Nostr needs more #piracy and #privacy

My cannabis plants love CO2 View quoted note →

@Hynek Are you still here? :-)

This is probably the best introductory article to "blockchain governance" describing surface dynamics (from Ethereum's perspective):

Understanding Blockchain Governance

Blockchain governance includes formal mechanisms like protocol upgrades and on-chain voting, alongside informal processes such as community discuss...

BTC Prague is the perfect example of what I'm talking about - it's the antithesis of what Bitcoin claims to represent. Expensive booths, overpriced drinks, VIP zones separating the "important" people from everyone else. It's just recreating the same hierarchical, commercial structures Bitcoin was supposed to route around. They push their narrative, control the conversation, and reject alternative perspectives. It's not a gathering of free people building parallel systems - it's an institution teaching people how to be institutional.

Everyone here wants censorship resistance and freedom from institutional control. Great. But what's the positive vision? Freedom to do what? Build what kind of world? Censorship resistance is infrastructure, not a destination. Without vision for what we're building on that foundation - what voluntary cooperation looks like, what replaces captured institutions - we're just optimizing for chaos, not civilization.

dystopia coming, and I bet AT Protocol will implement it right away View quoted note →

Ethereum is cypherpunk View quoted note →

few understand this View quoted note →