a white-padded room.

Using Nostr is preparing for a world where free discourse will be heavily censored.


Decentralization is rarely appreciated by those who sit at or near the center of the system.

Instead, it tends to be appreciated by those at the periphery of the system, as well as those who do sit near the center but can still see things from their perspective.


#Memes #Christmas

https://i.nostrimg.com/1cbe57cd31a7dc232801dff3b38b2ce77474536a143caa55f05e5e9027a2add3/file.jpg


Even if we assumed your assumption was correct:

Let's assume an average $12 fee now (probably will drop back to lower levels)

$200 - $12 = $188

If we assume your thesis that fees will increase at the same pace as the savings:

$20,000 - $1200 = $18,800

Yeah, I'd rather have $18,800 stored safely on the base layer, vs storing that amount on L2.


Long term savings.

The value of sats will increase over time. If your $200 bitcoin is worth $20k at some point, then even if fees increase you are good.


Amazing.
Voting actually made a difference, and the actual citizens of a nation were able to push back against the WEF/UN Globalists!
(Bitcoin does not fix everything by the way!) https://image.nostr.build/6cfe9c4f4858c8e4307d137a262b7e66b6aac045a08fd875cf8843e5f5c7c6bc.jpg


“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

-Douglas Adams


Good work. Since we already have tabs on profiles, adding an extra tab for content won't hurt. No lengthy horizontal scrolling yet on the tabs.


#Amethyst v0.82.1: Marketplace, NIP-96 Image Servers, NIP-54 inline metadata

Adds support for selling and listing in Amethyst as well as NIP-96 Image Servers and NIP-54 inline metadata. Provides large improvemetns to Cashu's token redemption and fixes several bugs.

https://image.nostr.build/40ae418ccc5336e17b5949bacc11c31835603437816f8bf867c171f07d34dd54.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=720x1612&blurhash=%5BLFFgJMyj%5Bt74TMyoft70LxufiV%5B_Nt7f6WB4TogoMj%5Bxut7ofWAS%7EofbFjtD%25xtWBWBs%2BM%7BjbbH&x=c3a3f49c017f58749226f8ae6021c11a745d2354f52a229cb99eef4a9d20ec39

- Adds selling: ShopStr's classified creation
- Migrates old image server uploads to NIP-96
- Adds support for NIP-54 inline metadata
- Adds a Marketplace tab to Discovery
- New Cashu Redeeming card UI.
- Shows the blurhash with a Download icon instead of the URL when the user chooses to not automatically load images/videos
- Improves the video switching flicker from blurhash to video
- Optimizes the rendering of the drawer
- Updates EOSE status in the same thread of the new event to reduce the amount of coroutine launches.
- Uses just one HTTPClient for the entire app
- Adds a User Agent to all HTTP requests.
- Improves Cashu Redeeming UI feedback
- Adds support for the FileServers kind
- Adds relay information for Replaceable events
- Unifies upload options into NIP-94 images
- Improves the rendering of inline metadata
- Uses nostr.wine instead of filter.nostr.wine as a search relay
- Fixes bottom bar appearing in chats when the keyboard is open
- Fixes uploading crash due to malformed video formats
- Fixes crash when image is an SVG and tries to compress
- Fixes deletion of replaceable events
- Fixes hash calculation from the entire payload to only the bytes in the file
- Fixes bug when updating relay list that used keep the previous list
- Presents better error messages when the image upload fails
- Adds a button to Cashu preview to redeem on external wallet by nostr:npub1nxa4tywfz9nqp7z9zp7nr7d4nchhclsf58lcqt5y782rmf2hefjquaa6q8
- Fixes zap splits when using amber with intents by nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5
- Updates translations for cs/de/sv/pt by nostr:npub1e2yuky03caw4ke3zy68lg0fz3r4gkt94hx4fjmlelacyljgyk79svn3eef
- Updates Hungarian translations by nostr:npub1ww8kjxz2akn82qptdpl7glywnchhkx3x04hez3d3rye397turrhssenvtp
- Updates Finnish translations by @petrikaj
- Updates Dutch translations by nostr:npub1w4la29u3zv09r6crx5u8yxax0ffxgekzdm2egzjkjckef7xc83fs0ftxcd
- Updates French translations by nostr:npub106efcyntxc5qwl3w8krrhyt626m59ya2nk9f40px5s968u5xdwhsjsr8fz
- Updates dependencies

Download:
- [Play Edition](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.82.1/amethyst-googleplay-universal-v0.82.1.apk )
- [FOSS Edition - No translations](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.82.1/amethyst-fdroid-universal-v0.82.1.apk )


"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion."

---- F. A. Hayek

#Memes #Hayek #Liberty #Bitcoin

https://i.nostrimg.com/ad12666df4677c232095d4417942ea7cdfc5cab286d7ee5c51123003ee995a7d/file.jpg


The Bank Secrecy Act and KYC/AML compliance regulations have proven to be wholly ineffective at achieving their stated goals and, instead, created a two-tiered justice system.

Unsurprisingly, Senator Warren is doubling down on this failure.

https://tftc.io/elizabeth-warren-bitcoin/


Climate Alarm in one chart.
Please share.

#Climate #Climatecrisis #ClimateChange #Climateemergency #Globalwarming #Climatescam #ClimateCult #ClimateAlarm https://image.nostr.build/6ff98c5f2a18d4cb2e4c3d12364f3b20b024ab7193283918546c26dad1bce9de.jpg


Force Meditation, 2017.
Old scene I made in 3D.

#Bitcoin #StarWars #Jedi #Art #NoAI

https://i.nostrimg.com/9d6ed6df85247aba387becef3c81d8928d98aa1ac26f9874356e7d924c54d4e7/file.jpg


Followed.

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People wonder whether Bitcoin is safe and eventually how to exit from it.

#Bitcoin is the exit and the safe.


”In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
Theodore Dalrymple”
#socialism #Communism #fascism


"What's the cost of freedom?"

That's the question I asked yesterday on X.

I asked because I suddenly had a strange feeling of understanding that this was the most important question that man can ask himself, and that I might be close to finding the answer, or at least an answer that is satisfactory for me.

Rewind back 20 years. Then I was 31. I read several books by Ayn Rand, including two of her masterpieces, "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead". It was then that I understood what freedom meant to me.

It had taken 31 years of my life to find this out.

31 years.

That's a long time of living without knowing what freedom means to you, isn't it?

I realized that, at least to me, freedom meant:

"Absence of coercion."

And it would take a total of 51 years 3 months and 3 days of living until I yesterday realized that the most important question to me is:

"What's the cost of freedom?"

To be more specific, it took me 51 years of reading, reflecting, discussing, completing the writing of three books, coming very close to completing my fourt book (Arrow of Truth) and an invitation to speak at a major conference before I yesterday understood that this question was the most important one.

51 years plus before I understood which question that was most important to me.

That's a loooong time.

Furthermore, it took one additional night with little sleep, waking up at 5 AM this morning, and then enduring one hour with ideas, memories, impressions, arguments and reflections erratically flickering behind my eyelids, before I this morning realized that the answer had been in front of me for almost 15 years.

It has been there - stuck into my face for friggin 15 years as if it was written in large caps on a sheet of paper glued to the tip of my nose - since 2008, before I finally understood 90 minutes ago what my answer to this overwhelmingly important question was.

It has been too close to me, of course, so close that I haven't been able to see it.

And then - boom!

This type of eureka moment has only happened to me very few times before.

I'm not yet going to disclose it all yet, but parts of the answer to the question "What is the cost of freedom" is that:

"It depends."

I guess that not telling you more than this part of my answer will make some of you freak out a little bit, and that's ok, I can live with that.

But I promise, I will share it with all of you in due time.

First I'm going to spell it out as clearly as I can when I go about and complete Arrow.

In the meantime, I hope more of you guys ask yourself the same question.

Have a nice and philosophical day :-)


Thank you for an interesting read, Rune.

The price we pay for freedom depends on our response to slavery.

The risks of slavery should be clear enough to provoke a backlash in healthy, moral individuals.

Sovereignty is necessary for life; from galaxies, star systems, planets, regions, to nations, families, individuals and atoms. Attraction + separation in balance. When civilizations are incongruent with one another, individuals fight to have local jurisdictions that are aligned with the values and beliefs of the locals living there.

The Earth requires a particular distance from the Sun for higher life-forms to exist and survive. Our existence depends on a carefully weighted balance between attraction and separation.

Life is sovereign. Free agency requires a separation of powers, so that your reasoning is intact and truthful to your judgement, unassailed by external forces that seek to shape your values and ideas.

All instances of force have a horizon and fade via distance; all forms of control are local phenomena. This is why separation and sovereignty overlap. We want our planet close enough to the Sun to benefit our diverse species for the purpose of life and liberty, but we have no interest in joining with the Sun. Not all unions are beneficial.

Integrity and autonomy go hand in hand. A computer virus corrupts data by replacing local code with foreign, hostile executables. Tolkien made a similar analogy with Gollum; his internal values were corrupted by the ring. His previously sovereign mind was infected by the will of another, centralizing force, thus imprisoning him to that influence in a manner of dependency. His sovereignty of mind was sapped from him.

Centralization of power is anti-thetical to life at scale. The universe is a vast seeding-ground for a plethora of sovereign life-forms to come into existence. There is no centralized chain of command, just emergent, local spread of life. There are no bureaucrats dictating how life should be arranged via centralized edicts. If a creator exists, he is on the side of liberty and individual autonomy. Otherwise he would arrange the world very differently and we would have no free will of our own.

The creator didn't trap us forever in a paradise where we were completely safe, yet without full consciousness. We chose consciousness and individual sovereignty and the doors of a perfectly safe paradise were closed to us. That is the price of freedom. Every freedom comes with risks. When we choose liberty, we accept the accompanying risks because the tradeoff is worth it. We were not designed to become mindless automatons controlled by a corrupt managerial class.

I will end with referencing John Locke's position on defending freedom:

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As the gossip model for relays gains wider adoption in 2024, we can expect significant advancements in the decentralization and resilience of the Nostr protocol. This will shift the focus away from relying on a small number of dominant relays, leading to a more robust and resilient network.

Client developers who have not yet explored the potential of the gossip model are strongly encouraged to consider integrating it into their development plans for early 2024. By embracing this innovative approach, they can contribute to a future where Nostr operates as a truly decentralized and censorship-resistant network.

Beyond increasing decentralization, the implementation of the gossip model significantly contributes to the long-term sustainability of the Nostr protocol too. This is achieved by alleviating the burden on relay operators, who no longer require substantial resources to maintain large-scale infrastructure. As a result, we can expect the emergence of smaller, more cost-effective relays becoming the norm within the Nostr ecosystem.


I am extremely grateful for oil and gas.


This is the way.

#Memes #Bitcoin

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I am a simple man. I see Jamie Dimon crying, I buy more of what makes him cry.


#Memes #Democracy

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Balaji wasn't wrong about #Bitcoin going to $1M, but he was wrong on the timing and the catalyst.

My $1M call is based on a massive rapid influx of institutional capital while Bitcoin available for sale is at historical lows, compounded by the halving.

His $1M prediction was predicated on money printing and banks failing. Those two things could potentially be a driver for a rapid run to $1M but not likely. The money printing already happened and then dried up. It will take a few more years for the market to adjust accordingly. As for banks failing, normies will just look for a "safer" bank. They aren't at the stage where they realize no bank is really safe and Bitcoin is the only option.

TL;DR: #1MBitcoin is in play.


Selling from Amethyst is coming soon. :)

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Already married.😄

Pippin: is there a second breakfast?


It will be beautiful. ☀🌟⭐✨


This time really is different. #Bitcoin


Yes.

Bitcoin maxis don't trade.
We just don't announce it all the time.


Agreed.

The Martian is good although not comparable. There are a few decent movies, they just don't have the same impact.


Bitcoin will serve as our hedge against a dystopian future. It will act as a safeguard against social credit scores and provide us with negotiating power in the future.

With each passing day, I am increasingly realizing the importance of our mission. 🫡


As the #Bitcoin price reaches $42k, nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a reminds Forbes Centroamérica that at its heart Bitcoin is "a savings technology, a way to store and generate wealth through time."

Argentina's central bank shutdown, Central America, and prosperity.
https://forbescentroamerica.com/2023/12/04/el-bitcoin-cada-vez-mas-presente-en-latinoamerica-samson-mow


If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration - Nikola Tesla


The thing that really bothers me about gold is it’s betting on a regression for humanity. Gold fixes nothing in a world today that deals in commerce across space. At the end of the day golds best hope is we regress back to a trust model of “gold backed” fiat because gold is completely impractical for commerce as we know in the 21st digital century. It’s like begging to make the same mistakes we’ve already learned from and I personally find it incredibly depressing to think we go back to a standard where we have to trust an asset already paper traded 200-250:1 isn’t going to end up in catastrophe again. Bitcoin is truly our only hope.


The bulls are back in town. 🎶🎵

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5_xqb416S7o


"Take another pill"
"Make another law"
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When calling a police state by its real name becomes a hate crime against that police state.

#Memes #Liberty #Orwell #GeorgeOrwell #Orwellian #1984

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Economist have for decades insisted that the CPI is the measure we need to use to track the value of money.

This fundamentally illogical argument is about to tarnish their reputation as professionals.

If they don't soon admit that they were wrong, they risk being perceived by the average person as having been key assets for governments and special interests in the biggest gaslighting operation the human race has ever witnessed, an operation that president Joe Biden currently is the front man for:

The crime against humanity known as manipulation of the money supply.

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How wild is it that this town is not in google maps, yet it’s living on a #bitcoin standard. https://video.nostr.build/d2d6ff2c9a2d24db6d2652d7324684ae9edea7d533ab0a7027c25b2d952f87f2.mp4


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#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 819,503 🤙💜


Wise words from Stefan Molyneux

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


Economic suicide bomber. That’s exactly what these people are. https://image.nostr.build/a109f9dc603214bfc6a853293ba44a629fa33e8ee577795ac4cf5d9b5469b49f.jpg


#Memes #FarRight

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Today's snow coverage in Europe.

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Thanks to Hongumart for the inspiration.

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Good observation Hongumart.
You inspired me to write a short piece on this subject.

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A few brief thoughts on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings from a Bitcoin perspective.

Tricking someone is an undermining of their informed consent. It is an attempt to force someone to do or believe something without truthful arguments.

There is a relationship between voluntarism and 'good', whereas forced actions would historically fall under the ethos of 'black magic', in the sense of non-voluntary and forced.

The ethos of black magic is harmful because it is based on causing (forcing) others to do what the influencer want, similar to lying and deceiving.

Moneyprinting is a black magic ethos, based on deception and the use of force, against the informed consent of the public.

Now to the Tolkien reference. Bitcoin is white magic; it is designed in the ethos of truth-alignment, clarity and property rights for all - individual sovereignty. Bitcoin is Gandalf the White, not Gandalf the Gray. Gandalf the white is the purified form of the magician (programmer) engaging in protecting liberty. In modern terms, Gandalf is a Cypherpunk.

Black magic is the use of force upon society and the corruption of individual sovereignty. Defeating the ancient Balrog is the internal process by which Gandalf abandoned his gray (neutral) state, toward choosing the side of good and liberty, hence becoming Gandalf the White.

#Bitcoin #LOTR #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings


Snowy December in Poland.

The Polish language has many poetic elements and reminds me of games like Skyrim, Morrowind and Daggerfall.

In these games, Autumn was called Leaf-Fall. In Polish, the month November is named Listopad (leaf-fall). 'Pada' in Polish means 'fall'.

Example:
Pada śnieg (snow-fall)

The month of December is called Grudzień. In old Polish, Gruda means 'frozen land'. Grudzień (December) therefore means something along the lines of 'day of frozen land'.

The month of leaf-fall has ended.
Happy Grudzień, day of frozen land.


Same here in Poland, lots of snow.


We’re at the “loot the treasury” stage of empire collapse and people are looking for regulatory clarity from the people doing the looting. More effort should be spent exposing these people as criminals instead of trying to appease them.

The US federal government is an illegitimate authority stealing from the people on an astonishing scale.

The “regulatory clarity” you seek will make it so they can loot your bitcoin.


This thinking doesn't make sense.


#Memes #Democracy

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The only moral side is the resistance.

#Liberty #Memes

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It's hard for me to sleep more than 8-9 hours, so I wouldn't be able to fill the conditions.

If I told you that your bitcoin are an immense treasure, and that the value is the ethical stance of opposing tyranny, remember your worth.


In Norway they started to ask people to disclose their bitcoin addresses on the tax form. I no longer live there of course. Jurisdictions reap what they sow.


Absolutely.
Search is paramount.

Some Nostr clients, such as online Nostrgram, have difficulties displaying the last notes posted from an npub. This naturally depends on which relays have been utilized, but the user experience results in a situation where there is no properly working timeline. When a user can't see new notes from an npub they follow or visit, interaction and engagement will be impacted.

Zaps, quote-tweets, replies + likes, all function as feedback data streams, giving users some information about the extent of their reach. This is one of the reasons why 'likes' have a purpose for small accounts with limited reach. Users have an interest in measuring their reach in some way, not the least to verify that their relay setup works properly.

Having some idea of how many people that are able to see a note is extremely important when an individual compare different social media options to judge where it is makes sense to be active. If the reach on Nostr is worse than on a social media where you are shadowbanned, then people will choose the app where they are shadowbanned, if that means a better reach in relation to Nostr.


Santa's sledge is pulled by golden bulls. 😄


Thomas Sowell on taboos.

#Memes #ThomasSowell #Quotes

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"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand


The situation is always tougher than we let others know, so I tip my hat and hope you recover soon.


#Memes #Liberty

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Norway, trust, freedom and CBDC

This note is a call to action.

I write it in English to make it easy for people abroad to understand what's going on here, and because the Norwegian social democracy often is referred to as an example that other countries should try to copy.

I suggest that they shouldn't belive this narrative.

Norwegian politicians repeatedly tell us that we have a trust-based society.

It isn't true.

Their interest don't align with the people.

They most likely never did.

Our politicians have always known this.

They know that if they shall succeed in being part of the ruling class, they must bribe, coerce and deceive the people.

Coercion is expensive.

Bribes are costly too.

Therefore they rely heavily on deception.

By repeatedly referring to Norway as a trust-based society, they try to appeal to our conciousness.

They want us to feel shame if we think or talk about not trusting them.

Many Norwegians feel this shame.

They shouldn't.

Instead, they should try to learn where we come from, by studying our history.

If they do, they most likely will stop being ashamed for not trusting the politicians.

On the contrary, many will take great pride in not trusting any ruler at all.

Norwegians have relied heavily on voluntary cooperation with each other.

But trust in politicians has until recently not been one of our prospensities.

In my region, Trøndelag, we originally didn't trust rulers at all.

In the Viking Age we didn't want to have kings ruling us.

Therefore we punished them harder than anyone else, typically by killing them, if they tried to place themselves above the law.

Not trusting the kings was a fundamental requirement for our ancestors if they wanted to preserve their freedom and prosperity.

Fulfilling their obligations as manifested in the law, to punish the kings ruthlessly, was of equal importance.

They knew it by heart.

Is was as true for them as the natural laws.

They knew that ignoring the truth would punish them immediately.

Unfortunately this was exactly what happened when our social structure broke down in 1050 AD.

Over time fighting for our freedom was replaced with flight from oppression.

People feared standing up for their rights.

So our ancestors instead fled the country.

For instance, the level of emmigration that occured after we got our own constitution and a semi-independence in 1814 was nothing but gargantuan.

In 1814 we had a population of about 900.000 people.

Between 1836 and 1915 an estimated 750.000 people relocated to North-America.

It's an insanely huge number.

Norway is an enormously rich country in terms of natural resources.

Still people left in droves.

It tells us everything we need to know about how little the Norwegian people trusted and appreciated the politicians.

The level of trust was probably zero.

The ones who didn't leave managed to keep some check on the politicians for a long time.

Again, numbers are informative.

In 1900 the public sector only spent an amount of money equivalent to 6% of GDP.

The reason was probably that any attempt of increasing the burdens of the common people would increase the level of emmigration.

The ruling class risked being left with nobody to slave for them if they raised taxes.

So the people paid almost no taxes at all.

Instead, the ruling class used inflation to extract wealth from the people.

When World War I broke out in 1914, the gold standard had become a trap that enabled the elite to rob workers, landowners and farmers

By increasing the money supply 300%, and then suddenly reducing it in similar magnitude, all in a short timespan of 14 years, the ruling class robbed ordinary Norwegians for most of what they owned.

Now the wealthy elite and their cynical companions - the politicians - had carte blanche.

The table was set.

The feast could finally begin.

Party time for the rich and the State.

Serfdom for the rest.

Recent events show us that not adhering to the obligation to protect our freedom has been a one-way ticket to serfdom:

- the public sector today spends almost 2/3 of onshore GDP
- in 2020 and 2021 our government locked down our nation and forced us to take vaccines, although the risk for having a serious reaction to the coronavirus was insignificant while the risk related to taking these vaccines were much greater than other vaccines
- the government forces a broad range of costly burdens on us related to its climate change policy, although  the effectiveness of these measures are dubious, to say the least.

Today our super-cynical politicians  warn us about the dangers and immorality of owning #Bitcoin      , while they at the same time present Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) as a safe alternative.

The truth is that our politicians and the special interests that support them have painted themselves into a corner.

They try to deceive us into adopting CBDC because it makes it much cheaper for them to coerce us afterwards.

The monetary system is the most powerful social network that has ever existed.

And with CBDC our hubris-infected leaders will have the most powerful political tool that has ever been available to them.

With CBDC they can surveil, block and steer our every move.

I consider CBDC to be a bigger threat to our species than the nuclear bomb.

On the other hand, I don't find it likely that many countries will be able to adopt CBDCs.

I think the project will faceplant in most countries, because people will fight tools and nails against it, as they have done in Nigeria.

However, in those countries were people are lazy and don't feel any obligation to fight for their freedom, their rulers are definetely going to use of this terrible weapon.

And their people will immediately suffer.

Immediately.

It's a 100 % certainty.

Because the politicians who get to control this terrible weapon cannot resist the temptation to make every possible use of it to increase their power.

The CBDC will be like the ring in Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings.

It will spellbound them, and produce terrible outcomes for themselves and their people.

To sum up:
Norway is not at all a trust-based country.

We don't have any alternative other than to fight for our freedom.

If we allow the ruling elite to implement CBDCs, we will experience hell on earth.

And then our only option will be to flee to another country.

I prefer staying.

And I prefer fighting.

You see, I have a deep respect for the values and the understanding that my ancestors had, especially that they knew that ignoring the truth is incredibly costly.

It's in my genes.

This is my country.

A ruling class isn't welcome here.

It never was.

If you were inspired by this note, feel free to hit the like button and  follow me here on NOSTR.


For those of you that were wondering if Javier Milei’s proposal to shut down the central bank in Argentina was a bluff, they just confirmed it’s actually non-negotiable matter. https://image.nostr.build/2b5f7b50b61ac5b820dad3d162815fddb3426b01965ad5135bf790206a7e47d7.jpg


Zero WEF 2030.

#Memes #Liberty #WEF #Agenda2030 #2030Agenda

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Thanks! Not so practical yet but we have to start with simple ideas and then extrapolate.


In 2017 it took ~9 months for #Bitcoin to go from $1k to $20k. The block subsidy was 12.5, there was a lot more BTC sloshing around on exchanges, mining was boiling the oceans, and there was zero institutional money coming in.

$1k to $20k is 20x.

$50k to $1M is 20x.


Awesome Hampus!


Blixt Wallet is back with the final release in the 0.6.x release line, v0.6.9-420. Nice!

This version has a new feature for Android, Lightning Box.

Lightning Box is a service letting you receive via a Lightning Address non-custodially to your Blixt.

https://github.com/hsjoberg/blixt-wallet/releases/tag/v0.6.9-420

Lightning Box works in conjunction with Persistent Mode that was released in Blixt Wallet v0.6.9.

For things to work out well, make sure battery optimization is disabled.
Battery drain is expected to be low or not noticeable if things go as expected. Reach out if you have issues.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3824379/284913657-1397f859-abff-4deb-bcc0-72657f1d6ff5.webm

The Lightning Box service will forward Lightning Address (LNURL-pay) requests directly to the wallet app on the phone, so it can respond back with an invoice created by the wallet itself.

This means that while this service is not a custodian, there is still trust involved.

Lightning Box is free and open-source software and anyone can choose to run their own service provider.
https://github.com/hsjoberg/lightning-box
In Blixt Wallet settings, you can easily change the server to your own.

The Blixt Wallet project will host a Lightning Box instance for @blixtwallet.com addresses.

A draft bLIP specification for the inner workings of this protocol can be found here:
https://github.com/hsjoberg/blips/blob/lnurl-forwarding/blip-lnurlforward.md

It is built using Lightning P2P messages, so any lightning node wallet implementation can choose to implement this protocol.

That's all for now. Cheers and Happy Blixting! 🟡⚡


It has come to my attention that there are some #Bitcoiners that don’t think #Bitcoin can reach $1,000,000 in a matter of days/weeks after ETF money starts to flow in. They’re in for a pleasant surprise.


"The meadow is poisonous but pretty in the autumn.

The cows that graze there are slowly poisoned."

// Guillaume Apollinaire

These lines by Guillaume sometimes return to my mind. The words conjure up the image of a society infused by moneyprinting.

And the cows keep grazing, slowly poisoned as they are by the diseased fields. Yet, the meadows are beautiful in the autumn. There is a superficial charm to the poison.

#Poetry


Milei is the new president of Argentina !
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Sunday music.
The Pogues - Boys from the county hell

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


In the last sentence I meant small jurisdiction, not small constitution. But in general, the more minimalist the constitution, the better.


I believe it's mainly a problem of size, scope and options.

The closer we are to a world government, the worse the central planning and its violations against free agency and variability.

The more decentralized our world is, the less it matters how a small jurisdiction is governed. If jurisdictions were small enough with options to vote with your feet, the exact system of governance would matter less.

It seems that Bitcoin will play a significant role in guiding the world toward a scenario where world governance is thwarted, toward decentralization instead.

In a free world we would vote with our feet for jurisdictions that have acceptable policies, be they republics, democracies, monarchies or despotic. A small republic, monarchic or despotic liberty-protecting constitution might be the best place for long-term settlement.


China is aggressive toward Taiwan, and have occupied Tibet and Xinjiang for over 70 years.

Yes, the U.S. is aggressive, too. Plenty of unnecessary wars and entanglements, and military bases all over the world.


"Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities."

-- Robert Nozick

#Philosophy #Quotes #Taxation #PropertyRights


This is where it's headed and why I started an account on Nostr.

Still, it feels like Nostr is a few years away from being competitive with platforms like Twitter in terms of reach and engagement levels. Hopefully this will improve as more users are coming to Nostr and spending time here.


#Australia about to flood #Nostr in

https://video.nostr.build/62c0c033490ee47d55ff105dc2b9bb802de422c539c5d95eb0bb6bf01c75b71a.mp4


Absolutely, that is the traditional definition of magic that we generally mean by the term.

Then there is a newer definition of magic: to cause change in accordance with one's will.

These are naturally two completely different definitions and I agree with you that without clarification we should assume the traditional definition that involves superstition.

Though, the two different definitions aside, the ethical distinctions of black magic vs white magic are still relevant if we make parallels to today's society.

Black magic, could in its ethos be defined as any enforced protocol (think restraint of free agency) that disregards informed, voluntary consent and thereby removes individual sovereignty.

In this light, we can view CBDC's, fiat money and social credit scores from the lens of the black magic ethos: they are based on force, pressure and compulsion, designed to carry out a political agenda while disregarding voluntary, informed consent and sovereign decisionmaking.


Bitcoin is white magic.

Central banks, fiat money, digital ID and CBDC's are black magic.

Don't be trapped in a dark spell.


Agreed.
Technology is not magic in the supernatural sense.

Though, there are some interesting parallels between programming and historical conceptions of magic.

A spell is a written code that must written or spoken exactly to the letter, or it won't work. In magic, you are supposedly compelling unseen entities to carry out your commands. Some magical spells have instructions of going around in a circle a number of times, similar to what a loop does in programming. We even use some terminology from magic in programming, such as Invoke in C#.


Yes, all depending on the definition of magic.


Tattoos.

Just kidding.
List of words would be awesome.


“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

— George Orwell, 1984 https://image.nostr.build/b34a2821c5e24460efc7b3803d4a4d08cc679d02a6c7f462d3c386ce3385adc9.jpg


Study: Synthetic spike protein fragments found in body in 50% of vaccinated individuals, up to 187 days, and it was found in any part of the body.

1. It is possible that the mRNA may be integrated or re-transcribed in some cells.

2. It is possible that pseudo-uridines at a particular sequence position, as described in the article, induce the formation of a spike protein that is always constitutively active. But it seems very remote as a hypothesis.

3. It is possible that the mRNA-containing nanoparticle will be picked up by bacteria normally present at the basal level in the blood.

All controls (unvaccinated individuals) were tested negative.

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

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/prca.202300048


I am fairly certain that it is pronounced "s", not "sh".

It's just a double 's', such as in 'heiss' or 'Essen'.


😆😂

https://image.nostr.build/892fa89ec03f57369a13c40f7975977bf7332f47d5a436db6892e6d32291f78e.jpg


"Every person on social media should be verified by their name "because of" national security."

Mask off. The uniparty wants to control speech on the Internet. The first step is forcing people to verify themselves on social media.

They're losing control and clamping down.

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


Poor take Odell.

*Everyone* should reject mandatory identity verification *including* those that agreed to it voluntarily.


I know all about it mate, the difference is that I see a future where we overthrow the tyrants while you seem complacent and defeatist.


That's fine, you are entitled to your beliefs. If QI works it will also bring us cheap and clean energy. Imagine the meltdown of the climate alarmists if we all have abundant, clean energy and they can't control us via energy rationing.


** Controversial. Sorry for the fatfingering here, was too fast.


Link to Mike McCulloch's tweet:

https://twitter.com/memcculloch/status/1724440200711942411


"A controversial new electric propulsion system, which physicists say defies Newton’s Laws of Motion, was launched into space this weekend aboard a Space X rocket."

British physicist Mike McCulloch will have his theory Quantised Inertia tested practically in space the coming weeks.

Quantised Inertia, while controvetsial, can explain the orbital mechanics of galaxies and binary stars without the use of dark matter.

If QI works, the future of mankind will open up toward space travel without propellant and cheap energy.

https://t.co/TYIHxsaBxD


The money broke because we outsourced it to bankers.

Freedom broke because we outsourced safety to bureaucrats.

#Bitcoin is fixing this.


Absolutely.

If we want to discuss the many complex dynamics of art then at least we need some thesis to start with and then evolve it from there. We need a conversation starter on art, even if we disagree with the thesis.


Agreed, though I think he didn't want to trap beauty too much in a specific formulation on that particular point.

It seems the beauty point is more about an open question: is the artwork attempting to celebrate beauty?

Principles of beauty exist, yet beauty is not the only component of value in an artwork. If we add the attempt, the striving toward beauty as one of a number of points, then that point doesn't overshadow the other possible values that an artwork can have.

Perhaps we don't need to pin down beauty with too many restrictions of definition.


I also have my reservations on that point, perhaps he can expand further. It seems a bit too subjective.


Good art vs bad art

Map by Jash Dholani, attempting to establish some differences between good and bad art. I love his initiative and think this is a good starting point for further exploration.

What would you add or change?

#Art #Philosophy

https://image.nostr.build/301175a43eb6ef094c1f92bda8a1230b896208813f1e6e8674cb0f384181bf57.jpg


Useful meditation on democracy.

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"The despotism of faction is not less to be dreaded than the despotism of an individual."

- Alexis Tocqueville
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#Memes #Tocqueville #Quote #Philosophy #Democracy #Despotism

https://image.nostr.build/f8f86cc035f2f38379757dbf490b103e91a8a13fcd402003b6abdca6703668fd.jpg


#ClimateScam
https://rumble.com/v3vfgoa-green-energy-dream-is-dead.html


I found this statement from Mike today and figured it belongs on Nostr.

Link:

https://twitter.com/memcculloch/status/1723978571167748478


"Every dystopia needs an insane component to test if an individual will robotically comply or must be punished. Wokeism is the same. If it seems mad, that's the point."

Mike McCulloch, physicist (Quantised Inertia)


Blixt wallet is also awesome.


Nice. If I had designed the course I would have made the challenges a bit more realistic in relation to work procedures. I never had occasion to stack tires in that manner.😄


Härligt, bra jobbat!


Nice. Blixt Wallet is back with v0.6.9!

We have a lot of new stuff in this release, such as a new stable Tor implementation, Persistent Mode, Simple Taproot Channels support, 0-conf channels support for Dunder LSP, and a bunch of new languages.

https://github.com/hsjoberg/blixt-wallet/releases/tag/v0.6.9

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This release has a new Tor backend ("newtor") on Android that should be much more robust and reliable.
You don't need to do anything in order to experience it, just make sure you have Tor enabled in Blixt settings.

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Blixt Wallet now has support for Simple Taproot Channels!
Your private channels will just look like normal Taproot transactions if you do a coop close, which is great for privacy.

Dunder LSP & autopilot will also support this feature in the near future.

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Blixt Wallet on Android has a new Persistent Mode, which lets Blixt stay in the persistently in the background.

This can be helpful if you're awaiting a payment, or if you just want to keep in-sync with the chain.

Depending on the device, this mode may drain more battery life.

In a future release, we will allow self-custodial Lightning Address support for users opting in to the Persistent Mode.

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There were a lot of more stuff than the ones discussed here, so be sure to read the changelog.

If you wish to download the app, head over to https://blixtwallet.com.

Thanks to all contributors in this release and Happy Blixting everyone! 🟡


I spent the entire bear market writing bullish #Bitcoin tweets and saving them in my drafts. I’m ready. Let’s go.


Manipulation of money: expansion of the money supply.

https://image.nostr.build/7da61797a7e1f1e8608854cca5a2913ce46e6906d5bb11d822e6e4811cc6451f.jpg


Show me a person who believes the problem can be solved with more manipulation of money, and I’ll you a person who doesn’t understand the root of the problem or money.

#Bitcoin
#Nostr


Absolutely.

I favor local sovereign jurisdictions, in the range between the size of cities, municipalities and counties, perhaps even as large as U.S. states. Abolish federal/government taxes and control. Let individuals vote with their feet between jurisductions that are responsible for their own economy. Competition, freedom and options.


I think there are some advantages with Christian culture, even though I am atheist. There is more cohesion, higher degrees of social capital, focus on quality art, music and architecture, and so on.

My approach is that it is best to not interfere too much with the complex code of traditions, since I have limited understanding of the results.

Basic caution to not ruin that which works.


A few thoughts on why traditions matter, from an atheist and programming perspective.

There is a saying that traditions are solutions to problems that we have forgotten. Once traditions are removed, the problems they fixed come back.

Removing traditions can be likened to a programmer removing random lines and functions of code because he/she doesn't see what their purpose is.

The result is that the code starts malfunctioning, since the pieces of code that were removed had utility value that was forgotten.

Every programmer that returns to their own code 10 years later may delete or change vital parts of the code by mistake.

This is why programmers are reluctant to even fix a spelling error in a code that works, because downstream functions might reference that spelling as it is.

When we evaluate the value of culture and traditions that provide high degrees of social capital and societal cohesion, we must remember that they probably have a purpose, even if we don't understand it. Just as when we read code we wrote 10 years ago that we also don't fully understand.


Well said Iefan.

If one dollar bill is 0.11 millimeter thick, then ~3.5 trillion stacked dollar bills represent the average distance from the Earth to the Moon. (~385,000 km).

By this measure, 6 trillion represents 1.7 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.


Fiat Ponzi scheme (US edition)

$6 trillion — That’s the amount of US bonds that will mature over the next year. But guess what?

America cannot pay that amount! So, it will issue new bonds to pay back those old bonds!

It’s like you borrow from
MasterCard to pay Visa! But here’s the catch:

The old bonds had yields of about 1%, while the new ones will be 5% or more!

USA is caught in a spiralling debt vortex. And as dedollarization gains momentum, the demand for dollar and US debt will plunge… which means higher yields for US bonds.

Resulting Hyperinflation.

Buy Bitcoin 🤜🤛


Heh.

With Bitcoin, you can secure both your wealth and your dignity. No golden watch damages on our watch.


With Bitcoin, people can cross the border without a painfully hidden golden watch.**

** Pulp Fiction reference.


Maybe Ronald Reagan would have understood #Bitcoin and #Nostr

“Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.  And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.

Knowing this, it's hard to explain those among us who even today would question the people's capacity for self- government. I've often wondered if they will answer, those who subscribe to that philosophy: if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? Using the temporary authority granted by the people, in increasing number lately at all levels of government, have sought control even of the means of production as if they could do this without eventually controlling those who produce. And always they explain this as necessary to the people's welfare. "The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principle upon which it was founded."  This was written in 1748, and it's as true today as it was then.”


Orc singing Warriors of The World.
(AI cover of Manowar)

😄

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3PJtzF368&pp=ygUQYWkgY292ZXIgbWFub3dhcg%3D%3D


Very concerning. We know that government welfare and UBI programs will be used to force government policy upon non-consenting individuals who are in a vulnerable economic situation. The standard government strategy is to deny this until they implement it.

I remember this from February:

https://twitter.com/ben_kew/status/1624539526042636288


BRAZIL - "The Health Ministry has now announced that the COVID19 vaccine will be added to the mandatory annual Immunisation Program for children & babies.

Parents of unvaccinated children will be denied welfare benefits."

I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory but it's not, they literally just announced it 🫥
https://video.nostr.build/c97ab79a813218cd28d923928be5080ca50f6e4aa57ac7898860b0f86aa1231a.mp4


Claimed ‘99% Consensus’ on Climate Change Demolished by New Report.

The invented political notion that 99% of climate scientists believe humans have caused all or most recent global warming has been dealt another significant blow. A group of Israeli scientists has examined the widely-publicised claim by the climate activist Mark Lynas that there is a 99% ‘consensus’ that humans cause most warming. Led by Yonatan Dubi, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Ben Gurion University, the scientists found that massive flaws and biases riddled the Lynas work, implying the conclusions of the study do not follow from the data.
This work matters. The claims of a 99% consensus, along with an earlier 97% figure, are widely used in political and media circles to shut down debate over anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Sceptical scientists – even those as distinguished as last year’s Nobel Physics Prize winner Dr. John Clauser – can be dismissed as cranks and deniers. Of course consensus is not proof, which is notably lacking in the model-driven climate science field. However the Israeli authors observe a consensus claim is “influential in bolstering the reception of a particular thesis within the  broader public sphere”. This leads to “less quantifiable statements”, such as humanity is facing an imminent climate crisis, and is followed by global calls for action. Not to put too fine a point on it, the collectivist Net Zero project relies on a fake scientific consensus that crumbles when exposed to the most basic scrutiny.
The Lynas et al. paper, which examined the ‘abstracts’ of 3,000 papers, is riddled with errors. It assumes that all papers taking ‘no position’ on AGW are in support of the hypothesis. The Israeli authors note that sceptical scientists tend not to emphasise scepticism in the opening abstract as work not supporting the political narrative on climate is now almost impossible to get published in the major science journals. Careful analysis of how sceptical papers diplomatically “fit the consensus” suggests the actual number of scientists agreeing with AGW may be on the “low side”, conclude the examining authors.
The dictionary definition of consensus is a “general agreement” or “the judgement arrived at by most of those concerned”. The authors are clear in their judgement: “No claim for consensus can be made from the data presented in Lynas et al.”
This is not the first time such outlandish ‘consensus’ claims have been critically examined. In 2013, John Cook asserted that 97% of 11,944 peer-reviewed science papers explicitly endorsed the opinion that humans had caused the majority of the warming over the last 150 years. But, 7,930 of those papers took no position on anthropogenic change and were excluded from the 97% claim. It was subsequently revealed that only about 0.5% of the papers explicitly stated that recent warming was mostly human caused.
At the time, a former IPCC author Professor Richard Tol said that Cook’s nonsense paper showed the climate community still had a long way to go in weeding out bad research and bad behaviour. For their part, the Israeli scientists note that their criticisms also apply in general to earlier consensus studies based on abstract scanning, and it is to be regretted that they were “not taken into consideration” by Lynas et al. “It is thus crucially important to understand the limitations of, and the good practices required of, these types of consensus studies”. The matter is said to be too important to be left “blurry and subjective”.

Read the full article in below link:

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/11/09/claimed-99-consensus-on-climate-change-demolished-by-new-report/


Many buyers are waiting for #Bitcoin to reach $100k before they take action. That’s okay.


“Folks on Twitter said it was going lower!” 💀 nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u https://video.nostr.build/0b5906786000285a11cd1d9ed60078fa2d39c467b1faafa70633d6e2300c4fc9.mp4


What could possibly go wrong.


#Memes #Bitcoin

https://image.nostr.build/5bcec37f489ab5809b7b501197ae98bc30996f0edba8915b6492e86b7533842e.jpg


Yeah, pretty cool fan-made combination.


🤟

Judas Priest - Leather Rebel
(Painkiller, 1990)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jwqQcxFBgdk


I was always saying: Bitcoin is not for the weak, only for brave.
Never surrender - ready for fight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMU804-bjQA


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“If successful, DPI will give governments and corporations the power to implement systems of social credit that can determine where and how you can travel, what you are allowed to consume, and how you will be able to transact with your programmable money."
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DPI here stands for Digital Public Infrastructure. DPI combines digital ID, CBDC's and social credit scores.

Every jurisdiction advocating for or implementing DPI is an illgetimate, totalitarian regime.

https://expose-news.com/2023/11/07/bill-gates-digital-ids-will-be-mandatory-to-participate-in-society/


A gave a talk at the New Orleans Investment Conference the other day. At 50 years and counting, it is the longest continually-running investment conference in the country, and possibly the world.

It is diminished from its heyday due to broader competition and online investment media, but it has a certain air to it. Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman, Gerald Ford, and Steve Forbes have spoken at it, among many others. It is mostly a boomer/gold/resource/conservative/libertarian conference, and gets the best from that crowd, but otherwise is not huge. The guy who has run it for decades took it over long ago from the original founder, and he wants to freshen it up and modernize it a bit and throw some hand grenades into his own conference, so he invited me to talk. He is a gold guy, a resource guy, an old-school conservative, and he likes bitcoin and wishes he bought it earlier. He's open-minded, objective, and growth-oriented.

My talk was "Broken Money, Broken World".

-The first theme was that there are 160+ siloed fiat currencies. I used Egypt as my main example, and held up a physical Egyptian pound and said this is basically a national casino chip; it has very low salability outside of Egypt, similar to how a casino chip has very low salability outside of the casino. The 105 million people who live there are trapped in a fiat matrix of 20% annual money supply growth, like a treadmill that they have to keep up with in terms of their wages, price increases, rent increases, and so forth to avoid being diluted, and most can't keep up with that treadmill. And there are dozens of countries like this. I held up a Norwegian krone and said even though this is from a wealthy country, it is still a casino chip because what can I possibly do with it in New Orleans? It's too small and unsalable. This is outdated tech.

-The second theme brought it back to the US. I spoke about how the past four decades had two main trends: rising public debt/GDP and falling interest rates (see included pics below). Developing market currencies suffer while those of us in the US feel that things are stable. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, people rightly freaked out about the debt and deficit. The famous NYC debt clock went up in 1989. Ross Perot ran the most successful independent presidential campaign in the early 1990s on the debt and deficit. That was when interest expense as a % of GDP was at its peak. But what they didn't or couldn't predict, was that the next 30 years would be disinflationary. China opened up to the world. The Soviet Union fell. Western capital was united with Eastern labor and resources. China became a manufacturing hub, which was disinflationary. Russia supplied cheap energy to the German industrial base, which was disinflationary. Interest rates fell structurally, allowing more debt accumulation, and for prices to increase far more slowly than money supply growth. But then we hit zero interest rates, and then we monetized fiscal spending. We're in a new world now; debts and deficits matter again. Those guys from the late 1980s and early 1990s were right but early, and now we are facing some of those consequences. Fiat currencies including the dollar have structural instability.

-The third theme was to bring up again that there are 160+ casino fiat currencies in the world... and that every one of their gates are fucking down. Pre-Bitcoin, the only way to get money in or out of a country was 1) physical ports of entry (typically limited to $10k USD or so worth of cash and gold) or 2) bank wire transfers (highly controlled by local governments). Countries could maintain their little currency bubbles. But Bitcoin and then stablecoins blew that open. You can bring a billion dollars worth of bitcoin through an airport by remembering 12 words, or writing them down and tucking them away in your baggage, or briefly putting them in an encrypted file in the cloud. Infinite value density. Same for stablecoins- tokenized dollars or whatever the market wants in terms of global fiat currency and assets. I can pay a graphic designer in Nigeria with a QR code over a video call or email or DM in bitcoin or stablecoins or whatever she wants. All of this bypasses their currency bubble and goes around their banking system, unless their country wants to be North Korea and cut itself off or get shut off externally from the internet. And I said the investment implications and macro implications of this are massive; it's a new world that, over the long arc of time, breaks all the fiat bubbles.

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


Yes. It feels more correct to merge the vowels. Besides, English is not my first language so I apply whatever principle makes most sense.😄


"Coercion is evil precisely because it thus eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another."

- Friedrich Hayek

#Memes #Hayek #Liberty #Voluntarism

https://image.nostr.build/87dec884a4c9ea47062b33f37c507ee477b7ee0585e4edb894ec6c67578320bd.jpg


Since I'm not a mindreader I prefer to keep some amount of uncertainty in regards to the inner workings of other people.

I have deep concerns about the motivations of Elon due to his support for Doge coin (an obvious scam) and his wish to make Twitter into an everything app, with clear references to the Chinese WeChat surveillance and CBDC app. That's a very dark path to embark upon.

On the flip side, I remember when it was popular to hate on Jack Dorsey for allowing Twitter censorship. While Jack had a deep responsibility in that situation it became obvious over time that he didn't see any winning move within the regulatory framework that Twitter operated, except for opting out and going full Bitcoin.

Elon's deeper motivations in acquiring Twitter is likely aligned with its potential as a database feeding AI with weighted conversational data. The new Tesla AI Grok is accessing Twitter in real time.

The obvious fallout of Elon's focus to make Twitter an everything app + a source of data for AI, is that it becomes a honeypot for government regulations. He cannot be unaware that governments will not allow Twitter to become some sort of alternate universe where their regulations cannot reach.

Only decentralized tech like Bitcoin and Nostr can be successful in challenging the regulatory leviathans. It is not plausible that Elon will win against government regulations, even if we assumed that he had good intentions.

The most favorable interpretation of Elon's endeavor would be that he believes that Twitter and Grok AI can play a useful role in allowing some modicum of free speech on a large platform. Yet, even such an interpretation would require asking the question: what happens when Twitter and Grok are fully regulatory captured? It seems likely that this would merely be a matter of time.

At the end of the day, even under the most favorable interpretation, Elon is playing with dark forces of regulation.

Following the advice of Tolkien; no man can be trusted in wielding the ring of power.

The only liberty option is to decentralize power via Bitcoin and decentralized media like Nostr.


Discovering #Bitcoin is finding truth in a world built on lies and deception.


The climate alarmists are crazy.

First they talk about saving cows and livestock. Then they talk about mass-butchering of livestock in order to reduce CO2 that plants absorb to flourish.

They don't care about animals at all.


I see it from Amethyst.


Deflation is the natural state of the free market.
And only #Bitcoin can measure it.


My wife downloaded an insect identification app recently and it has been very useful when we go shopping. Scan the product and see instantly if there is Kochineal [E120], Mealworm or other unapproved critters.


Heh.😄


*data.

My apologies for the fat-fingering.


This is why governments want to control AI. It's summaries of scientific dats are not likely to align with central planning narratives.

#AI #Meta #Science

https://image.nostr.build/9ff251a75ff5c73051f8151af5c2bc667845ef7c2275e30c59e789068cc6bb7d.jpg


A missing semi-colon after an 'if-then' condition at 2 am can cause a lot of confusion when you check the logic, and it works, but the code still ignores the conditions you set up because your tired brain didn't see the missing semi-colon.


Climate hysteria is nothing new. https://image.nostr.build/910dbf031c1f2d28df5e726fb4f0255210a8f21f8eb0affbfd9e023760938e21.jpg


I will add that the resume is also useful for the interviewer when he/she plans questions ahead of the hiring interview.


Agreed, resumes are important. Though, I would say that the main point of a resume is to pass the initial filtering process and get a face-to-face talk with the potential employer. That back and forth talk/probing is the real hiring procedure.


Here's my theory:

Nostr will mostly be left alone for some years.

While the EU bureaucrats are largely incompetent, they are still rational enough to focus on practical results.

Their goal is to limit the spread of non-approved opinions, since public perception is still vital to their power.

Since most Eurpeans are not on Nostr, there is low risk for the EU bureaucrats that Nostr will have a great impact on European public opinions in the near future.

If the majority of sheep are not listening to lions speaking the truth, the EU regulators will focus on more pressing matters.

Once that changes, they will certainly try to ban Nostr in the EU.


#Memes

https://image.nostr.build/d02d392944400cb9700a742592c96865e6ba27a36ae7328697f7219945f32639.jpg


Be uplifting.

#Memes #StarWars #DarthVader

https://image.nostr.build/305b34d0850ff327e371a5bad5521e35f7be5f7c707bb535e8649f6835ef5ba4.jpg


I used to listen the Japanese metal band Sigh. Nice theatrical death/black metal with some classical piano parts.

A Victory Of Daikini, live in 2022
(Scorn Defeat, 1994)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikt-91Yb7M&pp=ygULc2lnaCBkYWtpbmk%3D


Bending the sploon = convincing a loon.
Yup, futile.

Truth is the way.


"Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently."

-- as mentioned in Futurehype: The Myths of Technology Change.

Humanity needs more than just knowledge; it requires a heart filled with love, a mind at peace, and a spirit of compassion. 🤍🕊


I believe that the health of a society is partially measured by at what extent the citizens are willing to resist, opt out, protest and rebel.

On an intuitive level, it seems self evident that an authoritarian regime will not be equally strong at every inch of its dominion. Every architecture has its weak points and supportive pillars.

The brilliance of Bitcoin is that it peacefully outcompetes and obsoletes the moneyprinting pillars of society that upholds central planning.

Education and sorting out values and priorities is foundational. Most people are only willing to take risks in favor of truth once that they have crossed their inner Rubicon. Bitcoin can help people reach that point of determination.

It's not possible.
- No, it's necessary.

Liberty trumps defeatism.


Yes, and besides, 90% of scientists will confirm the thesis of their financiers. We know how that went under communism and national socialism.

Voluntarism is the guiding principle.
Voluntarism is love for your neighbor.

Whatever principle that harms your neighbor, will eventually harm you.


The money is broken.
You don't have to be.

#Bitcoin #Memes

https://image.nostr.build/7ec7727ffb825fbabfe2091bc16e632499e7e7c0d1f07a894daab41900e6b8ea.jpg


Truth matters.

#Memes

https://image.nostr.build/b65ad765fc05910d3b041558b258e37daf99280c2019e9537577eec407f1a60c.jpg


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CBDCs are an effort to:

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

2) Reduce the power of private banks

3) Expand state control over the economy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


When nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m  asked nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 about ways the public can help bring him home, Snowden wasn't optimistic about his chances but used the opportunity to speak about the importance of #freeassange.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1070445764045705307/1169547422440095744/trim_632CCEAA-FBC8-41B5-AFB7-EC8F127D01C8.mov?ex=6555ccea&is=654357ea&hm=d6a5ce1d9ca3600c33b30326fb97bc3e523eb588751367dfe45b6d6b30b7ec64&


If it doesn't work,
it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.

// Mich Ravera

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There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

// Bjarne Stroustrup

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Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

// Linus Torvalds

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“Government is something that’s done to us” nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9


Good talk criticizing climate alarmism.

"Climate Change Reconsidered II", arranged by the Heartland Institite and the Ayn Rand institute in 2014.

#ClimateChange #ClimateAlarmism #Climate #HeartlandInstitite #NIPCC #IPCC

https://youtu.be/JZj0L9TEuv0


Thanks. I never advanced very far in Myst so I wouldn't know, but it's a cool game.


Thanks. Yes I did play Myst but only in the starting area, it was on a past girlfriend's computer at the time. For the concept I was using general StarWars Mos Eisley ideas for the architecture, just in metal and glass instead of clay/sand.


Here is a better view.

https://image.nostr.build/48f28440f3c0fc60e647b086e7847987c3b4102e01ef6f20b0106fc06c833e42.jpg


Below is an interior view of the homestead to give an idea of what the view is from the wooden deck level.

This mid-section apartment might need larger space than this, although since the main apartment would be below deck, the upper deck outlook doesn't need to be massive.

https://image.nostr.build/19f8317aee8b0ed689ae64b8ca5b882084530527810031adfddb98e237a5d5e0.jpg


Concept for mobile homestead anchored by the shore.

I modeled the homestead in 3D in 2021 and it has some practical design flaws since I'm not an architect and my main focus was exploring the aesthetics.

A few things lacking: I didn't spend time on working out a proper homestead-to-homestead connection system. The general idea was to connect homesteads via extendable bridges. Under the platforms it would make sense to have large airtight rounded structures (floats/pontoons) that stabilize the homestead. I have no idea what the maritime technical requirements for seasteading in the open sea would be, so take this as an amateur vision that needs overhaul.

The homestead has three floors, with the main apartment below deck. The idea is having either an enclosed internal ladder system between the floors, an enclosed elevator or both. If one level is compromised by attackers, the owner must be able to pass between the three levels securely within the enclosed ladder/elevator system.

The elevator shaft would most practically be located on the outside of the structure, albeit the drawback is that it impacts the silhouette of the homestead. Below deck it would have an exit door and a dock for maritime vessels. The homestead could also have a diving chamber below the whole structure as an additional escape route. Think James Bond. 😄

https://image.nostr.build/650d766b3bc64845dc6f2fcbc21cc6bae158e3c504a22fcb68e1e6b126763772.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/29cd040a21b80d337bec5f61db83f322f9fc60efa7a10d13517d1b6f3d0e24ec.jpg

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Thank you. I just joined but will have to figure out how to join the seasteading community.

I created a new npub there:

nostr:npub15ukpd5egx0hre8efmp8rzu9e0cwqagcvtzydkan63afclfr9g79sf947vq


Well said.

We are going to win is the exorcism of defeatism. It is a necessary step toward clarity of direction. Without this step, direction is pointless.


"We're going to win" isn't some cocky saying that assumes inevitability.  It is the embodiment of the belief in one's self and the power one has  to change the world.

https://tftc.io/believe-in-yourself/


Remove your money from the legacy system while you still can. The doors are closing. #Bitcoin


When Faketoshi proves himself to be a fraud on the anniversary of Satoshi's whitepaper. 😄🤡

https://image.nostr.build/e40fdafb220e37aa98707b765c6a6e5865106f022f5d4c6b1808dcf119a43130.jpg


Back in 2009 I was working as a forklift operator in Norway providing my region with food. Unless it was a weekend, in which case I might have been doing the same, depending on the weekend.

I was thinking about saving in gold at that time to save myself from inflation but I didn't have the expertise to tell pure gold from 'surprise inside' and felt that it would be hard to use, requiring a certificate and all that. It took me until early 2018 until I started researching Bitcoin. Bought my first sats within days.


Links to my two earlier explorations of John Locke:

@nostr:nevent1qqsxzu0n84dentet44zjv0e6salld898w4f0k385ha7vtgx7pce2cvgppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqg75jw2xzfv9wpk89yy2tcusf723wl4qs7cr9hdle55xyvzv0kvrqvzqqqqqqyyk3dj2

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