The journey is interesting but the conclusion is spot on. What if you don’t tell the internet about what you are doing? I understand physical life is important but if we use a monetary construct every day in this physical world that is terrible we need to talk about it both physically and online. The issue in the physical world is, people feel like there is no alternative. I recently bought a little drum for my 9 month old son via P2P marketplace. A kid and mom opened the door and I asked “how would you like to be paid, in bitcoin or in worthless euros” and the mom was looking at me like I was a scammer and said “we’ll take the real physical euros”. I handed over 2 10 euro bills and asked the kid “do you trust me? And she looked at me and said yes. I said, you shouldn’t. How do you know these bills are real?” She looked at them in the light and could see the watermark, felt the paper and said “they are real” and ran away with the money. I nodded the mom and she smiled uncomfortably.

How do we spread the word there is a better system?

Today every newspaper in the Netherlands and the majority of news outlets are recycling the US energy agency story about the consumption of bitcoin is as much as Greece or Australia. How can we tackle the constant stream of misinformation that the majority of people consume?

You are now on Nostr only and I miss your input on Twitter. How do you increase your reach to people? I think you create valuable content, but it should have maximum reach. The mom and kid should be handed the correct information and truth, how will we ever reach them?

The Carnival of Venice is occurring now.

Venetian masks are sometimes used to symbolize decadence. But historically, there was a lot more to them than that.

Centuries ago, Venice was a highly stratified society, meaning big gaps between the wealthy nobles and the commoners, and between men and women. But the Venetian carnival, and any parties where the masks were worn, were opportunities for the nobles and commoners to mingle as equals without knowing or caring someone's social station.

The masks removed identity, and along with it, removed many consequences of interaction. People could speak their mind and interact more thoroughly without the heavy restrictions of the social stratification. And they could be critical of the current social structure without it necessarily being tied back to their identity. If society is open, then perhaps anonymity is rarely needed. But if society is closed or repressive, then anonymity is a tool to change minds while minimizing the consequences to the individual.

And Venetian masks were all different and beautiful, coming in all manner of styles and colors. The wearer could express themselves without revealing themselves, similar to how we might think of a social media avatar today, but in the real world.

Authoritarian/fascist governments on multiple occasions banned the carnival and criminalized the wearing of the masks, because anonymity and social equality were perceived as threatening to them. But as those governments fell, the carnival and tradition returned.

Anyway, good morning Nostr.

Hold on! And note that Hayek's ‘Denationalisation of Money’ was an idea that private money is better than public money because private issuers:

1) will compete with each other on the open market; and

2) will be incentivised to maintain and protect the value of their private money.

It is sort of funny because it looks like Hayek in fact proposed something that we now call crypto shitcoins.

I tend to forgive him since he could not assume that it would possible to invent (or discover if you like) money which is absolutely scarce.

Hold on! And note that Hayek's ‘Denationalisation of Money’ was an idea that private money is better than public money because private issuers:

1) will compete with each other on the open market; and

2) will be incentivised to maintain and protect the value of their private money.

It is sort of funny because it looks like Hayek in fact proposed something that we now call crypto shitcoins.

I tend to forgive him since he could not assume that it would possible to invent (or discover if you like) money which is absolutely scarce.

everything in its right place

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Who would’ve thought other chains are also building their own stuff 😂

Discovering Malcolm X has been a revelation!

For too long, I confused him with other civil rights leaders like MLk & other. He's truly a titan. Excited to dive into his autobiography.

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