Bitcoin And nostr Forces The Rare

Most earth minerals are rare and so are "good" ideas. For a mineral to be rare at least one of 4 conditions must be met:

1) An eccentric composition

2) Selective formation conditions

3) A fleeting lifespan

4) A dangerous environment

Bitcoin and nostr were not only birthed by two of these four conditions, they are instantiating their birth conditions upon other things which, in turn, will cause the creation of similar ideas. It's a cascade effect and we are watching the very first domino drop.

Bitcoin had the weird composition of depending on a rag-tag group of developers, fanatic users, a nodal structure, and an insatiable capacity to ingest energy from any source capable of producing electron flow. nostr, while not energy hungry (but does posses an inestimable hunger for information), at least shares the first three conditions with bitcoin.

nostr was birthed, and I'm reaching here because I do not know if this is true, as a reaction to increasing censorship on legacy social media (and other) platforms. Censorship, by definition is violence (See "Undue Alteration") and that is a very dangerous environment indeed. Bitcoin was birthed under circumstances even more brutal and insidious: a continuous, unrelenting, and worsening global financial environment brought about by the two most violent entities in existence; Central Banks and Governments.

What may be missed is just how quickly and tightly the elements of nostr and Bitcoin bonded to form a "molecule" that is as unstoppable as it is uncensorable.

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