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So, the tools for freedom are in place: freedom of speech (Nostr); SoV, MoE, UoA (Bitcoin); global trade (Nostr and Lightning). Now what. Let’s do something about it. This is it, chance of a lifetime. I hear a lot about: “we need escrow”, “we need a third party to adjudicate trust”…No. let’s go. This is what it’s all about. Changing from a society where there’s only one value, greed…

We had some great discussions around trust in that context. People longing for a third party to adjudicate disputes between peer to peer monetary settlements for larger transactions. How should that work?

You made my day! I love your forward thinking about how Bitcoin will change the world for good!

Same here. Enough good discussion to keep busy here :) somehow I lost a lot of followers, including Jeff Booth @jeffbooth who had originally followed me when the community was still small on Nostr. I guess the Twitter networks carry over to here.

IMHO- it’s very fiat thinking to project one’s own responsibility to someone else in the guise of safety. It leads to a race to the bottom, over regulation and surveillance.

Lost a lot of followers including Jeff Booth 😟#[0]

Something I said probably. Feedback appreciated.

Why. It’s missing relays. Forget Twitter.

I meant, don’t follow your train of thought. I was curious about your reference to Zimmermann, upon which you replied for me to grow up ….

Don’t follow you, probably too stupid, but the question was serious.

Funny, you get a like for it. Not quite a ZAP ;)

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People and evil institutions desperate to infiltrate Bitcoin and anything that could grow into a threat will throw money at projects both to try to control their development, curry favor with “The Community” and insert their tentacles to monitor, distort, distract and execute their wicked agenda.

Nostr is now on the list of “Threat Apps” and so is to be cursed with a poison “donation” in an attempt to gain some sort of control and influence over its development. The control will appear at first as private appeals for moderation, back doors, not allowing it to be used in enemy countries and other insidious things. If a Foundation is ever formed, the corruptors will want a seat on the board; and why shouldn’t they ask for it? They paid for it didn’t they?

Of course any developer who has sense will be able to take money that is given to zer and refuse corruption of any kind. Real people like that cannot be corruptied and are unlikely to be corrupted if they’re working on “decentralized, censorship-resistant, open-source, Lightning-native protocol allowing for an unstoppable global social network”. I trust that this is the case.

The whole point of this is that infiltrators who are eager to distort, corrupt and destroy are out there. You know the sort; they analogise that Bitcoin “is a weapon” that it is an asset that needs regulation, and rules of the road drafted by geriatric numbskulls and every other nasty, reprehensible anti-American thing. And “Ordinals”.

All it takes however is a real man, like Phillip Zimmerman (the author of PGP) to release something that changes the world forever in a way that is irrevocable. Going forward, all the stomach churning whining see aye ay agents can do is keep trying to infiltrate, as on all fronts Bitcoin and privacy tools spread like wildfire.

The multipolar world is coming where these fantastically stupid and unethical people have literally no place. The best they can come up with is to give money to their enemies. How creative! It won’t work, numbskulls; the problem is too big as is the number of people working on the solution in parallel and in concert. Your world is ending, and there is nothing you can do about it but to join in and be free on the new terms like everyone else.

Interesting…why the specific reference to Zimmermann in the middle?

Well, we have Bitcoin and we Nostr. How about the forest for the trees? Let’s focus on the big picture. You have the platform.

There’s enough discourse on Nostr now that I have completely moved off Twitter. Thank you for supporting my ADD :)

@jack, maybe time to post something profound rather than platitudes snd 🤙? You have a great Follower ship.