This Hal Finney message from 1992 on the Cypherpunks Mailing List applies to both #Bitcoin and #Nostr
“It seemed so obvious to me. Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization...
The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them. Unlike the world of today, where people are more or less at the mercy of credit agencies, large corporations, and governments.
Naturally, in today's society, with power allocated so disproportionately, such ideas are a threat to large organizations. Balancing power would mean a net loss of power for them...
It's going to have to be a grass-roots activity, one in which individuals first learn of how much power they can have, and then demand it.”