2025 was a year that taught me that "Bitcoin Fixes This" will be a slower grind than anyone can ever imagine.

⚡️💸 NEW - X/Twitter will implement a creator compensation system similar to YouTube's. This should therefore increase significantly.

Remember that in order to receive payments, you must first complete KYC verification.

We’re building completely new infrastructure here on nostr. We’ve been fortunate to be able to tinker and learn while we’re still small. The people are coming, and when they do, you’ll be glad we had the time for us to work through the bugs together 🤙

Why not use syncthing ?

perfect, do you have a URL for us or is it private for personal use ?

⚡️🇮🇪🇪🇺 NEW - Ireland pushes for mandatory ID verification on social media across the EU.

Ireland plans to use its upcoming EU presidency to advocate mandatory ID verification on social media platforms, aiming to target anonymous bots and online abuse.

But then it's like....

Oh, here are the 5 new posts since I last checked...

Done, back to my life!

Who is stopping you from doing that?

Control of what?

⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Russian enthusiasts are building their own DDR5 RAM amid the worldwide shortage.

Do-it-yourself RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing memory chips and soldering them onto empty PCBs.

This shit is radicalizing people around the world, keep doing that Israel. Fuck Israel, your day will come.

#hola

Feliz navidad 🎄 🦌

❤️‍🔥

Is the Epstein story the laser pointer on the ground, and are we the cats?

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⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Massive Cyberattack on French Infrastructure

Just three days before Christmas, a cyberattack knocked France’s national postal service La Poste offline, disrupting package deliveries and online payments at the peak of the holiday rush.

La Poste said a DDoS attack rendered its online services inaccessible.

The attack also hit La Banque Postale. Customers were unable to approve payments or access key banking services via the app, forcing the bank to reroute payment approvals to SMS.

The disruption comes just one week after France’s Interior Ministry suffered a separate cyberattack that exposed sensitive police and wanted-persons data.

French officials say the incidents fit a broader pattern of “hybrid warfare” targeting France and other European allies of Ukraine, involving cyberattacks, sabotage, disinformation, and covert operations that are difficult to directly attribute.

⚡️🇫🇷🎂 NEW - Emmanuel Macron celebrated his 48th birthday yesterday.

Any messages for him?

OK, before we all freak out... how the heck do these 'tards plan to validate every single account, in the world, as belonging to someone in Australia, in Victoria State?

Hell, we should all just open some VPN proxies to Australia, create a ton of accounts, post idiotic stuff that we know will get us on watch lists, and then abandon the accounts. Keep their government lackeys overwhelmed for years.

We will make it. There are better nostr apps coming

In 2000, Saddam Hussein did something very few people paid attention to.

He announced Iraq would start selling oil in euros, not U.S. dollars.

Three years later, the United States invaded Iraq.

No weapons of mass destruction were ever found.

But something else happened quietly.

Iraqi oil went right back to being priced in dollars.

Most people call that a coincidence.

I call it a lesson.

In 2009, Muammar Gaddafi proposed something even more dangerous.

A gold-backed African currency — the gold dinar.

It would have allowed African nations to buy oil without using dollars.

In 2011, NATO intervened in Libya for “humanitarian reasons.”

Gaddafi was killed.

The gold dinar disappeared.

Libyan oil? Back to dollars.

Another coincidence.

I’m noticing a pattern.

Go back further.

In 1971, President Nixon took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard.

The dollar was no longer backed by gold — only a promise.

By all historical logic, the dollar should have collapsed.

It didn’t.

Why?

Because three years later, Henry Kissinger cut a deal with Saudi Arabia.

The deal was simple:

Sell oil only in U.S. dollars, and the U.S. military will protect the regime.

From that moment on, every country on earth needed dollars to buy energy.

That wasn’t free-market economics.

That was force-backed monetary policy.

Or, more honestly, a protection racket.

And it works — as long as the military can enforce it.

Watch what happens when countries challenge it.

Russia demands rubles for natural gas?

Sanctions. Escalation.

Syria discusses pipelines priced outside the dollar system?

Civil war intensifies. Pipeline never happens.

Iran tries to sell oil outside the dollar?

Decades of sanctions.

I’m not saying these are good governments or bad governments.

I’m saying watch what happens when anyone threatens the petrodollar system.

Once you see it, the pattern isn’t subtle.

SWIFT is not a neutral payment system.

It’s a weapon.

Get cut off from SWIFT, and you’re locked out of global trade.

Russia.

Iran.

Cuba.

Venezuela.

Different politics. Same outcome.

They don’t teach this in school because it’s uncomfortable.

We don’t send 18-year-olds to die for “freedom.”

We send them to protect reserve currency status.

Currency funds the military.

The military protects the currency.

That’s how empires work.

Britain learned this the hard way.

The British pound was the world’s reserve currency for nearly 200 years.

After World War II, Britain lost reserve status.

Within two decades, the British Empire collapsed.

Same cycle.

Dutch guilder.

British pound.

Now the U.S. dollar.

Ray Dalio has been warning about this for years.

Late-stage empire looks like this:

• Military overextension

• Rising debt

• Currency weakening

• Rivals building alternatives

China’s Belt and Road isn’t charity.

It’s about creating debt relationships denominated in yuan.

BRICS aren’t talking about alternatives because they’re friends.

They’re building an exit ramp from dollar dependence.

When the dollar loses reserve status — not if, when — the ability to print money without consequences disappears.

- Then the military contracts.

- Then the empire ends.

- You can call this cynical.

I call it financial history.

Every war in my lifetime had a currency angle — if you knew where to look.

“Freedom and democracy” is the marketing.

The actual policy documents talk about

“maintaining dollar liquidity in global energy markets.”

I’m not anti-military.

I’m anti-bullshit.

If we’re sending people to fight…

We should at least be honest about why.

I'm surprised we don't see more brits

this new build isn't live yet, its built in svelte and has a built in monero wallet. It is a massive upgrade in every way than the current monstr.land build.

The Privacy Paradox: What Data Breaches Reveal About Us

The sheer volume of data breaches has become background noise. Another headline, another apology email, another year of free credit monitoring. Yet we continue uploading our lives to centralized platforms, seemingly unbothered.

This is not ignorance. This is learned helplessness masquerading as trust.

We have outsourced our digital sovereignty to authorities and corporations under an implicit bargain. They will protect us, regulate the bad actors, make it all okay. The same institutions that cannot secure their own databases are somehow expected to secure ours. The same regulatory bodies that move at glacial speeds while tech evolves exponentially.

Every breach proves the bargain is broken. But rather than reclaim ownership of our data, we wait for the next patch, the next regulation, the next promise that this time they will get it right.

The contradiction is stark. We claim to value privacy while actively surrendering it. We demand accountability from systems designed to centralize power, then act surprised when that power is abused or incompetent.

Perhaps the real revelation is not that breaches keep happening. It is that we have normalized them. We have accepted that our data will be leaked, sold, or stolen as the price of participation in modern digital life.

Decentralized protocols are not just technical alternatives. They are philosophical rejections of this entire framework. They suggest that maybe the solution is not better authorities, but fewer dependencies on authority altogether.

The question is not whether culture cares about privacy. The question is whether we care enough to do something radically different about it.

What do you think? Are we genuinely apathetic, or just trapped in a system that makes real privacy feel impossible?

How would that work then?