Is it time for bitcoin friends to do more in the world than talk about how brilliant they are and how much better the world will be, and actually become powerful today? View quoted note →

An internet architecture built by resentful nerds, the children of hippies and immigrants wanting to rise above their station. Are you surprised it turned into this? Who is building the Nietzschean cyberspace? With hierarchy, order, truth, and beauty? De'mos-graph is destiny.

If you never "short bitcoin" (spend) Do you not short yourself For an imagined future, a legacy-- Do you truly live in a way that is legendary? Dreaming of nothing more than the distant descendant who says: you were a GENIUS, so much SMARTER. And THEY will know it, ha! :)

Is bitcoin rare, or is the pursuit of money just about the most banal thing in the world? Do you really think of yourself as rare for having found a peak, of a most common activity within human life? Why do you care to be sovereign, if you are merely excellent within the herd?

What if the great game Is to build the battleground For the true culture wars? The cultures that have been unable to flourish On the cesspool brought to us By Gates and Jobs? I am sure I will speak with Jack Dorsey again Eternal recurrence

What does it mean for bitcoin to become culture? Nearly every bitcoiner goes through a phase of wanting to explain bitcoin to people, and who wouldn't! Isn't it fun to explain new things? Most people realize that the success rate of explanation is quite low and decide it is no longer fun. It is easy to say bitcoin shatters a lot of false beliefs for people and that "we" are so clever so of course the masses will be slow, but is this true? Or might there actually be a profound epistemic flaw in the idea of explanation in and of itself as a method of spreading ideas? If a person thinks they are reasonable, would they not project that sense onto others, and thereby, affirm their view of themselves by giving someone else an explanation, about anything? So who is threatened, existentially? Are you not the first to be by the mere implicit assertion that explanations are a thing that work? For if the possibility that you adopted a thing for a reason other than cleverness exists, what does that say about your understanding of the world? Rather than giving you all my thoughts on these matters, do you see something that might have been broadly missed about the nature by which things are adopted? And please, do not be so lazy to say that we are adopting plenty fast; this is a discussion on propagation dynamics, not an argument about what is or isn't "fast enough". Also, avoid the tautology that once it is adopted broadly, it will thus be culture. Finally, I posit that the adornments of bitcoiners to various lifestyles whether constructive or degenerate, diets, marital patterns, nomadism, etc. are not cultural inventions of bitcoin. Being wealthy, leisurely, and so on are cultural modes of being that exist outside bitcoin.

Do bitcoiners wish bitcoin store and define all their values, To relieve them of the great weight of authoring their own?

Looking at the quality of discourse on the right, by people retarded enough to think shitcoins are real, it makes it obvious that the only way things get better politically is if heritage bitcoiners get into politics, and win. We need American Hodl (@HODL) to be Vance's VP in 2028. There is no need to cajole, lobby, and ask politicians to do favors for bitcoiners and hope that the world does not destabilize in a way that causes mass violence targeted at bitcoiners, it can just be done directly. Why did we need to wait until some guy with a shitty software company started buying bitcoin? Why couldn't a bitcoiner start a billion dollar public company? This is the moment. Everyone is talking about the economy. Only bitcoiners can provide answers. Only bitcoiners can provide a compelling narrative to counter the rise of Momdami types. The Republicans have no problem with fiat-communism, so they are losing. Stop orangepilling politicians, it doesn't work. We need 1st decade bitcoiners running for office.

Two sided marketplaces that are centralized must be decentralized with NOSTR for people to have freedom of association again. It is insane that anyone tolerates these forced interactions rather than granularly, parametrically, game theoretically trading with individuals.

Anyone have thoughts on Riga, Latvia? I know the Baltics Honeybadger is held there, but don't know much else as an American. Is there reason to be bullish on the country? Reasons to be concerned?

Who do you think has a higher IQ? Person A, who says: “Bitcoin fixes everything.” Or person B who says: “Life, as Schrödinger observed in the early 20th century can be seen as the emergence of self-replicating negentropy maximization machines, and if we combine this with noting the cybernetic principle states that the purpose of a machine is it does, we now have perfectly described the purpose of life. Further, upon reflecting on the ever outward spiraling set of energy inputs into all consumed goods & services, we find human economic decisions are based on localized information amidst opportunity costs as to the negentropy maximizing action, of course, setting a global objective value function within which the appearance of subjective preference is a mere stochastic process to escape local maxima, and then by Landauer's principle we must note that destruction of information, as is this with a money that is not a fixed numerical partition, is entropic, which is minimized with the energy minimal fixed money Schelling point, bitcoin's proof of work being such an absolute minimum being trivial, indicates that all economic desires are delivered most expediently by the market on a bitcoin standard after all fiat money has vanished.”

Anyone here use Threema? More secure than Signal?

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No one will care about NOSTR Until the gig economy is on NOSTR

Was talking to a guy who thinks he's a thinker Said that bitcoin is not for him, not in an anti-bitcoin way, just contrived vibes based thing Just found out he was trying to bum money off a friend of mine for travel expenses Yikes -- looks like he should have bought bitcoin!

My pan tweet went viral on Twitter. With 2 million views, that's 100x more than all the people on Nostr. Nostr needs economic, two-sided-marketplace apps to gain traction imho. https://x.com/DeltaClimbs/status/1960542748647547120

A friend called me yesterday: "Hey, I'm a completely different person" (I could hear it in his voice) "...I am now a bitcoin person. I appreciate you telling me crypto was all BS years ago because it helped give me the conviction to go with my gut." Men must be toxic to evil

"Imagine a special passport issued by the League of Sovereign Individuals, identifying the holder as a person under the protection of the league." - The Sovereign Individual, page 320 How many years are we from AnchorWatch becoming the first such league? 🤔👀

From The Sovereign Individual I am learning that in the early years of the printing press, from 1518 to 1525, Luther's works were a third of all German language books sold. So there is nothing odd about most of Nostr being discussion centered on Bitcoin.

Spending KYC bitcoin with KYC merchants isn't using bitcoin Receiving bitcoin payments via PoS auto-convert isn't using bitcoin Buying nonKYC coconut for $5 of bitcoin isn't using bitcoin Zapping people isn't using bitcoin Only store OV, standard OV, and measure OV are uses.