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"Building technology for the sovereign individual." ✊

Legality does not determine morality because law is downstream of power. Ideally, the two align, but in a fiat society like ours, they do not.

A USSR?

I don't understand all this hate against the SBR, especially if you're American. Do you care about the United States? Do you care about your neighbors? Every organization is incentivized to own Bitcoin, including governments. Would you rather that much worse governments get Bitcoin?

Your ideal of "only ideologically pure people should own Bitcoin" was never going to be the case and if you think that, you have authoritarian tendencies and do not understand what decentralization means.

I don't want them buying shitcoins with tax money

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INTERNET BROWSER?

Here’s the thing about the bitcoin-Trump-govt-takeover doomers…

First, Trump doesn’t care about bitcoin or crypto that much. The argument always seems to be some big conspiracy to make a CBDC and use the bitcoin rocket to expand their reach and dominate all the KYC paper bitcoin and trap everyone in it, etc etc.

But it’s only us who put bitcoin at the center of our “plans.” They are “playing with it” because it’s this tiny side project that has been making money. Thats it. Trump is interested because there are voters he can appeal to. There is SO much honesty in the “and whatever else you are playing with” comment. He doesn’t care about any of this, and neither do the overwhelming majority of them.

It’s a bunch of opportunists that see growing numbers and so they buy an exchange, they try to dominate this and that market, etc. it’s nothing new.

Look at the stupid shitcoins they keep issuing. You think these are brilliantly laid plans? They could barely sell anything of their latest scam.

And of course when considering the exploiters of the old system, they will have more capital to dominate the new, but this doesn’t change in any way the fundamental incentive shift that occurs within the Bitcoin model.

Fiat has a corruption loophole, Bitcoin plugs that loophole.

Quit declaring failure before things even get off the ground. And quit framing Bitcoin’s importance through OUR lens instead of theirs. They don’t have that.

This is where “stay humble” shows up in practice, imo. We aren’t the most important thing in their world. We are winning and just need to put our head down and build solutions to TODAY’s problems, not throw our hands up in surrender or put all our concern in some elaborate, long term “probably going to happen” master plan.

Thats just my 2 sats

If you’re a man who’s struggling with low self esteem let me tell you going to therapy isn’t going to help.

The only way to fix it is to do things worthy of esteem.

We aren’t women.

Talking about our problems isn’t the solution.

Go do things in the world.

You will feel better about yourself.

I'm working on a new project to help spread #bitcoin to more people!

You can help by answering this question: What is a non-bitcoin cause you care about?

Nostrica was the most incredible experience of my life.

The beauty of jungles of Costa Rica, and the intrigue of a budding new protocol, created the perfect conference. I will always hold the experience close to my heart forever. nostr:note1u8eyr3kxj8tnmdg5779e6wcxfjsfw4euey3h67ee2r7f0dtty0hqctk529

What is life?

•Dostoevsky : This is hell.

•Socrates: This is a test.

•Aristotle: It's the mind.

•Nietzsche: This is power.

•Freud: It is death.

•Marco: That's the idea.

•Picasso: This is art.

•Gandhi: This is love.

•Schopenhauer: This is suffering.

•Bertrand Russell: It's competition.

•Steve Jobs: That's Faith.

•Einstein: This is knowledge.

•Stephen Hopkins: That's hope.

•Kafka: These are the beginnings.

You can add in yours...

What is Life??

After two years full-time here on #Nostr, I'm going to say it again...

It's not a good sign that one can still reasonably measure and predict user activity based on the current price of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin goes up = more engagement.

Bitcoin goes down = crickets.

If Nostr engagement remains tied to the valuation of Bitcoin, it's not going to be Nostr; it's going to be #Notstr.

Either we #GrowNostr or we #GoNotstr

It's up to us. The time is now. #GrowNostr

He doesn't know what he's talking about with Japan... We don't vote for the prime minister... They're chosen by the party with a majority. We only get to vote for much lower level people (well, I don't get to vote for anyone because I'm not a Japanese national). Not sure where he's getting these ideas from... Just making stuff up?