We finally have the tools to escape surveillance capitalism. Micropayments work at scale. Stop building ad-tech. Start trading for value directly with users who actually want to pay you. View article →

Wen blossom server in @Citrine @greenart7c3

Economic progress springs from four sources: division of labor multiplies productivity through specialization, capital accumulation transforms present resources into future productivity, technological progress generates non-rivalrous ideas that overcome physical limits, and entrepreneurial function coordinates everything through creative destruction. State intervention systematically corrupts each source by destroying the property rights and price signals they require. Cryptographic technology now enables these sources to operate beyond political interference. View article →

Small businesses face 41-57% rejection rates for basic trade finance while the same banks hold $192 trillion in derivatives positions. Basel III treats a letter of credit backing real goods as riskier than abstract financial instruments that produce nothing. The system works exactly as designed: extracting value from those who create it, denying credit to those who need it most. View article →

Nice, a ride sharing app powered by nostr just hit @Zapstore by @VariableFate

Ridestr - Zapstore

Request rides and pay with Bitcoin using Cashu ecash. Built on Nostr for censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer ridesharing. Features: - RoadFlare per...

I've had my mind blown each time I read the papers regarding BitVM. It's just insane how much we can build on Bitcoin without changing consensus. Massively bullish. View article →

For fifteen years, Bitcoin has faced a fundamental limitation: most attempts to extend its functionality required trusting custodians without unilateral exit. Exchanges hold your keys. Wrapped bitcoin protocols control the underlying assets. Early sidechains trapped funds behind federation signatures. Each custodial solution creates honeypots that attract both hackers and regulators, with users having no recourse when trust fails. Lightning improved this with unilateral exit mechanisms, yet remained limited to payment channels between specific parties. The search for trustless bridges with arbitrary computation became Bitcoin's holy grail, pursued by brilliant minds yet always remaining just out of reach. View article →

I wasn't happy with @Npub.pro loading speed and limited customization, so I vibed my own Nostr website. All my notes and articles sync to a local cache and build as static pages. Loads instantly and has client-side search. Check it out: towardsliberty.com

John Vervaeke's cognitive science reveals that true agency cannot be computed, only lived through caring organisms that realize relevance. This explains why Bitcoin's thermodynamic proof-of-work and Nostr's self-sovereign identity preserve human agency while algorithmic platforms capture and destroy it. The technologies that matter are those that protect the non-computational processes from which freedom emerges, transcending raw computational speed. View article →

Can I just say how cool it is that on my shit posting app I get notified which parts of my book people really like. Nostr is just awesome. View quoted note →