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The outrage about the core dev funding is strange to me. Of course every kind of covert and overt power player is going to try or has tried to control something as powerful and technically revolutionary as Bitcoin. The point of bitcoin, and its sufficiently decetralized open ecosystem, is that it is built to withstand this. Any other system would be irrevocably corrupted by even a tiny percentage of the kind of pressure and control tactics that has been thrown at Bitcoin over the years and yet it prevails. More than that, it continues to grow in reach and thrive. The easiest most accessible way to counter balance sick and corrupt systems is to build on, support and grow open and decentralized ones.

Just received my nostr:nprofile1qqs9v9et20mnqagtgrnrc5qmzcrgmkt2y3087p23vawqlmyczlhfdcqprdmhxue69uhkvet9v3ejumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtmsd93hxqgswaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5dem46u Coldcard Q & already love it! Very cool both in looks and functionality! ⚡️

Hot take - The end is always the beginning. The very groups who are grasping for more access and control over individual digital privacy will be the reason cryptographic decentralized infrastructure will win. It may seem counterintuitive, but as countries intensify their focus on "privacy" (AI data mining) and "narrative filters" (ideological and political censorship), the burden of compliance with laws and defensive measures will become so heavy that many companies will be forced to exit regions altogether. This is of course not long term sustainable business practice, effectively transforming once international companies into limited regional operations. It's a significant economic shift. Smart people within large companies (who want to keep their jobs and ensure company growth) will gradually recognize that technologies like cryptographic key-based IDs and wallets (like NOSTR) and zero-knowledge proofs are the solution. So it’s essentially a switching of the burden of compliance by the company to consumers. It removes both cost and complexity from the corporation to the individual. From a privacy perspective, it's remarkable that this technology offers the most elegant and straightforward way to comply with privacy laws. It provides full global technical compliance by default (right to forget, subscription settings, cookie settings, proof of human-ness etc). It’s also the only current proven method to protect the individual from the overreach of political or civil ideology in the technical domain. It's only going to take one or two large corporations to figure this out & the tide will shift.

To deny what is real in this moment, Is to deny every possibility of freedom it holds.

The universe reaching out it’s twisted strange hand to push you over, to push you down, to push you off your current path is the helping hand you’ve begged for in the dark of the night, in the recesses of your mind. Pay attention, you are in conversation. Image: The three Spheres II by MC Escher (1946)

“stabbing our left hand with a fork so our right hand can get some chicken. “ This is what I think about when I see people celebrating the BTC federal fund launching with the proceeds of the Samurai wallet. (Quote from an episode of Philosophiz This)

Another World Watching you Watching me Watch the world I created Is the ultimate lesson in control. It’s all so far away. This is the potion of the unintended consequence. When all I need to do is decide. To switch it all off. Disconnect. Turn, face you, look you in the eyes, hold your hand in mind and say; I see you.

Stillness, is the acceptance, that sometimes the furtherest distance we will ever travel, is the space between the stories we tell ourselves… and the truth.

This is always the hard part. When everything is out of view. When I no longer see where I am heading. Where I have come from has disappeared behind me. I am no where On my way to somewhere And all I can do, is surrender. Artwork by faithloveart.xyz

The elephant in the room. Come, pull up a chair, I made space for you. And just like that, the truth became part of her life again. Artwork by Lukas Vojir https://blossom.primal.net/67d5481ec96c305dbb56d6a719822c705a22523f327cdc6e6aeb190b94840beb.mov

Let’s go! nostr:npub10qdp2fc9ta6vraczxrcs8prqnv69fru2k6s2dj48gqjcylulmtjsg9arpj

Inner glow.

Seeing Double 😍

Medicine.