*The dissonance between your expectations and the reality of crypto will eventually collapse if you believe in a Randian libertarian utopia*

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I do not regret spending 8 years of my life in crypto - Nic Carter \ stacker news

I do not regret spending 8 years of my life in crypto by Nic Carter No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the oth...

*Build systems that pay it forward, not lock it down* View quoted note →

*the legacy internet is not built for authenticity. It is built for extraction. Hidden algorithms push narratives, outrage, fear, and distraction. People think they are choosing, but they are being steered. Sometimes for profit. Sometimes for power* View quoted note →

*The missing piece is a more developed discovery ecosystem. A Nostr client acting as a crawler, an indexer, and a curator could build the needed visibility layer. Some early versions exist, but nothing has yet become the widely used tool for this* View quoted note →

*what we call "gains" are often just an optical illusion of currency debasement. High asset prices are merely the receipts for fiat printing* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin needs pervasive open computing. Hardware-based attestations do not stand against that in principle but in practice it often does. A smart phone has many chips and one of those can be - decoupled from the main functioning of the device - provide attestations but if you want it to attest to the OS being locked down then ... well ... you run a locked down OS or don't have attestations.* View quoted note →

*on balance, the organic, regenerative farm that is ...Nostr .... beats the degenerate slums of... “X”* View quoted note →

*that's why I'm so interested in building better protocol bridges, because eventually people will realize that Nostr is the "final destination."* View quoted note →

"The entire AI stack has usage-based COGS, from APIs down to the GPU infrastructure layer, which means that AI businesses often turn to usage-based pricing to keep their margins consistent," https://www.perplexity.ai/page/stripe-buys-metronome-for-1b-t-8MNNE6ZxRB6RZUXBOGoI6g

*the “merit” being tested is one’s ability to follow. It’s a test of one’s ability to pick up on what the current culture values and emulate that effectively. It’s a test of your trendiness and ability to curry favor with others* View quoted note →

*Art needs a medium that matches its intent and integrity... when the medium is aligned with the message, the message will inevitably thrive* View quoted note →

*The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff* View quoted note →

*No empire remains immune to seismic technological shifts* View quoted note →

*Currency is the financial boundary of the empire* View quoted note →

*if you want to call bitcoin empirical evidence, you’d need an observable that changes when you artificially impose a time lattice* View quoted note →

*I think the silver lining is most people think through a consensus filter, they have no principles or understanding beyond their own survival, so run with the herd. Bitcoiners being multi-disciplinary are an intransigent herd, they don't break off into other herds even if those other herds are bigger. Their numbers are therefore a one-way-ratchet, and the size of that herd compounds on itself... eventually attracting people on scale alone.*

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Bitcoin is complex; people are busy \ stacker news

I tend to feel there are three kinds of bitcoiners -- and each of them occupies a "niche of a niche." i. the technically-minded ii. the economicall...

*Purely technical people, lacking multi-disciplinary traits, are Bitcoin's greatest liability. They fail to recognize its value is from being a paragon of stability and relative simplicity, and so they're always seeking to change it... fortunately they fail more often than not due to a design meant to resist them, and end up shitcoiners.*

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Bitcoin is complex; people are busy \ stacker news

I tend to feel there are three kinds of bitcoiners -- and each of them occupies a "niche of a niche." i. the technically-minded ii. the economicall...

*I think there is a paradox here that puts a fly in the ointment of mass adoption: the more money printed, the more life sucks for most people, the less time/resources/energy they have to learn about bitcoin*

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Bitcoin is complex; people are busy \ stacker news

I tend to feel there are three kinds of bitcoiners -- and each of them occupies a "niche of a niche." i. the technically-minded ii. the economicall...

*At some point, many people begin to believe they are already smart enough and no longer need to learn. And that is the exact moment when growth stops. Ego replaces curiosity, certainty replaces exploration, and development freezes.* View quoted note →

*NOSTR isn’t just a network — it’s the largest Lightning experiment on Earth* View quoted note →