at a cypherpunk conference. some thoughts:
- interesting humans with many different backgrounds: hacktivists, cryptographers, civil society activists, infrastructure guys, electronic voting people, vpn people, tor devs, solarpunks, radio comms, file sharing, internet archive, general freedom tech, and many more.
- bitcoin is mentioned all the time but there are practically no bitcoiners in sight. I'm the bitcoin guy now.
- everyone knows about nostr. people are very interested in it. maybe 2-3 nostr users are here, no devs. many people representing bluesky. I'm the nostr guy now.
- many people know about cashu and bitchat. lots of excitement.
- many synergies, lots of groups and companies working together. the urgency is obvious. cypherpunk vibes are strong.
verdict: bitcoin and nostr are severely under-represented in communtities where a lot of important work is done. shitcoin phobia isn't a good reason to not engage in a much larger discourse about privacy, freedom, and technology. we haven't lost the plot but have a lot more to do.
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your verdict is on point.
View quoted note →Why do I seem to remember this exact text being posted before
What a fucking quote. Well said
@calle 👏
"shitcoin phobia isn't a good reason to not engage in a much larger discourse about privacy, freedom, and technology. we haven't lost the plot but have a lot more to do."
View quoted note →Thanks for the representation, brother. Keep grinding.
yeah
weird how every single Bitcoin event, podcast and article absolutely CANNOT delve into the wider space at all.
retarded tbh
this is the way, not Bitcoin maximalism.
Gotta sell those ads for Bitcoin companies and sponsors. No different than any other thing driven by ads and sponsors.
Just look at the Bitcoin Conference.
100%. Also can be a bit eye-rolling how the term shitcoin is often used here to refer to things where the coin itself plays the most minor of roles.
We need the Cypherpunk Manifesto to go mainstream. #rebels
Thanks for all the hard work!
Oh, and the Sovereign Individual should be mandatory reading in High School.
Calle…wearing many hats, on a mission. 🫂🫡
Npubs?
You are the future man. Most bitcoiners are about NGU-only, unfortunately. Although that narrative is important, it‘s not the core. It should enable people to live free, so it must be integrated in (most) digital tools, that have little to do with bitcoin, but with a free digital world. Thanks for always going out the bitcoin bubble!
How about connecting a working LN-address, which will enable plebs to zap you freedom money?
…@getalby.com LN-addresses normally work
@Alby
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Great job 👏 i wish I could find a meeting like tibia in my hometown Florence 🇮🇹❤️
It takes community of people working together
calle
at a cypherpunk conference. some thoughts:
- interesting humans with many different backgrounds: hacktivists, cryptographers, civil society activists, infrastructure guys, electronic voting people, vpn people, tor devs, solarpunks, radio comms, file sharing, internet archive, general freedom tech, and many more.
- bitcoin is mentioned all the time but there are practically no bitcoiners in sight. I'm the bitcoin guy now.
- everyone knows about nostr. people are very interested in it. maybe 2-3 nostr users are here, no devs. many people representing bluesky. I'm the nostr guy now.
- many people know about cashu and bitchat. lots of excitement.
- many synergies, lots of groups and companies working together. the urgency is obvious. cypherpunk vibes are strong.
verdict: bitcoin and nostr are severely under-represented in communtities where a lot of important work is done. shitcoin phobia isn't a good reason to not engage in a much larger discourse about privacy, freedom, and technology. we haven't lost the plot but have a lot more to do.
Is that the hackers Congress paralelni polis without paralelni polis?
By what you wrote, seems similar
I've been debating doing that again.
Bitcoin is not private, Monero is, you need an upgrade.
Great job 👏🧡🫵🏽
🤙🏻
How many attendees are there?
More like Monero. You can bet that more people at these conferences are into Monero over Bitcoin.
I'm at a point where I'd much rather go on a non-bitcoin podcast to talk to people outside the community for this reason
Monero talks privacy, Bitcoin proves resilience💪...... One secures a niche, the other secures the future of money. ⚡🧡🧡
Bitcoin is the foundation..... Open, unstoppable nd with the network effect Monero can only dream of. ⚡🧡..
Privacy without adoption is jst a hobby. Bitcoin’s scale, security nd network effects make it the base layer..... Privacy tools can be built on top. Monero’s upgrade cant replace Bitcoin’s foundation.
Monero may hide trxs, bt Bitcoin exposes the broken fiat system. Scale, security nd unstoppable adoption matter more than a niche feature. 🤝🤝
In a situation like this a single voice can be better than many voices. Thanks for representing
Careful, this name badge reads awfully close to “Bitcoin Cash”
Ironic
Running akkoma now.
Keep educating, slowly you are assembling a team of Nostriches and eventually things will change.
Cypherpunk spaces are still buzzing wth real builders, visionaries nd dreamers.... but Bitcoiners nd Nostr users barely show up to the party. If freedom tech is the mission, we need to stop isolating ourselves nd step into the wider conversation. Building silos wont protect privacy or win rights back—collaboration will. It’s time for Bitcoin nd Nostr to show up where the future is being built.🧡🧡🙌🙌🙌
Are you saying my LN address isn’t working? Should be…
“Warning
cannot complete the payment. user not found on destination server”
I’ve seen this error message before. What’s causing this
@Alby?
Thanks for the heads up brotha mang! Not sure what’s up. But rest assured: bitcoin only, self custody, node runner. My node is up, but I can’t zap from my phoenix wallet either, so, 🤷♂️ I’ll sort it out when I have time to look into it.
That looks like an error in the app where the payment is made. We can check your side though if you contact us via support.getalby.com.
Should be fixed. Test?
I probably would want to go to these conferences
Thats cool and right on nice take thanks for your insight. I just go to Bitcoin conferences definitely feels corpo heavy now days. 2022 was it for me with the sound money fest and Logic on stage I knew it was inevitable at that point. Was a fun time but definitely the turning point for the conference. 😆
Great. You can receive zaps now.
No that was NVKs old instance. Akk.sovbit.host
Tried to zap you back and got an error. 🤷♂️ check yours too?
