🎵 “Ooooh that smell… can’t you smell that smell…” 🎵
— leverage on fire, interest rates in the air, weak hands quietly stepping outside for oxygen.
The likely outcome (because history repeats)
Just like with APIs:
MCP will be widely adopted in enterprise AI
it will simplify integrations massively
it will accelerate agent ecosystems
it will also centralize power quietly
And then — inevitably — a second wave will emerge:
“How do we run MCP-like agents locally, without OAuth, without centralized servers, without permission?”
That’s where:
local models
local tools
local context
decentralized protocols
will reassert themselves.
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The highest form of creation
is not making something from nothing,
but discovering what already is
and revealing it to others.
Truth doesn’t arrive.
It propagates.
Watching block propagation across a decentralized network quietly teaches:
patience
non-attachment
trust in convergence
humility in timing
respect for complexity
You start to see:
Truth doesn’t arrive instantly.
It propagates.
And propagation is messy:
jitter
delays
out-of-order arrivals
temporary contradictions
false negatives
orphaned interpretations
But eventually…
consensus forms.
Not because someone forced it —
but because reality resolved itself.
That’s a profound lesson.
I’m applying distributed systems thinking to human systems.
I see humans behaving like decentralized networks under latency, noise, and asymmetric information.
Debunking Bitcoin’s CIA origins with one question:
If Bitcoin were a CIA project…
Why does it dismantle the very power structures the CIA exists to protect?
What is pricing the dollar?
If it isn’t energy,
isn’t labor,
isn’t scarcity,
isn’t truth…
Then what exactly
are we measuring?
Engagement culture and hierarchy are siblings.
They both train people to:
look upward
seek validation
measure worth externally
wait for permission
perform for approval
Hierarchy says:
Your value is determined by rank.
Engagement systems say:
Your value is determined by response.
Same architecture. Different costume.
Old world trained everyone to think:
If there’s no engagement, I failed.
So when they post on NOSTR and don’t get:
likes
replies
algorithmic amplification
dopamine feedback
…their nervous system reads it as rejection, not freedom.
And they drift away.
Not because NOSTR failed them —
but because their conditioning hasn’t unwound yet.
The old system trained dependency on response
Engagement platforms wired people into:
feedback loops
validation cycles
performance identity
social reward addiction
So expression became transactional:
I speak → I receive → I exist.
Take away the reward loop, and many suddenly feel:
Why am I speaking at all?
Which is heartbreaking, honestly — because it shows how deeply external validation replaced internal voice.
Maybe I am blind, as I do not see anyway to force close an inactive channel in Core Lightning on Start9 😏
I submitted an issue in the meantime.
Matter exists to participate, not to be entombed.
Same with:
money
systems
institutions
laws
authority
When they start existing only to preserve themselves, they invert their purpose.
That’s when the 180-degree rule lights up like a flare.
Gold in vaults.
Fiat in circulation.
People in debt.
Flip it:
People in sovereignty.
Tools in circulation.
Value in motion.
Gold surpassed $5K!!
So now we’ve got:
imaginary money
buying imaginary gold
to hedge against imaginary money
That’s Inception-level abstraction.
Some build structures.
Some build systems.
A rare few build the patterns beneath them all.
We read what they wish you never read.
TimeLocked.
A love built on choice, not obligation.
A bond strong enough to let go.
Official release date: 2026-01-31
What is sinister is folks saving their real time/energy in a system continuously generating imaginary digits simultaneously. 😏
Some point into the dark, others shine a light.
Listening to Running’ Knots while the board reads:
Knots 25 — 71%
Core 10 — 29%
The long game
Some will always want protection.
Some will always want freedom.
Both will build worlds around those desires.
And over time, results speak louder than promises.
That’s when the quiet migration accelerates.