Digital ID is being sold as the modern alternative to governments protecting their citizens from foreign invasion. People welcome it because their governments have intentionally not done so.
What if those invaders and their entrenched traitors control the digital ID issuance? Newsflash: they already do.
When you see Jesus Christ, there is nothing hidden. You can see his perfection, there is no corruption or hate in him.
When you are in his presence, your corruption is fully unveiled. You know that he can see all of you, and you will be ashamed.
You will ask his mercy, but you will also know he owes you no mercy. You will try to hide by blaming others or the world, but your claims are folly and you know it. There is no deceiving Christ because your heart is laid bare. There is no longer your fleshy veil.
This is when you will either be judged or shown mercy. Your judgement will be undeniable, because you will have no escape from the truth which was written your heart since before time. This moment will come like a thief in the night.
Be ever present and be perfected as your Heavenly Father is perfect.
Has bitcoin hit menopause?
I’ve been thinking — no, worrying — about this bitcoin thing. What if the government wakes up one morning and decides it’s displeased? The Bible says government is ordained by God, so if the government disapproves, then surely God disapproves, and I would be—how do you say—sinning by holding it. Better to sell now, before the thunderbolt of divine-and-official disfavor strikes.
Imagine the headline: “Local Man Defies Almighty and IRS.” They’ll send a polite letter first, the kind that makes your hands tremble: “Do you still possess any bitcoin?” And what will I do? Admit it on my tax return? Check “yes” and sign with trembling blood? No. Because once they know, they’ll know. Once they know, they’ll suspect. And suspicion breeds inquiries, and inquiries breed subpoenas, and subpoenas lead to awkward conversations at PTA.
Besides, everyone knows bitcoin was invented by cyber people who don’t like the government. I do not want to look like I might be one of those people. There are drug dealers and prostitutes in possession of bitcoin. I would be mistaken for a drug dealer. I would be mistaken for a prostitute. My lawn would acquire an unseemly reputation. People would whisper. Children would point.
And suppose they outlaw it. Imagine the law books suddenly rewritten, the statute’s ink still wet, and me in possession of even a satoshi. Would I resist? No. I would have to be a bad boy. They would come with firm expressions and clipboards. I would be shamed at the post office for mailing myself back to virtue.
So I must act now. Sell it all. Turn my ledger into cash. Replace radical decentralization with polite centralization. Exchange liberty for comfort, sovereignty for sleep. After all, if the Lord and the state agree, who am I to dissent?
All day with the mail and dns server. Wheee
When Nostr reaches critical mass, it will sit at the center of multinational counterintelligence. Expect bots, spam, and assets on both sides: populist and “mainstream”, that inject disinformation into every ideological cluster. The goal won’t be dialogue, but polarization.
We already see it in the V.S. knots debate: fallacies, red herrings, character attacks. Not engagement, but division. Anger replaces reason; useful idiots are shielded from opposing views.
This is not Nostr’s flaw, it is its success. We saw the same tactics on centralized platforms during COVID and elections, and we still see them now. Any corporate “self-regulation” will fail. Central points of control are permanent points of failure.
The question is whether we build tools that bridge divides, or walls that entrench them.
GM
