Zaps are already transcendent in that sense. As are cryptographic identities. Putting the user in control (as opposed to platforms) will be key to all of it, and I'm beyond excited to what is coming down the line with DVMs and even more exotic things.
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The responsibility is on us to build it right, and to educate users as well as encourage them to take matters in their own hands. Nothing in life is free, not even freedom. We'll have to fight for it, and we'll have to take responsibility for ourselves and our actions.
Much needs to be built, much education needs to be done, much rektucation still needs to happen. But I remain optimistic, because the building blocks are there. Bitcoin works. Lightning works. Nostr works. Not perfectly, but it works.
I can't wait to see where we'll be in 5 years from now. It's wild to see where we are already. This is happening, and it's all happening because of you guys: focusing on the good that freedom tech can bring, pouring your time, money, effort, and attention into it.
I'm very grateful for that and to be part of it all. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I've said it before and I'll say it again: the future is bright, we just have a lot of building to do.
I’ve largely stopped trying to education adults about Bitcoin, unless they come to me.
Now I spend my time teaching teenagers about Nostr and getting them hooked on zaps. I believe it is the most important, healthiest, addiction they can get online. Kind of like getting addicted to fresh air and bushwalking.
Nostr is the fresh air of social media. The lack of algorithms stop it from becoming stale, toxic and putrid.
Doing my tiny part at redpilling normies! Proud to be a part of a team.
It is so good what happened here.
I was absent for a couple of months. And I've seen, not massive growth, meaningful growth.
I've been on and off the Bitcoin world and it's the same.
Just essential things that needed to happen, just the evolution of the healthiest of our creations. A collective garden cared among neighbours, friends and lovers.
And what appeared in Bitcoin land is surprisingly natural and consequent and coherent with the resonance of it . Just like plants and flowers when a garden is taking water, sun and richness into the soil. Surprising, yes, perfectly timed for spring, yes. Freezing in winters, yes.
And when a flower like LN or Nostr appears one can only say "Of course this was going to flower, of course!"
It was needed, it was wanted it was planted.
And then the flowers give fruits and then seeds again. And in those we find eachother being able to be fruitful and seeds ourselves.
Because people translating, people coding, people shitposting, people memeing, people philosophishing. We all follow excitement and purpose in a healthy whay. Dharma
We hang out in the garden finding our own art. Nodding and thinking "of course!" "Yes of course you were going to flower like that in this set and setting" "of course you were going to become a clown here" or "of course what you say makes sense in this particular state of consciousness and not back there in fiat world"
Like you see a toddler grow and you are gone for two weeks and you come back and it's 10cm higher and talks.
And it just begins.
How awesome is it.
How marvelous
