You’re compensated in exact proportion to the value you create.

You know what’s wild? I’ll pay $8 for a beer that makes me dumber but suddenly become an economist when it’s time to zap a post that made me smarter. We need to talk…🍻 View article →

BREAKING SATIRE ALERT: Mossad Evaluates Nostr Integration Analysis of potential operational benefits After successfully conducting operations in approximately 194 countries without asking permission once, Mossad strategic analysts have reportedly spent 3.5 minutes evaluating whether decentralized social protocols offer tactical advantages. Current Assessment: “We already communicate through exploding pagers, invisible ink, and telepathy,” noted one anonymous source. “Do we really need another protocol?” Potential Benefits Identified: -Zaps could fund operations (though they prefer more traditional methods like “we’re taking this now, thank you”) -Censorship resistant notes (as if anyone has successfully censored them before) -Decentralized identity (they already have 47 identities per agent) Drawbacks: - Public key cryptography leaves trails -They prefer cryptography that even mathematicians haven’t invented yet -Nostr relays can see your IP address (Mossad prefers IPs that trace to a taco truck in Paraguay that closed in 1987) Historical Context: Mossad’s approach to international cooperation can be summarized as: -UN: “You can’t just—” -Mossad: already did it -Allied nations: “Could you at least tell us when—” -Mossad: “No ❤️” Conclusion: Will Mossad join Nostr? Unclear. Are they already on it using 3,000 sockpuppet accounts? Probably. Do they care about our protocol preferences? They’re currently in your walls. This post will self destruct. Or not. You’ll never know. #Nostr #Mossad #Satire #TheyreWatchingThisPost

Every sat represents a claim on finite energy in a world of infinite fiat, but more importantly, it represents optionality and freedom.

Who has Nostr loyalty? Anyone who’s tired of renting their digital existence. Anyone who believes exit should always be an option. Anyone who knows that protocol > platform. Besides Bitcoin… we’re not maximalists. We’re protocol minimalists…minimum trust, minimum intermediaries, maximum freedom. The protocol doesn’t need loyalty. It needs adoption. We need loyalty to the future we want to inhabit. Your keys, your notes, your network.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Enough of the hollow noise we call influence. Our culture is rotting beneath the weight of its own vanity. We follow faces instead of principles. We chase attention instead of meaning. Influence has been stripped of its purpose and sold to the highest bidder. But the tide can turn. It begins with those who refuse to be part of the decay. Influence was never meant to entertain. It was meant to awaken. It was meant to lead, to lift, to light fires in the dark. We do not need more influencers. We need architects of a new culture. People who stand for truth even when silence is safer. People who use their voice to build, not to beg for validation. People who understand that integrity is a weapon and clarity is revolution. To influence now must mean to serve something greater. It must mean discipline over impulse, vision over vanity, purpose over profit. It must mean living as an example of the world we want to build. Let the old system collapse under its own emptiness. We are not here to imitate it. We are here to replace it. Influence is no longer a game. It is a battlefield for the collective mind. Those who still believe in truth, beauty, and courage are the new resistance. The future belongs to those who use their influence to awaken, not to manipulate. To build, not to consume. To serve, not to sell.

If you believe in Nostr, stop worshipping freedom as an ideology. Start building sovereignty as a system. The revolution won’t come from the loudest voices. It will come from the first network that makes truth uncensorable economically, technically, and socially.

Maybe Nostr’s forcing function is brutal enough to fix this. When you can’t hide behind institutional credibility or SEO optimized word count, and your npub reputation is all you have, the empty calories get filtered out fast. Either say something worth reading or get muted into irrelevance. View quoted note →

The digital migration isn’t complete until it’s complete. And I’m here for everyone who’s drawing that line, who’s saying “this is where I build, this is where I stay.”

A snippet of “Own The Signal” Verse 2 Convenience turned to rust and rot Every choice already bought Fake salvation, dopamine Buried deep inside the machine I hear the hum beneath your sound A pulse of truth that you shut down No gods, no screens, no deal to sign This time the voice is mine Chorus I’m cutting the wires, I’m breaking the chains No more silence, no more pain You can’t erase what you can’t control I’m taking back the signal you stole I own my voice, I own my skin You’ll never cage me again

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Gm Nostr 🫵🏻☕️ And welcome back to the greatest social protocol on the planet, the PurpleVerse

Accurate.

Governments tried to ban PGP encryption in the ’90s. Someone printed the source code in a book, suddenly it was protected speech. Now Bitcoin transactions can ride HF radio bands alongside weather reports and ham chatter. Value transfer just became First Amendment territory. View quoted note →