When value flows as freely as information we remember what we lost. Direct economic signal between humans. No mediation. No censorship. No one standing between appreciation and compensation extracting their percentage. There’s nothing quite like frictionless Sats flowing…Feels good.

The Nostr forcing function… No algorithm. No recommendations. Just silence…until YOU act. Want to see something? Follow people. Want culture? Create it. Want community? Build it.

Nostr proves that meaningful connection requires skin in the game. Lurking is easy. Consuming is passive. But community demands participation. The “force” isn’t tyranny, it’s the natural state of human interaction before platforms turned us into content cattle. We’re not forced into production. We’re freed to be human again. This is the way. 🤙

Every time someone gets exiled from their own digital home, the need for Nostr becomes less ideological and more inevitable. View quoted note →

Satoshi’s greatest gift wasn’t the code. It was the silence that followed. The code proved the idea works. The silence proved no one owns it. He left so Bitcoin could live. No cult. No leader. No face to corrupt. That isn’t mysticism. It is design. Removing himself was the final patch. The human vulnerability was fixed by absence. The silence still matters. Because it keeps speaking long after he stopped.

Every generation has its idol. Ours is comfort. Comfort numbs the drive that once made men dangerous. The drive to build, to fight, to protect, to repair, to bring form out of chaos. We have replaced the glory of doing with the illusion of appearing.

Christian men must come to understand that there has been a vast conspiracy to neuter them. They must decide before God that they are done cooperating with this demented program. You need to be masculine without permission. Without a license from the civil magistrate. Without a stamp of approval from effeminate elders. Without a permission slip from your wife. The modern world sells you autonomy. Liberation from binding commitments. But you’re not fully alive when you’re untethered. You’re fully alive when you’re bound to something worth dying for. Your wife. Your children. That covenant is your glory, and your responsibility before God is total.

Bitcoin and Nostr aren’t merely technical alternatives. They’re assertions that individuals should retain the unmediated ability to speak and transact. Permissionless systems don’t ask whether your views are acceptable. They function regardless of social approval or institutional gatekeeping.

The “platforming” discourse has become absurd. Engaging with someone isn’t endorsement. Responding to disagreement isn’t amplification. It’s just conversation. Public speech is an arena, not a throne room. When you speak publicly, you invite response. Follower count doesn’t grant immunity from being wrong or shield you from correction. It shouldn’t. The best ideas aren’t fragile. They improve through collision with opposing views. Truth emerges from open discourse, not from gatekeepers deciding who deserves to be heard. I’ve been corrected here on Nostr. I’ve changed my mind. I’ve learned things. That’s not weakness, that’s the entire point of thinking in public. The notion that engaging with someone “smaller” somehow elevates dangerous ideas is patronizing to everyone involved. It assumes audiences can’t think critically. It assumes you’re the arbiter of acceptable thought. It assumes disagreement is contamination. Real intellectual confidence means welcoming the challenge. If your ideas can’t survive contact with opposition, they probably weren’t that solid to begin with. Free markets of ideas require actual freedom. Not curated gardens where only pre-approved voices get watered. The discomfort of being challenged is the price of growth. This is what open protocols enable…spaces where truth seeking matters more than status protecting. Where dialogue isn’t a threat to your position but an opportunity to refine it. Engage openly. Be corrected freely. Build better ideas together. That’s how we all get smarter. Gm and Pura Vida

Politicians discovering Bitcoin is like boomers discovering Spotify…lots of noise, no clue where the music comes from.