This is the most concentrated market in the past 40+ years.

Just the top 5 companies now make up 28% of the S&P 500.

If these 5 collapse, i hope you have a opt out option with #Bitcoin.

The outcome of this protocol is "free speech" - in all and across tools - built on this foundation..

Banning X only affects influencers. That's why I think it's really cool. Regular people don't use X. They don't lose anything.

WhatsApp on the other hand... 😱

Yes, he just needs an excuse to ban WhatsApp as well.

Because of exit.pub and going through my very old tweets, I’ve realized that the main way in which I’ve changed since then is that I am both more cynical and more optimistic.

The ultimate use case for #bitcoin Lightning is creating an (open source) API platform that AI Agents can connect too, create wallets and exchange payments with other agents. Autonomously.

The real #Howey test ..

Commodity = cost of manufacture + the profit due to subsidies ( gov handouts)

Security = EPS + the monetary premium of narrative.

Assets are neither of those - because :

Assets = cost of manufacture + the monetary premium of narrative .

#bitcoin is a digital asset ..

As #nostr gets into hypergrowth cycle - 20 % per month - (greedy) corporations would want to get a piece of pie - just like AIX , HP-UX and Sun Solaris tried to tap into Unix market ..

It is not necessarily bad if you see

- Xster

- Instastr

- Whatstr

- Telestr

- Ditstr

They will offer their users dual option - continue using the legacy backend - or move to their #nostr Relays .. same feature but an option to see your content through likes of #Amethyst #Damus or #Gossip

Such moves will be driven by greed - Identify the users in legacy application - tie it to their free expression on #nostr side .. they will be forced to do it anyways - to stop their tech talent from fleeting .. a barrier - "best of both worlds" types of rationality - which is basically BS ..

Anyways - no one can stop history from repeating .. one thing is sure - out of this churn - finally something like #Linux would emerge - an operating system of internet ..

Specs are hard to foresee at this moment - but I have a feeling - this new system will be 90% #Rust and the communication protocol would be p2p - #mashtastic ???

AND SOMETIMES NOTE IN ALL CAPS

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Psudonymous systems were when we started creating an ID on the server side .. that was an improvement because original anonymous internet was incapable of keeping a history ..

The key pair systems particularly that are implemented on client side .. and thus KYC free ..are the best (physically possible) implementation of anonymity... So I call them "near anonymous" systems

The problem is NOT the system .. the problem is people attach their real IDs to #nostr IDs because they want to leverage their pre-existing networks ..

If you want to popular .. you can't have privacy ..people will find out everything about you no matter what you do ..

Btw ..I am super amazed by X supporters on this thread 😂 .. why ? Isn't nostr good enough for y'all

Citizens should be proud of Brazil gov .. they are opening the pathways to trustless web - #nostr ... No seriously .. more countries should follow the suite ..asap

As for privacy (aka VPN ) , they were the immune response to web of trust ( Google and Facebook being the prime KYC clerks ) .. in trustless web , anonymity is default choice !

Why is unbelievable?

Anything you can name from internet is banned and filtered in my country.

Telegram, YouTube, Twitter/X, TikTok, Whatsapp, Facebook, Viber, Instagram, Spotify, Quera, Reddit,....

Just name it

Anything that is not banned from inside, bans us from outside to comply with the US sanctions.

A Brazilian justice just ordered Apple and Google to ban not only X but also any VPN app. There’s also a $10k/day fine for any person using a VPN to access X. Unbelievable.