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Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten over my bitcoin podcast addiction. Lately, I now how an ancient history addiction: “Tides of History” great podcast.

But… the point. It’s interesting that archeologists describe economic activity in ancient times as “craft production”. They also describe how societies grow to gain “greater complexity” in their crafts and their cultures.

In a way I kind of see Nostr+Bitcoin following something of a similar path. Literally the most popular products in my feed would not be an uncommon line of work, 3000 years ago.

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I hope over time the goods available for sale using bitcoin and discovered and connected using Nostr keeps increasing in complexity, and value. We will break out of the “craft” stage at some point, there will be too much competition.

We will have an Industrial Revolution.

GN

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As a producer of goods, the closer you are to the raw materials, the more direct the value trade. Using Bitcoin really shines when that's the case.

Ceramics is the best example of this. At its core, it is dug up earth that's been formed into a usable shape that's fired for durability. The raw material can be sourced by any person (wild clay) and the production process yields many types of useful items that can be trade with others for value. Since you can obtain the raw material yourself, you don't experience fiat erosion.

As opposed to another craft, let's say, 3d printing. The maker is quite far from the raw materials of not just the item itself but the tools as well. Sure you can make money from the wares you make and sell but it is inescapable, at this point in time, to not have to convert some of those Bitcoin into fiat to maintain equipment and buy new material.

with that said, knitting wool hats, socks and blankets, puts me in kind of the middle. Not quite as direct farming or ceramics, but not as indirect as resin casting. Now if only I could raise some sheep and get my own wool processing facility up and running. a gal can dream 🤩

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I got my geologist friend interested in pottery by telling her “you’re making your own rocks” 😁

While technically true about pottery, most potters rely on commercially available glazes and clays which are made to have specific, reproducible results, based on proprietary recipes from ingredients sourced all over the world. Some of these ingredients may come from only one mine on the planet, and there have recently been several upheavals in the pottery community as these mines close or are no longer willing to sell to ceramic supply companies.

Many artists do still explore wild clay and glaze making, but it doesn’t seem the majority to me. It’s on my list of things to learn and do.

thanks for the insight 🙂

I hope you get a chance to try wild clay and show it off here!

It’s something I’m almost certainly going to have to have my own studio in order to do, since experimenting like this is not really something you do in a community kiln. So it could be a long time in coming… but I’m looking forward to it 😁

I saw a dude fire ceramics in a fire pit on his driveway 😮

Probably raku! I love the metallic looks they get 😍