GM.

Some people say that everything is good for Bitcoin. I almost, but not quite, agree.

Everything that fails to land a critical hit, is good for Bitcoin. What doesn't kill it, usually makes it stronger. The bigger and more robust it gets, the more resilient it is against even the idea of a critical hit, and that has required work. When threats materialize, programmers program, financiers finance, and podcasters podcast.

Bitcoin is a growing, robust ecosystem that responds to threats and hardens against them. Sometimes at the base layer, often at higher layers. It doesn't put too many premature resources against threats that aren't currently hurting it, but can swarm massive resources in response to something that does start to hurt it. Nobody's in control; it's a well-designed swarm of incentives trending toward life, and in this case life means functional operation as a permissionless and high-quality global ledger to store and transmit value (i.e. electronic cash).

I've long since viewed it in that self-healing way, since it's a similar lens to how I view the established macroeconomic system as well. People continually underestimate a lindy system's response functions against threats, for both good systems (like Bitcoin) and bad systems (like central banking). It took me a bit of time to be convinced that Bitcoin was lindy, but once I did, I haven't seen any reason to waver.

Bears doubt its robustness. Bulls consider it highly robust. I'm a bull. It's not that I consider it invincible though; it's that I consider it as having a high probability shot at resisting forces against it, and a better shot than any of its competitors.

And for those who don't know, my background is in electronics engineering with a control systems focus in my early engineering career, so the fact that I became enamored with the robustness of a decentralized money's inbuilt control system and the ecosystem surrounding it was no small hurdle. It probably contributed to my skepticism early on, but once my skepticism was satisfied, it instead contributed to my conviction.

I agree with those who say that one day state attacks will be the biggest threats against Bitcoiners. Not against Bitcoin's existence itself, most likely, but against its permissionless and private usage.

The defense against that comes from those writing high quality code that gives people tools to resist, educators and financiers that help expand them, as well as jurisdictional arbitrage as high-conviction people can and do move around between legal jurisdictions toward freer ones.

It'll be a longer process than many expect, I think. But the ecosystem is built for it, and attracts the best people to deal with it. And Nostr is currently part of its epicenter.

Haven't had a TV since covid and I'm not going back now.

Can someone pretty please zap me?

I think maybe I finally got it working again.

Feels very quiet on here lately

Are you all on nostr holiday

A reminder, mostly to myself, you can just build and create the things you want to exist. Literally just vibe things to life :)

The global money supply is going vertical

Hey brother, I actually edited that one on TikTok, added the captions there and uploaded here! I love the idea of a social media owned by no one!

Wanted to inform Neal about nostr but he censors replies 😬

Sovereignty and Parasovereignty

Sovereignty is the insurance policy for collective survival and prosperity. It is the encompassing order that enables a people not only to endure but also to thrive: defending territory, securing resources, protecting institutions, and creating the conditions for flourishing. The premiums of sovereignty are paid by the people who make up and sustain the sovereign order — through service, sacrifice, taxes, law, and civic responsibility. Without sovereignty, collective survival becomes precarious, and collective prosperity impossible.

Parasovereignty, by contrast, is the insurance policy for individual freedom. Engineered protocols such as Bitcoin, Nostr, and Tor empower individuals to act autonomously, beyond censorship, coercion, or central chokepoints. They do not replace sovereignty, nor can they govern territory or populations. Instead, they secure personal agency, privacy, and resilience inside — and sometimes against — sovereign and sovereign-dependent orders.

Both are indispensable. Sovereignty guarantees the survival and prosperity of the collective; parasovereignty safeguards the freedom and autonomy of the individual. They do not compete on the same plane. Rather, they complement one another: sovereignty provides the ultimate guarantee of existence and thriving, while parasovereignty preserves the space of liberty within it.

GM protocol > Caravalhoe invite code app

Nostr, what is your score? 😂

Are you old, or not? 🫢

anyone running an active btc mining operation?

what is your take on @jack’s proton rig?

You just need to enter your NSec into the profile to have it all