At least for the moment, which will probably change, my article is at the top of the homepage of Bitcoin magazine on Donald Trumps Inauguration Day 😂

LFG, more people are starting to see the power of Nostr

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Coolest Bitcoin logo in the lot:

If #bitcoin stays decentralized and secure, it is imposing the first global free market the world has ever seen.

Productivity gains flow to broadly to society in free markets through deflation.

Everyone gets richer every year and competition to provide value increases driving a cycle of unprecedented prosperity.

But, if you are pricing #Bitcoin in USD, you are still in the system of extraction and centralization which must centralize faster through the extraction of the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices.

The two systems are incompatible!!

And…It is a confusing topic because we have no reference for what a global free market looks like……so many people will get rug pulled (eventually) by not choosing self custody and running nodes. Instead trusting institutions and a paper derivative of their #bitcoin.

Why: because it will appear they are getting wealthy (in USD) Protecting the decentralization and security by running nodes and being constantly vigilant for new attack vectors will seem like a stretch! For most people pressing the easy button in an ETF or other centralized entity will seem like the right thing to do which ensures faster centralizing.

That centralized system of extraction MUST eventually attack Bitcoin or fail.

This may be a long time out. Ie - if I was on the other side of the fight - I would make my system as easy to integrate to bitcoin as possible and use the natural biases of humans against them. Ease of use, trust in institutions, time, etc so they didn’t “need” to worry about self custody and understanding how the protocol works.

Those on building on #Nostr, Bitcoin, Lightning, Ecash and spending their time contributing on this open protocol and teaching others are on the front edge of the greatest change the world has ever seen. From extraction to cooperation.

Stay vigilant, stay focused, run a node, and tune out the madness of the system of extraction trying to drag you back into its centralized structure.

For the opportunity to exist, It had to be this way!

We are so early.

if you’re not laughing hysterically every single day of 2025 you may have missed the plot

How many Tiktok people found a nostr app past few days?

1, 10, 100, 1000? nostr:note1d0mdhyauufcmcjchnf7denw0mtfm9a683trudp2rdjv8t7ecfwussxhm4n

“Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.”

-Eric Hughes-

On Nostr you are selectively revealing yourself to the world on your terms, not theirs.

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The entire point of Bitcoin is to transmit money, everyone needs to stop making idiots out of themselves by denying we are doing this.

If the government ends up ruling "Yes, you need a license to run a Bitcoin node or hold Bitcoin keys", then you have dug your own grave by pretending they have the authority to control this in the first place.

Grow some fucking balls and be proud of transmitting money. Stop begging the government to reevaluate their regulation that denies you this basic human right.

— Kruw

Good morning ☀️

I am finishing a video about closing crypto scams.

I am so excited to share it with you all :)

My plan is to NOT GET SUED

Currently working on a series of videos with the Blockstream team. Anything that you guys would like to know about the new Jade Plus!? 👀

#AskNostr

Dear Cyberians,

We are working hard, with heavy constraints and restrictions, to improve the distribution of hash rate among our Siberian sites.

Our global hash rate delivery performance got a little better today. Right now, we're hitting 96%.

We hope to return to 100% when we deploy more in the US by the end of January . . . maybe earlier!

Thank you!

Why does it seem like F2Pool is avoiding mining consolidation transactions?

A lot of their mined blocks lately are just some transaction, leaving more than half the blocks empty?

F2Pool censoring UTXO consolidation transaction? Why?

#asknostr