Indeed!

GM Bitcoiners,

It seems like adoption is inevitable. A new and better world awaits. A fairer world with less suffering is coming. It's inevitable.

#bitcoin #nostr

Nobody is arguing for equality. A win win win model, or in other words, a non-zero sum game, is not equality. It's a game where everybody can win the more you use it (it's Bitcoin for example).

Bitcoin is a non-zero sum game. Because the more people use it the more useful and valuable it becomes.

The current capital system not so much for example, because most people usually don't have a way to benefit from the amount of capital (or concentration) in the world or in somebody's hands. With Bitcoin we have. Everybody has.

Bitcoin might be the only thing we need to create worldwide opportunity. But that doesn't mean people can't try to create other things for that purpose. That's my only point. :)

Sure, flowing and being decentralized is the same thing in this case in my perspective.

Bitcoin might become the best property in the world and thus become the only real flowing channel we need. But that doesn't mean that there shouldn't be other flowing channels.

Because to your point, one of the challenges is defining who's the producer and the consumer. It always was and always will be.

In other words, I think the company model will also evolve. Ownership models will probably evolve everywhere. It seems inevitable. And I believe that just like Bitcoin the most win-win-win ownership model will win. Bitcoin is a non-zero sum game. Thinking in producer vs consumer is a kind of a zero sum game. The non-zero sum games will always be better than zero sum games. In other words, the win win win model.

Georgism and stuff like that right? I'm interested in that kind of stuff.

I can't handle more rabbit holes currently though :D

Exactly. I fully agree! I think it's clear we need source of truths (for anything/everything). Source of truths are inherently centralized (to a degree of course). To a degree of course because if they're too centralized they eventually collapse.

I believe we will reach a day where people will realize that it was never about the State in itself but much more about mechanisms that control or define that state.

In other words I say this because there's seems to always be a need for a source of truth. We can call it anything but this need seems to be pretty much inevitable. Accounting (a source of truth) basically started civilization in Mesopotamia. We need a (several) source of truth. Bitcoin is clearly one very good source of truth, as we know.

The nation states were an original version of the source of truth. The real question in my view is HOW does that source of truth will look like in the future for different fields, including the nation state and politics.

I think Switzerland shows a good example for the current nation state model (because of their referendum models, etc) can look like. In other words I do think that in the next 50 years, new nation states models will be created/adapted and that the Swiss model could be a good idea in that sense.

But who knows, maybe the nation state will be completely abolished very quickly. I mean we are truly at that stage already, on an individual level any individual can in theory live stateless.

Everybody will be right. In the end, the medium is the message. We just have to build, to collaborate, in anything. Regardless of what it is. It's going to be fine. :)

I don't think the goal is to separate ourselves from the "herd".

I think the goal is more to show the way to the "herd".

Because we were all "sheep" at one point. And we still are in many regards.

If we lead people to the way, we will make everybody stronger.

But hey, that's my 2 cents.

I was thinking, maybe the problem of redistribution is truly more of a technical problem rather than a philosophical problem.

In other words, wealth is centralized because technically speaking, there simple haven't been other models that made it more decentralized.

I mean, in pratice, for wealth to be truly decentralized (or more redistributed) there will have to be more non-zero sum games/systems (markets, companies, countries, etc, etc) where everybody wins. And that's not a trivial job. It's inherently complex, because true value is inherently complex. And as we know Bitcoin is clearly one of those systems/games.

Bitcoin is a non zero sum game where EVERYBODY wins. The wealthy and the poor. That's truly absolutely incredible.

And definitely not trivial. There's many other of course, but Bitcoin is currently one of purest forms of those systems. It's a phenomenal investment.

#bitcoin #nostr #economy #politics #technology #philosophy

Grande perfil! Tu realmente deves ser dos primeiros podcasters em Portugal. Tinha amigos a fazerem sketches de vídeo em 2004 mas nenhum podcast.

Era fixe fazer um podcast hoje em dia a celebrar essa história :)

Awesome, added! Great city! Great opportunity to spread Nostr.

For when a #nostr conference in #lisbon? nostr:npub1hfg3tsmmp7g3u5cw6mzg0n9andehmgel6jug486eppsr0rqx4a3qlp7yfm created one in #coimbra the other day.

Cheers!

Awesome, added!

Hi Kyle! Nice to meet you! Thanks for the words and likewise!

Spokane must be great. Thinking about ever moving to Portugal?

I'm on X at https://x.com/citizenlocke

Cheers!

Any Bitcoiners (or Nostriches) in the Lisbon region? Or Portugal in general?

I'm looking to add more people in Lisbon and Portugal in general.

Feel free to add me also!

Let's create the network!!

Cheers!

#bitcoin #lisbon #portugal #nostr

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There is a better world. And we can create it.

First step is believing. Believe it and you can achieve it.

#bitcoin #nostr

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O problema é que muito top-down. Estas coisas têm que vir de baixo para cima. Comunidades Bitcoin, eventos, etc, etc.

O pessoal deste tipo de projectos (FreeCities, NetworkStates, etc) vai eventualmente entender isto, creio.

Of course, I agree. The real problem is what and how to define things. I obviously also want that, the question is how, what and where.

The real question is how, what and who gets to define what property rights are.

That’s the whole point.

What's the better alternative? What's not bs?

Switzerland is one of the freest countries in the world. https://www.heritage.org/index/pages/country-pages/switzerland

Nothing is perfect. I think the idea that because something is not perfect we shouldn't do anything is a form of nihilism.

But hey, to each its own. Not trying to convince anybody of anything. Just sharing what I've discovered.

I know this is a very sensitive topic for libertarians (which I'm one myself) but I believe the Swiss system holds the key for the democracy problem. I absolutely agree that the current model of what they call "democracy" is absolutely broken and will never work.

But that's just that model. What we need to do is redefine what democracy means. Democracy can't mean 4 year votes. That's insanity. Democracy needs to mean referendums every 3 months, People's Veto Power (ability to reject ANY law at any level, municipal, regional, federal), Citizen Initiatives, Public Recalls, etc.

In Switzerland people have been voting to REDUCE taxes for centuries now. And they do! Nobody wants to raise taxes. Nobody. When given the chance to vote on a referendum people ALWAYS reject tax raises. They've done this dozen of times.

That's in essence what I'm trying to do with https://thedemocracyupgrade.org/, basically trying to upgrade the concept of democracy. In my view Switzerland is the only real democracy in the world, the rest are just autocracies (in a different degree/percentage, everything is relative).