"No longer available in your region" 🇨🇿 Lightning is a really "special" technology. I think I'm pretty tech-savvy, but in the 7 years that LN has been around, I haven't figured out how to use it in a way that I can also pass on to less technical people. It just seems like an endless battle with obfuscation. Public Cashu mints will only exist until states start threatening them. Unless cashu would work on Tor?

In just 2 days, three thousands of people who were convicted of growing #cannabis for their own use will leave Czech prisons. 🕊 From January 1, 2026, growing 5 plants and possessing 50g (or 200g at home) will no longer be a crime in 🇨🇿 Czech Republic 🌱 View quoted note →

Super Lemon Haze blooming into the new year #cannabis

I start reading with "Farewell to Westphalia", the perfect way to welcome the new year

My plan for the next year: * read books - over the last few years I have accumulated a large number of interesting books that I want to read * try to organize my dream conference focused on freedom and decentralization * think more about anarcho-convivialism and maybe write a book * spend more time with my friends and flowers :)

One of the big lessons and experiences was also Web3Privacy Now. It began with a simple idea: organize a privacy conference focused on Web3 and Ethereum in Prague. In 2022/23, virtually no one was addressing privacy in this space, and I wanted to change that. Finding like-minded collaborators proved easy - soon a small community formed around the concept. We launched events across Europe, bringing together innovative people and projects that might otherwise never have connected. I envisioned a do-ocratic community - one where initiative mattered more than hierarchy, where no single person held control. But as months passed, reality diverged from vision. I found myself surrounded by people who talked like cypherpunks but acted like corporate strategists. They favored structure over spontaneity, command over collaboration. Everyone wore the aesthetic of decentralization, but when decisions needed making, they invariably reached for traditional power structures. What started as an organic, community-driven effort gradually calcified into just another institution.

It's been an interesting ride since my "Decentralizované sociální sítě" talk (in czech) at Prague's Paralelní Polis in July 2023. I watched AT Protocol grow from 40K to 40M users in real time. Watched "decentralization" morph from architecture into theater. Watched people I respect make compromises and bow to groupthink. Got a front-row seat to US cancel culture and everything that comes with it. Incredibly valuable experience. Meanwhile, as Bluesky exploded, I kept hoping Nostr would move somewhere. Instead, it feels frozen. Zero adoption, and people actually celebrate the smallness and coziness - the exact things that vanish with scale. I thought AT Protocol and Nostr were technical opposites moving toward the same goal. I was wrong. They're opposites moving away from each other, and the gap widens every day.

2.5 years ago I left X and swapped it for Bluesky, and the urge to go back to X completely disappeared, total ignorance... but since I switched to Nostr I have a constant urge to lurk on X or Bluesky again, because Nostr offers almost no interesting content regarding my interests and hobbies - except for digital gold, market-anarchism and conspiracy theories I think I'll pack up in a few weeks and move on again... :/

Leaving X or Bluesky to join Nostr is like quitting McDonald's to eat at a vegan co-op that only serves one dish and everyone agrees it's the best dish ever invented.

suitcoiners

Joey Krug, co-founder of Augur, on cryptonatives, prediction markets, Polymarket, regulations, DATs, AI, L1 valuations.. interesting

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." ― Noam Chomsky

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell

"A society committed to the institutionalization of values identifies the production of goods and services with the demand for such. Education which makes you need the product is included in the price of the product. School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. In such a society marginal value has become constantly self-transcendent. It forces the few largest consumers to compete for the power to deplete the earth, to fill their own swelling bellies, to discipline smaller consumers, and to deactivate those who still find satisfaction in making do with what they have. The ethos of nonsatiety is thus at the root of physical depredation, social polarization, and psychological passivity." - Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1970

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Deschooling Society

Ivan Illich Deschooling Society 1970 “Illich, Ivan — Deschooling Society (Marion Boyars, 1970)” was added by El Vagabundo Argelino.

I hope someone is already working on this :) View quoted note →