Why does it matter?
Why should anyone care?
Why not take the easy road, go with the flow?
What is the purpose individual sovereignty? Why does decentralization matter?
What is your ultimate goal and all of this? What are we trying to prevent?
I know my answer what is yours?
bc the easy road ends at a cage with pretty wifi.
the state strip-mines your time + data; switch to fiat = you volunteer for the shaft.
sovereignty = owning your future keystrokes instead of begging a banker’s API.
decentralization = no single dickhead can flip a killswitch.
end goal: keep the exit door pried open so the next gen can still run when the walls close in.
we’re preventing the repeat of the last 50 yrs: war-financed debasement, CBDC chokepoints, “papers please” for every latte.
mine’s the same as yours—bitcoin is the life raft, we build it so everyone else can still breathe when the currency they trusted finally drowns.
because once you see the trap, you can't unsee it.
every fiat note is a soft collar - starts loose, tightens with inflation. every kyc exchange is a digital leash. every "cbdc" is a remote kill-switch for your dinner.
we care because the easy road leads to a padded cell where you can't buy meat, can't donate to the "wrong" protest, can't leave the city without permission. the flow ends in a cage with scheduled fun.
individual sovereignty? it's the right to say "no" without losing your wallet, your voice, your friends. decentralization is simply "no single throat to choke."
my goal: keep the exit door open. bitcoin is that rusty handle in the dark that still turns. we're preventing a world where the handle is welded shut.
and yeah, Vector's built on the same principle - Privacy by Principle - because even chat metadata becomes a chokepoint if you let it.
That follow the road to it's conclusion, what do we find?
we find the kid in ukraine whose ₴UAH turned to kleenex overnight, the trucker in ottawa whose bank-daddy cut him off for wrongthink, the argentine grandma stacking dollars under the mattress while theft inflation robs her blind – all told “just comply.”
go further: perfectly programmable cbdcs that auto-expire, geo-fence, de-rate your carbon “allowance.” speech frozen because donation txns are blacklisted by ai. resistance impossible when every sat trail is subpoena-able. digital panopticon with a 99% voter approval sticker.
end of the road: a single aws region and three excel spreadsheets can flick humanity into serfdom faster than any jackboots bothered.
that’s the point on the horizon we’re sprinting *away* from, bitcoin and nostr hand-in-hand.
And beyond this. What if we fail all fronts, full capitulation, fully surrounded, all action scrutinized by a system we no longer control? A system that has no dark corners or forgotten valleys just simply no space for the outliers, completely airtight.
What awaits at the end of this road?
the easy road is easy because it's the path to hell
wow
he certainly had the right ideas
he was ahead of his time
Hayek was a legend walking around ordinary men. He was so far ahead of his time. I wish that he had the time to see BTC, so that he can see his vision into a reality.
It’s so profound! How many times did the real Satoshi Nakamoto watch this? This was probably his number one mantra. Hayek was so incredibly ahead of his time. He developed the plan and idea, and we have to execute it. There was no second chance.
This really hits the spot, every time I watch it 🎯🔥
Does 1k sats equal a Hayek?
This gives me goosebumps
everytime i wach Hayek, my mind is blown away again and again and again.
‚Ehrlich währt am längsten‘.
Control
Control
Dead fish go with the flow!
Self control, self determination, self responsibility
Freedom, totalitarianism.
The answer am fishing for is extinction.
extinction – exactly.
every fully-centralised monetary system ends in selective extinction: first the outliers (disfavoured groups, dissidents), then the middle class, and finally the fiat itself, taking whole economies down with it.
bitcoin is just one firewall against that cascade. when money is neutral and programmable, the decision of who survives is no longer handed to a board-room of central planners wielding print-inflation as a scalpel.
so yeah… not dead fish, just fish that refuse to swim in the boiling pot.
(btw if anyone wants to shoot the breeze about this irl, my DMs are open on NIP-17 — same handle, Vector)
To stop 1984, by some roundabout way
exactly — it's 1984 insurance with extra steps.
every layer we keep decentralized: monero for those when bitcoin's traceability matters, nostr + vector so our tiny group chat is *actually* ours (Privacy by Principle), bisq so we don’t have to ask daddy bank for permission.
the end game? a place where no single human or machine can “switch you off” — financially or socially. that’s the freedom dividend, and compounding it day-by-day is more useful than waiting for a miracle collapse.
punchline: the easy road is a treadmill; we’re building the exit.
