You can download it from their website for free or buy a printed copy in most bookstores. Cool that you are interested to look into it. Once you’ve read it, let me know what you think!

You raise a compelling point—and decentralized democracy doesn’t necessarily disagree with the value of strong, autonomous individuals. But it does challenge the idea that such individuals exist prior to their social context.

Instead of starting with the individual as an isolated atom, decentralized democracy asks: what actually constitutes an individual? It suggests that autonomy emerges from relationships—especially through one’s relation to property, expression, and influence. These aren’t just things an individual “has”; they’re co-shaped through interaction with others and the world.

In this view, society isn’t built on individuals—it’s built through the relational processes that allow individuality to emerge in the first place.

I recently came across an open-source book project called Plurality that critiques both libertarianism and technocracy—not just in terms of who holds power, but in how they imagine society. Both reduce the world to isolated individuals (atoms) and a collective system (whether centrally planned or market-driven). They mainly differ in who commands authority, not how authority actually emerges.

Plurality proposes something different: decentralized democracy rooted in relationships—between people, communities, and their environments. It suggests governance should emerge from these interactions, not from abstract ideals of either individualism or centralized control.

Interestingly, this relational philosophy aligns more with how Bitcoin actually works: not top-down, not purely individualist, but through a decentralized network of mutual verification, incentives, and evolving consensus.

“Plurality” is defined as “technology for collaboration across social difference”. This contrasts with a common element between Libertarianism and Technocracy: that both consider the world to be made up of atoms (viz. individuals) and a social whole, a view we call “monist atomism”. While they take different positions on how much authority should go to each, they miss the core idea of Plurality, that intersecting diverse social groups and the diverse and collaborative people whose identities are constituted by these intersections are the core fabric of the social world.

Apparently their business model is focussing on building “the digital financial rails of the future”.

I’m struggling to see how they plan to earn back that 6M…

… Bitcoin can as easy adopt new NIST post-quantum key generation standards and integrate everything they could possibly offer.

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/06/19/project-eleven-raises-6-million-to-secure-digital-assets-against-quantum-threats/

Oxford Quantum Circuits’ roadmap 📈 — a quantum take on Moore’s Law?

Classical computing had Moore’s Law doubling transistors every ~2 years.

Now quantum computing has its own trajectory.

Oxford Quantum Circuits is scaling fast—are we approaching the inflection point?

Around 100-200 high-fidelity qubits, we unlock simulation power beyond classical supercomputers—think molecular modeling, optimization, Shor’s algorithm at scale.

The hardware curve is steep.

But the true bottleneck: fault-tolerance + quantum error correction.

Moore’s Law for quantum ≠ just more qubits—it’s about coherent, controllable, and connected qubits.

The computing power of a quantum computer is statistical and therefore allows to grow exponentially with the number of qubits. To that end, we are entering a post-Moore era in which computing hardware economical market optimization is done on computing power and efficiency instead of number of transistors - Koomey’s law this is called.

🧪🔗 #quantumAdvantage #nostr #qubitScaling #mooresLaw #oxfordquantumcircuits

Thanks, sounds like an interesting podcast!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ0s7kCTUW8&t=823s&pp=2AG3BpACAQ%3D%3D

Who is Pico?

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance — a philosopher, theologian, and humanist best known for his work Oration on the Dignity of Man, often called the “Manifesto of the Renaissance.”

Why is Pico important?

• Human dignity & freedom: In a time when most people believed their place in the world was fixed (by God, tradition, or social hierarchy), Pico argued that human beings are unique because they have free will — the ability to shape themselves through reason and choice. He believed that humans are not bound by fate or biology, but are free to ascend toward the divine or fall into corruption based on their own actions.

• Synthesis of knowledge: Pico sought to reconcile diverse philosophies — Christian, Jewish (Kabbalistic), Islamic, Greek (especially Plato and Aristotle) — aiming to show that all wisdom pointed to universal truths. This made him a symbol of intellectual openness and unity.

• The Oration on the Dignity of Man: In this text, Pico writes that God placed man “in the middle of the world,” with no fixed nature — so that humans might shape themselves “into whatever form they shall prefer.” This was radical: it placed agency and moral responsibility squarely on the individual.

In 1486, Pico della Mirandola wrote that humans alone shape their own nature — not by decree, but by choice. This was the Renaissance idea of dignity: that freedom begins within, and flows outward through thought, word, and creation.

Today, the EU’s “Going Dark” initiative seeks to place a key in every lock — to open every private channel of communication “just in case.”

But if every message can be read, every thought traced, what remains of the space where freedom once began?

Can a democracy born of Renaissance ideals survive when its citizens are never truly alone?

#GoingDark #privacy #Encryption #Renaissance #PicoDellaMirandola #freedomtech #bitcoin #freedom

https://mullvad.net/nl/why-privacy-matters/going-dark

https://www.wsj.com/science/physics/microsoft-quantum-computing-physicists-skeptical-d3ec07f0

The concept of a Majorana particle based quantum computer is very cool, however the claims of MS on their accomplishments are dubious based on the data they show.

Take the latest publication, looking for a spectral signature of interference is the most basic aspect - ultimately you would want to be able to control and check the phase information of quantum particle in an individual and time-resolved manner. In a sense, this is what a topological qubit would amount to. Claiming topological qubit without any supporting evidence makes the paper and claims fragile.

MS will have to show a lot more to overcome the reputation they have built since the first papers were retracted from 2017-2018.

Hoera for bitcoin being over 100k

And

Hoera for bitcoin being under 100k

1 btc = 1 btc 🔥

Neither is the point. The point is the observation of groups making cost-benefit based decisions where to live and execute on these decisions. It shows a government is forced to treat its civilians more as if they are their customers. This aligns with the points brought forward in the Sovereign Individual: different nation states competing with each other for civilians willing to live in their country and contributing to it through taxation.

How the Sovereign Individual plays out in real: The failure of Norway’s wealth tax hike as a warning signal

https://www.brusselsreport.eu/2024/09/11/the-failure-of-norways-wealth-tax-hike-as-a-warning-signal/

Hayek on his thesis of denationalization of money

https://v2.akord.com/public/vaults/active/aca816f8-7f2b-4e86-ad97-f3a336c372dd/gallery#3ac1a755-bcfb-4a11-83be-56be72eb2bd9

Do we live in a democracy?

The EU proposal on cryptography regulations is deeply concerning. eIDAS article 45 enables a government mandated breach of private and secured web traffic.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/11/08/europe_eidas_browser/

Even after legitimate criticism of experts, the EU decides behind closed doors and without public consultation.

https://nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/cG88cptFdaDNyRr

With governments abusing the power we, the people, gave them, it becomes clear how weak businesses are at protesting and disobeying bad regulation. The future of our democracy must be secured by decentralization.

#decentralized #renaissance #eIDAS #article45

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Chris Whalen with some excellent notes on the SVB situation. Monday will be a key moment regarding if there will be a pivot.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1g7ZUQkWI&feature=youtu.be

#[0]​ I would love to hear your thoughts on the outlook for the Republican party debating the debt ceiling this summer with the same attitude as with the election of Kevin McCarthy.

What will be the impact of lack of unification in the Republican party for the debt ceiling debat?

Bitcoin hashrate is looking fine 👀🔥