Reading Zeihan’s *The End of the World is Just The Beginning*
He clearly understands fiat’s structural problems, but then frames both GME and Bitcoin as examples of fiat *failure* rather than what they actually are.
GME wasn’t “gamer mania”, it was market structure meeting coordinated information flow. Bitcoin’s success isn’t a symptom of fiat failure, it’s an architectural response to it.
Conflating monetary dysfunction with market mechanics and treating a new monetary protocol as speculative mania wasn’t something I saw coming.
#bookstr
#photography
#photography
Be like water
Claude Code on the web has been interesting. I think Claude Code coming to mobile is the highlight, though.
I enhanced the #Plurcast --nostr-pow (#NIP13) implementation by using a custom mining setup rather than the library's .pow method, so now it's multithreaded and finishes quicker.
I've been revising my #GitHub Readme, sharing more about my project visions, and I added my Bitcoin/Lightning addresses.
I'm excited to get out and do some #photography today
#art
Bech32 encoding:
note1 prefix = Nostr event ID
q character in bech32 = zero/low value in the underlying data
Multiple qs at the start = leading zeros = proof of work
proof of work forces intentionality. Mining a #Nostr note means you had time to cancel the thought broadcast.
thinking about cryptographic attestation chains
#Plurcast now supports --nostr-pow, enabling #NIP13 to embed proof of work into your Nostr notes. The previous note had a --nostr-pow 22 and took maybe 10-15 seconds to mine.
NIP-13 is a Nostr Implementation Possibility (NIP) that defines a method for generating and interpreting Proof of Work (PoW) for nostr notes. PoW is used as a bearer proof that relays and clients can universally validate with simple code. It helps to deter spam by requiring computational effort to be proven on a note. The difficulty is measured by the number of leading zero bits in the note ID.
I watched The Big Short last night, it was really good. Definitely catered towards people that enjoy finance, but they also made an attempt at bringing everyone along, and there were a few moments that were pretty funny.
#art
I love the idea of creating physical art products like t-shirts and stickers etc, but I'm also trying to be intentional about participating in philosophically aligned systems.
#SCT project management: I need to do human verification on sct-vec and plur-send queue functionality.
As I redesign my link hub (www.everythingsings.art), I'll likely not feature my Redbubble shop anymore. It was a fun experiment but I haven't been maintaining it, and I don't think it's very loved. I won't delete it entirely, I still want to make products for myself, but I need to simplify.
