GM

Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

Recording the next (quarterly) Mastermind discussion this evening with nostr:nprofile1qqsg2zqd8wkhpnxu6lm5c2dyfa2mhpwte57apjae2ldp6g2mmwf3ypqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a3089nsfz, nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnyh3p7y9, and nostr:nprofile1qqsgz30qhzza9mh9lpxd3ls5ekkc9u3rrqmnz3ngahad8cyt80kjuucpp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7qfpwaehxw309aehgatyv4h8gtnrdpskgur0d3uhgetrdphxjcewvdhk608zepv … which is always a good time.

We already have much to talk about, but what would you like us to touch on?

Comment below. 👇🏼

Recording the next (quarterly) Mastermind discussion this evening with nostr:nprofile1qqsg2zqd8wkhpnxu6lm5c2dyfa2mhpwte57apjae2ldp6g2mmwf3ypqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a3089nsfz, nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnyh3p7y9, and nostr:nprofile1qqsgz30qhzza9mh9lpxd3ls5ekkc9u3rrqmnz3ngahad8cyt80kjuucpp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7qfpwaehxw309aehgatyv4h8gtnrdpskgur0d3uhgetrdphxjcewvdhk608zepv … which is always a good time.

We already have much to talk about, but what would you like us to touch on?

Comment below. 👇🏼

GN

GN

the entire point of bitcoin is that we can spend or save it without permission

that said, having the us gov actively trying to ruin our lives is not ideal

the progress we have made since last year on the policy front is tangible, absolutely massive, still much work to be done, need to keep pushing

as trust continues to erode in the centralized institutions our societies rely on, bitcoin and nostr represent a strong alternative to reduce the chaos of an inevitable collapse

ironically, bitcoiners will be scapegoated, we will likely be blamed for the sins of others - hope for the best, plan for the worst

america is the best place to be a bitcoiner for the first and second amendments alone

everything else is gravy

I haven't seen normie landia this afraid since COVID times

GM hope you all have a good week

it is interesting that elon has no opinion on the white house bull posting about bitcoin

he seems to have an opinion on everything else

Bitcoin Strategic Reserve is huge. Before the ETFs and this one could credibly argue that the Government would try to hamper Bitcoin. That argument has been demolished at least until Team Blue wins again. (If they do).

GM

I never took any money as American hodl.

Not because I’m above it, but because it would have undercut the message.

If I’m telling you all you have to do is hodl, why am I making money off this or that? Doesn’t make sense.

I do well when bitcoin goes up.

I don’t need to sell you shit.