Looks like plebs DGAF.

I’ve never been a deeply religious guy. I was raised in the Christian Orthodox tradition and always had faith, but it was never a big part of my life. Until last year. I don’t know what exactly changed - was it the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk that shook me more than I would have expected, or the sheer brutality and evil I saw the state of Israel commit, or how Trump came and broke every single promise that got him elected, but I felt something inside break. What started mending the wound was Christ himself. I don’t know what led me back to Him; in hindsight the path seemed almost inevitable. Christianity is a deeper rabbit hole than Bitcoin if you’re willing to make the jump, and it has the potential to bring sense to a world that appears to have lost its senses. What completely pushed me over the edge was the overwhelming evidence for the physical resurrection of Christ. Until recently, I only believed in it in a spiritual sense and not as something that really happened historically in the divine way described in the Bible. I don’t think I’m the same person since.

My recent trip to Germany taught me the following: 1. Germans are quiet, private, and generally very well-behaved people. 2. German culture values order, civility, and hard work. 3. Germans are incredibly tolerant of outsiders, even when those outsiders come from cultures that are fundamentally different from their own. To me, #3 often seems at odds with #1 and #2, and undermines the very qualities that made Germany what it is. Since I come from the Balkans, here’s how we compare: 1. Balkan people are loud, direct, and sometimes borderline rude, but usually very honest. 2. Balkan culture values freedom to an extreme. We take pride in our disobedience, our distrust of authority, and our willingness to ignore or bend rules and laws as we see fit. That’s why we don’t have nice things like Germans do. 3. Balkan people are often labelled racist or intolerant, but in reality we mostly live peacefully alongside different ethnic and religious groups in our countries. What we are deeply hostile to, however, is anyone who disrespects our culture, traditions, or common values. Hell, we spend plenty of time fighting among ourselves over exactly those things. Germany is a beautiful country, and Germans are a great people with much to be proud of. Yet decades of collective guilt and moral self-doubt seem to have weakened their willingness to defend what is rightfully theirs. Every sign of decline I observed appeared to have external roots. I am sure many Germans see the problem, but they stay silent, look away, pretend not to notice, and carry on with their lives. A nation that survived the most devastating wars in history now seems to be experiencing death by a thousand cuts. That’s so sad to see.

The contrast between Satoshi and today’s grant bitches becomes starker by the day. It makes me wonder whether any of the current Bitcoin or Nostr developers genuinely love these protocols, or if they’re simply here for the funding.