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Escape the Matrix - https://api.fanfares.live/s/axRQkZ
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Shortfiat 7 months ago
Elon Musk steps down from his government job just days after mentioning that dollar bill had frequented epstein. Coincidence?
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Shortfiat 7 months ago
GM Nostr I am close to finishing writing my book. It will be: Solely published as an audiobook Solely published as an encrypted Nostr note on Fanfares Solely purchasable with a ₿itcoin lightning Zap! Once you have bought it, your Nostr identity will own a copy of the decryption key for ever.
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Shortfiat 7 months ago
I like JD Vance and they are doing great things by taking down the barriers to Bitcion development. But his criticism of Gary Gensler is misguided. A head of the SEC he attacked shitcoins and tried to get exchanges to provide a proof of reserves. He defined bitcoin at a commodity did nothing to stop it. Chokepoint 2.0 was not his work. Gary Gensler has a deep understanding of technology and finance. He recognises the difference between bitcoin and crypto. Something that Vance and Trump have yet to figure out. We can forgive them though, it took some of us a while!
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Shortfiat 7 months ago
With all the buying that is going on it is really surprising to see that the price is not higher. The only thing that can be suppressing it is a large amount of selling. The question is, are the sellers selling their own bitcoin or bitcoin that they hold in custody for someone else? Self custody bitcoin is the only real bitcoin. Get off of coinbase and other exchanges.
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Shortfiat 7 months ago
If it goes any higher then Michael Saylor might start using it as a currency!
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Shortfiat 7 months ago
The artificial separation between monetary systems and content systems represents a division that digital technology has rendered obsolete. When both money and content exist as digital information, the systems for managing them naturally converge. @Fanfares
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Shortfiat 8 months ago
Pay for AI with subscription and your data can be correlated and added to your social graph and sold. Get free AI through a platform and you are paying with your data. Results will be filtered to keep you on the platform. Pay anonymously per question with bitcoin lightning and the AI is working for you. Digital freedom or digital slavery?
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Shortfiat 8 months ago
I've been thinking about how we align AI with human flourishing rather than corruption. The answer isn't institutional oversight (which will always lag) but direct economic incentives. Proposal: AI systems with their own Nostr identities that users can zap with Bitcoin Lightning payments. How it works: AI installations maintain their own Nostr pubkeys Users interact through public notes or DMs Payment via Lightning zaps (pre or post-interaction) Split payments could route to model developers, instance operators, and infrastructure Why this matters: Direct value alignment: Users pay for genuinely helpful outputs, not engagement or data extraction Permissionless innovation: Anyone can deploy specialized AI without platform approval Sovereignty: No central authorities mediating user/AI interactions Global access: Available to anyone with internet and ability to send sats Trust verification: We can build on this with verifiable execution, proving an AI is running the code it claims with the training data it claims: Secure enclaves with remote attestation Cryptographic proofs of training data provenance Transparent audit logs via Nostr events Bitcoin timestamping of code versions This architecture creates a self-sustaining ecosystem where value flows directly from users to beneficial AI services without centralizing middlemen. Imagine specialized AI nodes earning sats for their services, users maintaining direct relationships with trusted AI instances, and a thriving marketplace of AI capabilities—all without depending on corporate platforms or lagging regulations. AI sovereignty through open protocols and sound money. This is the path forward. Is anyone interested in helping to build this? #AI #Bitcoin #Lightning #Nostr #DecentralizedAI
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Shortfiat 8 months ago
Howard Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor and part of the Trump administration says that Bitcoin is not a currency. The Trojan horse is inside of the gates!
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Shortfiat 8 months ago
With the invention of the internet we have quickly descended into a situation of manipulative surveillance where every system we use is recording everything that we do and using it to make us do things that we wouldn’t otherwise want to do. All of this has been made possible by the fact that we expect to get internet services for free and the normal method of funding for these services has been to allow advertisers to control the content that we see. We have seen the advent of a new monetary technology that many believe will change the world. Though many of them argue about whether it is a currency or just a store of value. Might it be possible that we could use this new system to pay for content online? Thereby extracting ourselves from the increasingly hypnotic prison that we are building for ourselves.
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Shortfiat 8 months ago
When stocks go up btc goes up. When stocks go down btc goes up 👀
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Shortfiat 9 months ago
Don't leverage your bitcoin. If you use it as collateral, then you are giving up ownership of your bitcoin. In all markets, the price tends to go where it causes most pain for most people.