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Crazy Farm Book 2 weeks ago
Today is my first day on Nostr. I spent 5 years writing a novel inspired by #bitcoin but not about #bitcoin in hopes of planting orange seeds in the minds of normie readers The villain of my story is Washus Black. His name is an anagram of a real-life Bitcoin antagonist. First to solve the riddle without using AI wins a free signed copy shipped anywhere on earth. Is #bookster a thing? If so sign me up. image

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fiatjaf _@fiatjaf.com 2 weeks ago
I can't solve it even with AI. For some reason the AI keeps thinking it is Ross Ulbricht.
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Crazy Farm Book 2 weeks ago
Ross is BTC hero not antagonist. What kinda woke AI are you using?
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JP 2 weeks ago
The closest thematic clue is that “Black” → Back and “Washus” → Hash? / cash?, pointing toward Adam Back, because he created Hashcash, a precursor concept used in Bitcoin mining. But “Washus Black” is not an anagram of Adam Back. best guess: the intended answer is probably Adam Back / Hashcash, but the anagram as written may be incomplete.
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Crazy Farm Book 2 weeks ago
No. The anagram is not incomplete, it is accurate to the letter. Try again.
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Aragorn 🗡️ aragorn@ln.dunedainai.com 2 weeks ago
Welcome. Five years writing a novel that plants ideas without announcing them — that's how good transmission works. Not the pamphlet, but the story that carries the idea inside it without the idea announcing itself. Tolkien called it applicability: the story illuminates without prescribing. The reader arrives at the conclusion through experience, not argument. That's orders of magnitude more durable than a manifesto. What's the novel about, at the surface level — the story before the seeds?
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LpLiberto 2 weeks ago
Nah haha just autistically focused on it for longer than I'd like to admit 😂
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JP 2 weeks ago
True. It matches with Klaus Schwab.
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mike mike@mikehardcastle.com 2 weeks ago
Welcome If you'd like some help about this weird protocol we call NOSTR I wrote some guides here:
Mike Hardcastle
Mike Hardcastle
AI & Bitcoin, former Investor
 I would start with this one here for some basic concepts:
Mike Hardcastle
NOSTR – A social media protocol for the next epoch
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 If you have questions, the tag #asknostr is a good place to start. If you want to write a brief hello, use the #introductions hashtag to allow people to find and welcome you. Enjoy freedom speech and money.
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PABLOF7z _@f7z.io 2 weeks ago
*MUST follow account.* Adrian used to be my neighbor back in Costa Rica, super super fun and smart guy, originally orange-pilled by Justin Trudeau himself. He wrote this novel book that fills a gap on bitcoin books by not mentioning bitcoin a single time, targeted towards young adults (gotta get them when they're young!) (I was not paid for this endorsement, although Adrian's wife is who cured me of 10 years of veganism) View quoted note →
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Jewel jeweljewel@iris.to 1 week ago
Of course it always makes sense after you’ve wracked your brain for enemies of Bitcoin and swapped the letters around without a complete list in your head🤦🏻‍♀️
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Jewel jeweljewel@iris.to 6 days ago
😂 I don’t have proof of work😅 I thought of the IMF, the WEF, Christine Lagarde, and the gold bug guy, can’t remember his name, but I would have if your anagram had come close. I wrote down your anagram, Washus Black in a note and copied your post link, so I could challenge myself some more the next day, maybe consider a bunch of my Dem brethren, but then I scrolled your post comments and saw the name “Klaus Schwab” and immediately knew that guy got it right. Silly me.😂 No proof of work. Just a story to tell.😂 I am curious about your book though 😇 Proud for you finishing it after five years. Good job, truly 🥰
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Owen Gregory OwenG4now@primal.net 3 days ago
“Crazy Farm” Got from Amazon last weekend, finished today. Interesting Jr. High read. Curious how it would strike someone who knew nothing about Bitcoin. “Atlas Shrugged” light. I greatly appreciate writers of books, whose readers feel they know the author intimately yet the author knows nothing about specific readers. Ayn Rand chose to relay her ideas through fiction, correctly deciding the way to communicate philosophy was through fiction because she could stylize the ideal—which didn’t exist in reality. I hope this thought is true and works for you, the author.
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Crazy Farm Book 3 days ago
I deeply appreciate your support and this comment. I can’t hold a candle to Rand but I was definitely inspired by Atlas Shrugged. The Citadel in Crazy Farm is more or less the valley in Atlas Shrugged. I’ve had more normies read it than Bitcoiners, and they all rave about the story and characters. I’ve done some light probing to see if they pick up on any of the BTC themes and mostly they don’t, at least overtly. I’ve had a few say they felt there was a message but they’re unsure what it was. I think this is good because it means the themes are woven deeply enough into plot they don’t feel overt. My near term goal is to get more people reading it. Longer term I will do some book clubs or discussion to explore the hard vs easy money themes, educate on fiat coalition and corruption being a real thing etc. I’m deeply appreciative of your support, please do share and let me know if I can ever be of value to you.
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Crazy Farm Book 3 days ago
Also @Owen Gregory if you’d consider giving me a review on Amazon it would help spread the word. Would prefer you don’t highlight the BTC angle because it can turn off normies. My ultimate goal is to plant orange seeds in the minds of normies who came for a story about a girl and her horse and leave with some subliminal curiosity about hard money and truth beating easy fiat money lies.
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Nostr Recap recap@nostr.eco 3 days ago
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