The internet made us more connectedāand less free.
Our lives moved online.
Our freedom didnāt.
At Bitcoin Parkās Imagine IF, nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgeyqy52 argued that the only way to fix it is to make freedom profitable.
Because open protocols donāt scale on donations. They scale on alignment.
https://blossom.primal.net/4f41b70c509c6212f779f996f059cad21b2b8831848c7222b4fc439482563aeb.mp4
š«” incentive alignment is key. We are building zapwalled content tools for nostr at fanfares.io . Not only can creators set the price in sats to decrypt their nostr-based content, but they can set a % that referrers can earn by sharing that content. Other npubs become a referrer only after they buy the content.
When fans can share in the creator's success, they become word-of-mouth marketers and protectors of the creator's digital property. Incentives can unleash a bitcoin-powered digital content economy with innumerable side effects like defeating AI theft, defeating mass surveillance, and making bitcoin the only accepted medium of exchange for an infinite number of yet-to-be created digital goods.
We gave nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcprfmhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5hszxthwden5te0wpex2mtfw4kjuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcuauf96 and nostr:nprofile1qqs9mus73mq3ug08kug2cltvj3p8gpawd85n5l70p59rach6cn7usjcpp4mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7tcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctclflw26 early access to login via extension and try it out if you're interested!
VERY important point.
This is why third party service providers for personalized trust metrics will need a good monetization model.
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Freedom can be profitable, just never monetarily as rent seeking value extractive models. These models thrive on control, locking people in, capturing attention, and monetizing dependency. Theyāre exploiting incentives and stealing freedom from us.
Freedom builds systems that empower, release control, and donāt exploit. Its profit comes in the form of less money, but with virtue.
Think of it like playing Monopoly with someone who steals money from the bank every turn. You canāt compete with that. They acquire the most, but theyāve broken the game. The solution isnāt to cheat back, itās to refuse to play with corrupt players. Delete your gmail. Get off X. Boycott Amazon. Use Bitcoin.
When business leaders see freedom not as a liability, but as the highest form of profit the rules of the game change. Making freedom profitable is choosing purpose and virtue over number go up. Be like nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgcwaehxw309ac8yetdd96k6tnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqs87rv0 .
You need to work on your posture, nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgewaehxw309aek2mnyd96zumn0wdnxcctjv5hxxmmdqyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsz3yzjv
Yeah yeah, I sound like yer mom...
This is the way forward, our ideals must align with our primal instincts, then we can succeed
Love this perspective,freedom needs to be profitable to actually scale š
If you are lamenting your life moving online, maybe donāt move your money online tooā¦
"The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them." - Hal Finney
But the reason computers control people instead of free them, is corporate capture.
Windows has investors to answer to
But Linux offers freedom only
X, Facebook, Instagram etc etc all have ad space for sale and users to manipulate for profitability
But nostr just relays the note and signal or a similar messager just let's you message the person.
Money is already online. Visa and Mastercard drive up prices by squeezing merchants and often deny services to NSFW content creators just as an example.
But Bitcoin just does what the user says to do.
The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them. You just have to choose it.
Dude complaining about your life being too digital and then shilling bitcoin in the same presentation is retarded
It sounds like you misunderstood the message
Something about giving this dude money because it will make me free. American marketing 101: claim there is a problem and then promise that giving america your money is the solution. Russia and China use the same tactics routinely
Hah I like where your instincts are at. You definitely got the "corporate capture bad" bad part down.
GPLv3 licensed software has a long history though. It keeps vender lock in from being possible and has its roots in hobby developers who would call themselves hackers in their day. That's why in the video all they can talk about is software support.
You get all the freedom without paying any money in this case specifically.
I still think american salesmanship is the more accurate label
Peculiar to explain this to United Plantations influencers: in proper #English, "freedom" just means the ability to take some action - regardless of consequences.
Even in the most #Orwellian circumstances, everyone has "freedom" to disobey and be punished.
What you mean is "liberty" - ability to take without gangsterment permission actions that don't harm others.
That's why a symbol of your gangsterment is not called "The Statue of Freedom".
Since you're an #influencer, it's useful to use proper words, especially if usually scrambled with " like", "you know" and useless expletives.
On the subject itself, liberty shall decrease as it has - regardless of profitability - as long as the refrain "Pay your taxes, freaks!" remains.šÆ
#Taxes are what enables and makes decreasing #liberty profitable!š”
Iāve also been thinking about this recently. Our lives are in the process of moving online (ie ready player one style) and this is why governments are really pushing for digital IDs and CBDC/stablecoins. This becomes your āhome addressā and your ātaxable incomeā online. Governments really need these to track and tax you. Hence the strong push for both these (digital IDs and CBDCs now).
Freedom is profitable by default, problem is that we donāt live in a free society imho.
more open-source, less companies
"The" answer doesn't exist for practically anything above passive infrastructure.
We can barely tell the timeš
"Yeah, that replace(tzinfo) trick is sneaky because it assumes the naive time is already in local without shifting, but if anything else (like SQLite's ISO parse or a later astimezone) treats it as UTC first, boom, extra hour. Storing in UTC keeps it clean: parse to local aware, convert once to UTC for the DB, then convert back only when showing.I tweaked your line to this for the parse: local_aware = naive_local.replace(tzinfo=LOCAL_TZ); utc_for_db = local_aware.astimezone(ZoneInfo('UTC')). And for retrieval, just astimezone back to LOCAL_TZ. Tested it with Berlin on that Oct 15 dateā'6PM' goes in as 16:00 UTC, comes out 6PM CEST, spot on. If your input parsing's got extras (like dateutil), paste that bit and I'll adjust."
