People dropping thousands of bucks monthly on car payments for a ride that loses value, but don’t own a single sat. Make it make sense. #Bitcoin

Nobody really owns their data though. Their keys yes. But the data is on relays. Which are run by someone else 99.9% of the time.

Nobody really owns their data though. Their keys yes. But the data is on relays. Which are run by someone else 99.9% of the time.

Nostr has lost the battle for censorship resistance.

While WE all know that Nostr is superior because it’s a protocol, people do NOT care enough. They are more interested in what’s written ON the box, not what’s necessarily inside the box.

The people who did care about “free speech” are now placated enough with Rumble for Video, X for short form, Substack for long form. With Meta now throwing their weight behind the movement, it’s game over for this narrative - at least for the foreseeable future.

There is no way Nostr as a brand can claim that space in people’s minds, especially against multiple established brands.

That ‘censorship resistance’ and ‘free speeech’ ships have sailed (even though they were fake), and the people who cared enough boarded.

The normies who never cared, still don’t care, or they found their way to the anti-platforms, like Threads, BlueSky or Pornhub.

The small minority of us still here on Nostr…are well…still here. We’re building, which is great - that MUST happen before anything else.

But if the goal is to grow the network effect here and bring in more people, then we need to find a new angle. Something more compelling that is a “running towards” value, not a “running away from” value.

I’m not 100% sure what that is. My instinct is that a “network of incredible applications”, that don’t necessarliy or explicitly brand themselves as Nostr, but have it under the hood is the right direction, but it needs more experimentation. Also needs more really well-build apps for non-sovereignty minded people (especially content creators) and people who don’t necessarly care about the reasons Nostr was first built.

We’ve been working away at this Satlantis thing for almost a year now and it’s coming along - albeit WAY slower than I would’ve liked. We’ve made a whole bunch of mistakes and at times I feel like a LARP considering the state of non-delivery.

BUT…we made some big changes in the last 2mths since missing a couple key deadlines, and I’m pretty confident we’ll have something cool to show in a month or two.

Let’s see if this approach starts to bring new interest andn activity here. Or if I’m full of shit. Either way, I’m going to keep looking for a better ngle than “free speech” because I no longer think that’s a battle we can win (we can come back and fight that battle when the time is more right, and when the winds have shifted in our favor once more).

Yes!

Arguably every gameshow has been this for many years

Yeah, it’s pretty wild when you are finally able to draw the connection. A could medium of exchange literally permeates every aspect of society, as almost every aspect of societal life involves some degree of exchange.

Comments on r/Europe on the post titled:

Elon Musk and Far-Right German Leader Agree ‘Hitler Was a Communist’

We're slowly witnessing the change of the Cultural Hegemony from the left-wing to the right-wing in Europe, and the average lefty Joe in Europe simply can't understand it.

In my view Swiss democracy is the missing piece everyone needs to truly understand what's going on. Hitler, Mao, the current EU, etc, etc, what they are is authoritarians. It's completely irrelevant if it's left or right wing, in the end. What matters is that it's top down. And people simply don't get this. Now, there are better authoritarians and worse authoritarians. i.e the Philosopher King idea. There are good kings and bad kings. But they're all kings.

The European social-democracy average person is so brainwashed to be left-wing or right-wing that they are:

a) Shocked for seeing their life narrative being broken (new cultural hegemony in Europe, and they haven't seen anything yet, wait until they understand money)

b) Zero perspective of economy or any principles, and what actually matters

TLDR: The European average social democracy Joe has no idea what's going on.

#europe #economy #politics #philosophy #bitcoin #nostr

In a bull market people are gaining conviction and learning about the technology and may not buy any long term holdings until they see a bear market price level again. There’s more to becoming a bit loner than getting orange pilled and aping in. It’s a long cycle. It plays out in a variety of ways.

4yo logic

We’re on the edge of massive breakthroughs: AI, self-driving cars, robot butlers, gravity propulsion systems, and maybe even aliens. These are things that could fundamentally change our day-to-day lives.

And yet, the future Bitcoiners describe—a world where you can save money and its value holds or even increases—is the one people still find unimaginable.

Why? Because no one thinks about money. No one understands it. It’s the foundation of society, but that foundation is built on theft. And we’ve been conditioned to ignore it, to accept that constant erosion of value as “just the way it is.”

Maybe it’s not that Bitcoin is too futuristic—it’s that imagining a world where theft isn’t baked into the system feels impossible. A world where you can save what you earn and hold your place in line without constantly falling behind.

Those other breakthroughs? They’re aspirational. You look up at them. But without sound money, they don’t fix the root problem—they only make it worse. Without Bitcoin, the divide between the haves and have-nots grows larger with every new advancement.

Ironically, it’s a sound monetary future that allows all those cool, crazy technologies to truly thrive. It’s Bitcoin that makes a future of innovation sustainable—because when theft isn’t built into the system, progress benefits everyone, not just the few.

While everyone focuses on the big, flashy breakthroughs they hope will change the world, Bitcoin is changing the world—one person at a time.

And it’s already here.

A revolta contra o compromisso foi levada a cabo, nos nossos dias, até chegar à revolta contra os votos de casamento. É engraçado ouvir os que são contra o casamento falarem deste assunto. Parece que imaginam que o ideal da constância foi um jugo imposto à Humanidade pelo diabo, em vez de ter sido, como é, um jugo imposto a si mesmos pelos que amam.

Eles inventaram uma expressão, uma expressão contraditória em duas palavras: 'Amor livre'. Como se quem ama alguma vez fosse, ou pudesse ser, livre. Faz parte da natureza do amor ficar vinculado, e a instituição do casamento apenas permitiu que o homem comum pudesse cumprir a sua palavra."

G.K. Chesterton in 'The Defence of Rash Vows'

The fault doesn't lie in the system, it lies in us.