GM from beautiful Colombia.

With all the chaos and nonsense going on in the world right now, I wanted to share something that I believe is critical as it relates to what is happening on #bitcoin (the first global free market that can’t be cheated) versus a system of corruption (trying to stop that system) Either 1) through willful intent or 2) lack of knowledge.

(*the majority of people fall into the lack of knowledge group)

According to game theory and playoff matrices: even when there are very high rewards and low punishment (they wouldn’t get caught) approximately 10% of people won’t cheat - no matter what!They place a higher internal value on integrity that overrides external rewards. I’ve seen this number as low as 2.5% and as high as 20%.

Why is that important:

Although everyone wants to see themselves as one of the honest, the math says that between 80 - 97.5% of people will cheat depending on the rewards. Now enter money - the ultimate pot of gold with high rewards and low punishment for cheating because people don’t understand it. Most people will cheat - a mirror of the world we see and have seen in Bitcoin since its inception. Need inflation, bad for environment, drug money, doesn’t scale, crypto, meme coins - the list will go on and on because if people can “get rich at someone else’s expense - most will. Those are simply the numbers and always have been.

In fact, in prior periods of history, the honest were at a massive disadvantage because and would often be killed by the cheaters. Because the integrity was so rare, society would often celebrate these people after their deaths as lessons of what we wanted our higher selves to look like.

#bitcoin has changed the equation. Giving those with integrity the power. Why: because 2.5 - 20% of people that won’t cheat is a massive number - especially if many of those people are decentralized and can’t be “found”. Those are the people who eventually run nodes, contribute their time and energy to keeping #bitcoin decentralized and secure, watch for attack vectors, build value on top of this protocol, call out the cheaters, teach and advocate to help others see it. Those people simply can’t be bought, and more are joining every day.

That decentralized and secure protocol bounded by energy is repricing everyone and everything from the other system and it will continue to do so as that system tries to grapple with: the cheaters no longer make the rules.

It will be chaotic, many more will try to cheat (don’t be afraid to slay your heroes) but in the end…..Satoshi unlocked a way to put the best of us into a protocol that was best for all of us.

What a time to be alive.

ALL MAYOR FIAT CURRENCIES ARE COLLAPSING AGAINST #BITCOIN. Once you see it you cannot unsee it.

Nostr always brings a little extra light and happiness into my day

Partly because y’all are amazing, hilarious, brilliant, and inspirational

Partly because even the disagreement and conflict is between people who care deeply enough about this movement to pursue its betterment (as opposed to conflict for conflict’s sake, or for engagement farming).

And partly because this is an inspiring movement and it feels fucking amazing to be a part of something good 💜🫂🫡

#plebchain #grownostr

At some point I decided that being an anonymous hodler wasn't enough.

I feel a responsibility to connect with good people in my community and try to ever so slightly nudge them towards #Freedom.

I feel the responsibility to attempt to build a #Bitcoin community where I live, inspire others to learn about it, and help prepare future generations for what is yet to come.

I feel a responsibility to remind people how awesome #nostr is even though none of them give a shit, or have the slightest idea what private key cryptography is.. yet.

I decided being an anonymous hodler wasn't good enough.

So I planted 140x40-ft garden, with the dream that I could supply nutritious chemical free food to my community. The test garden was an absolute success.

A few months later, and now my wife and I have a business plan written. Yesterday, I decided which seeds to sow.

A few minutes ago, I mulched my shallots and garlic with 3 in of dry leaves because we're supposed to get half a foot of snow tomorrow.

In a few days, we'll be talking to the county extension office about grants available for new farms.

In a few weeks we'll be establishing an LLC.

In a few months I'll be selling heritage and heirloom varieties of common vegetables, flowers , wildcrafted teas, foraged mushrooms, and more to my neighbors... and I'll have a sign that says Bitcoin preferred at the front of my farmstand. And I'll put my face behind it. And my name. And I'll be proud of it.

And that's why I decided to dox myself, and let my identity be more than just "being an anonymous Bitcoiner".

I am helping build the future.

#bitcoin

#proofofwork

#photography

#farmstr

I think you can do it without the voting.

A team gets together who have a product/common good idea. They describe the project and put up a sort of "bounty" for it. Then they choose a trusted oracle/escrow holder.

This project now sits there waiting to be funded by the community (of whatever size, commensurate with the project details).

If milestones fund, the team works on them, the oracle determines whether the work is acceptable or not and either disperses the funds to the workers or refunds it to the community.

No voting necessary. Valuable projects will get funded, things nobody wants won't.

There shouldn't be any other moderation needed other than value via price signal. If this were built on Nostr, the only moderation even _possible_ would be at the relay level, which seems fine to me.

You could have relays acting as aggregation points for projects. The relay could be geo-based for real world projects or community-based for digitally-networked ones.

Of course

laws r on the books already but compromised

We'll build it on ecash. Mints will act as/with escrow

Many Bitcoiners have stopped being anarchists and now only want to benefit from the state apparatus to accumulate more fiat

we're gonna build the roads

Serious question:

Where did democracy go wrong?

#asknostr

This Samoan chief ate fish, meat, coconut , root vegetables and tropical fruit all year round. He never fasted or limited carbohydrates. He never went to the gym and did little physical work.