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> Is the idea of “decentralization” possible in a world where states can arrest CEOs and founders? Nothing can prevent somebody from exchanging funds with one another using Bitcoin or expressing something on Nostr, so long as enough independent people are running a network of Bitcoin nodes or Nostr relays. View quoted note →

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“digital neighborhoods” as coined by @rabble pushes my analogy beyond just foss: View quoted note →

> a gold standard won out over silver mostly by **accident**. rereading @Lyn Alden book, i’m starting to think future descriptions of bitcoin and fiat could follow a similar path… “a bitcoin standard won out over the dollar mostly by accident.” history shifts overnight, with small things growing big, and the once significant becoming irrelevant. there are only two parameters we must watch: time and motion, as probability is simply the outcome of accumulated time and repeated exposure. 🧡

listening to yesterday’s @jack @ODELL conversation: > you can’t build a company that means to serve as a town square without having sth underneath it that no single entity owns. > that’s what nostr represents to me. you can remove some of that liability and you can get back to the idea of what twitter was meant to be, and what it ultimately is. — is the future of twitter to become the nostr client?