It’s “Shitcoin Season”…

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Weather has been crazy on the west coast…

The “Shanty for The Sovereign” went back to #1 on @Wavlake If you haven’t heard it, it’s pretty good.

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Let me know what you think about this song…A preview of what’s coming……….”OP_RETURN” New Album

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As you enter the Purpleverse for the first time today, remember that you are part of the earliest revolution in our time. Nostr may not be the biggest, or cleanest or smoothest but it damn sure beats any platform. It doesn’t hurt that I like you guys also. Gm Nostr.

selective ignorance is underrated most of what's demanding your attention was engineered to get it, and knowing about it doesn't hand you a single thing to do

I just heard my buddy refer to mansplaining as “correctile dysfunction”

Strip the lightning address off your profile then. No zap button, XMR only. If private tips are the better rail you lose nothing. View quoted note →

George be vibe coding like @Derek Ross

Ask what a payment network is for and you get two incompatible answers, and both of them are correct. Privacy money and public money are answering different questions about what a network is for. Private money assumes the goal is exit. Get out from under surveillance, transact without permission, stay unreadable. Public money assumes the goal is a functioning commons, where reputation and value are legible so strangers can coordinate without trusting each other first. Nostr is trying to be the second thing. It's a public square where people build audiences, and an economy is only visible if the payments are. A zap does something no private transfer can. It makes the value of good work legible to third parties who weren't part of the transaction. Price discovery only happens where prices are public. Everything else is bilateral deals.

Why is it easier to zap a shitpost than a note you actually thought about? There’s a gap that shows up in the data I think we should talk about… There's research on public gestures that should bother us. People who make a visible token show of support for a cause, wearing the pin, joining the group, signing the petition, end up less likely to do anything real for it afterward. Do it privately and the real support goes up. The public gesture settles the account. You looked like someone who cared, and the impulse that would've cost you something is gone. Hand somebody a dollar in quarters and they spend it. Hand them the same dollar as a bill and they hold it. People take the large denomination on purpose when they're trying to stop themselves. Nobody wants to break the bill. A sat balance is one bill. No coins in your pocket, just a number, and a number reads as an amount instead of change. So the default on a full wallet is leave it whole, and we tell ourselves that's discipline. Money is never generic in practice. People sort it constantly, same currency filed into rent money and money you'd never touch, and identical dollars behave differently depending on the pile. I’ve read some documentation on it and it holds up everywhere anyone's looked. We filed all of it into one pile. Every sat, savings. Correct call for fifteen years and it's the conviction that got us here. But the filing system can't tell cold storage apart from four thousand sats sitting in a hot wallet for exactly this purpose. @jack ‘s line about bitcoin going irrelevant if nobody spends it gets read as a merchant problem. It's smaller and worse than that. Money that never moves stops being money inside the head of the person holding it. You stop thinking in it. It becomes a number you check. Zapathons worked and the event had nothing to do with it. For one day everybody moved sats into a different pile and called it play. Nothing was being decided. Sats went out over dog photos, over jokes that didn't land, over a riff somebody recorded in their truck. The fix is a filing change. Move a chunk of sats into a pile marked play, small enough that losing it all costs you nothing, big enough to last the month. Then spend it like it isn't yours, because you already decided it isn't. We're the only network on earth where paying somebody for a good note is a normal thing to do. That only stays true while we're doing it.

Remember hearing, “you can be anything you wanna be.” That's how delusions work.

In 1907 one man was the Federal Reserve. No office, no ballot. The Treasury handed him $25 million and asked what he planned to do with it. Three years later six men rode to a private island under first names only and wrote a plan for the American money supply. That trip is real. Every man on it wrote about it later. Then the plan lost. Crushed in an election. So who wrote the thing we got in 1913? The answer is worse. Chapter 2. Discounted at 210 sats. Share it, get 42 Sats back for each referral

The Architecture of Power Chapter 2. The Island

210 sats - In 1907 one private banker acted as America's entire central bank, because there wasn't one. Six men took a train to a private island in...

Took this last night. With all the noise, sometimes it’s best to just look up and admire God’s creation.

Do you think that when fish get thrown back into the water by fishermen they go swimming around yelling about alien abductions and the other fish think they're crazy and stop talking to them?

Stack Sats…..Run Code…..That’s The Only Mode….

Mute me, block me, tell me I'm wrong to my face. Do all three. What you can't do is have me removed, and neither can anybody else, and that's worth more to me than a million people I'd never talk to anyway. Hard money underneath, real people on top. I'll build here. GM to “The Few, The Proud” who show up every single day!