Currently in the middle of the newest Saylor - Breedlove podcast.

Hes talking about the nature of war and how future wars will be fought.

We're at war right now and our oppressors are united and organized.

The developers are on the front line of this war.

Bitcoin Core

Nostr

Thanks to all who fight and provide hope during this wild time.

Goodnight #nostr

What is money? More importantly what isn't money? In order to know what something is you must first have a solid understanding of it, within that understanding and that knowledge something else is revealed. Once you know what something is you become aware of what it is not. That revelation, for me, when it comes to the subject of money has been even more profound.

Carl Jung defined an archetype as follows

Jungian archetypes are a concept from psychology that refers to a universal, inherited idea, pattern of thought, or image that is present in the collective unconscious of all human beings.

-wikipedia

Sometimes trying to identify and recognize the “patterns of thought” that we use on a moment-to-moment basis is similar to a fish trying to discover and define water. Money has many definitions, money is certainly a thought pattern, an archetype that we as humans use to think. We use it to process decisions and inform actions. The manner in which those thoughts are processed and decisions informed is dependent upon the individual and personal relationship we each have with money. This relationship is such a fundamental part of how we think that it is all encompassing. Meaning, the knowledge that I had of money and what money is did not permit me to have a perspective which allowed me to “see” and understand my relationship with money. I was a fish in water.

So I put in the work to change my perspective. Books, podcasts, articles, repeat, repeat, repeat. The subject of money, more specifically the function of money, the spirituality of money is what I was really interested in. Because I was so interested in it I was driven to consume as much as I could. It was fun, it still is fun. I would much rather read an article about Austrian Economics than watch a NetFlix series but that is not the point. It takes time and awareness to develop an understanding of anything. It takes even more time when that something is as complex as Money and Bitcoin. It takes even more time when that something is an archetypical thought process that we inherit from society and are indoctrinated into. In the words of Tim Corcran “Its hard work, but its the only work worth doing”.

So what is money? (In my opinion)

Money has layers.

First and foremost money is an imaginary representation of wealth.

As Humans we have the ability to produce more wealth than can be immediately utilized in the present moment. For example hunter gatherers pretty much applied their work and sold it to the present moment at a rate of nearly 100%. As we evolved we learned how to apply our work to the present moment so that resulted in a surplus yield. i.e. we would grow crops and keep livestock to provide future meals. Meaning the work we applied to the present moment resulted in more wealth than the present moment could store. This phenomenon is recognized by Man and his peers and, coupled with the recognition that self interest lies within collaboration, leads to the emergence of a good or object to facilitate that collaboration. This good or object is used to imaginally store and represent in the marketplace the wealth any individual has been able to accrue. This good or object can then be traded for other goods, products, or services and it can also be held in storage for the purpose of defending or protecting yourself from the uncertainty of future events. On the base layer or first principle, money is an imaginal, three dimensional, representation of humanWork()[time, energy, focus] applied to the present moment. As the dimension of Time is a fundamental law of nature which no human has the ability to manipulate, the amount of work a human can apply is universally regulated by Time. Time is unchanging. Time is incapable of bias. Time is impervious to manipulation. Human Time is finite. Any good money must have these same characteristics because ultimately money is a representation of human time.

On a secondary layer, money is communication.

Once a money has been established within a society or culture, especially large ones, it becomes communication. If you live in a tribe of even 50-100 people chances are you will be able to adequately coordinate and divide labor amongst the tribe by communicating using ONLY language. If you live in a much larger economy as we do today it would be absurd to attempt to coordinate and divide labor using only language.

I often think of Bees when trying to visualize this. Bees do not speak to one another, instead they communicate with pheromones, which are packets of chemical signals. These pheromones and the communication they provide allow a colony of hundreds or thousands of bees to coordinate and divide labor in such a way that allows a perfect expression of nature. Syntropic, harmonic, balanced, perfection.

The pheromones are the money. Tiny packets of data that allow individuals to communicate their wants, needs, and preferences in a cooperative and collaborative manner. This allows individuals to make decisions and act on what is best for themselves personally while not only remaining a part of the collective but doing so in a way that naturally aligns the collective interest with self interest. It results in a positive sum game. Syntropic, harmonic, balanced, perfection. Something we have not witnessed as a species because, throughout history, money has always been tampered with.

If money represents wealth, then what is wealth? I think wealth, in this context, is equivalent to time. As a human we are given the gift of time, the gift of a linear experience of time. Our lives have a beginning, a middle and an end. The amount of time we have is finite. It was, until recently, the only thing in the world that could be said to have absolute scarcity. How we choose to focus and invest our time is the manner in which we choose to live our lives. Time is divine and the ability to spend our time how we choose is freedom and that freedom is my greatest desire.

I think I need some Nostr art in the house.

Any suggestions???

#nostr #nostrart

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If I send bitcoin to my strike wallet that I got off of coinbase, so it's kyc, and then I buy bitcoin with strike am I technically selling my kyc btc for non-kyc btc??

Gabor mate is also pretty heavily involved in the ayahuasca space which is where I encountered him.

Good message but he is pretty drole and I can imagine his writing is similar.

This shit is getting hard to ignore.

Pronouns...

Breedlove calls himself a freedom maximalist.

Then we have Bitcoin maximalist.

What about a price signal maximalist??

I think it depends on how the client decides to handle the different aspects.

Sometimes I interact with notes based on how I personally want to save or review them. I find myself bookmarking a lot of content that I find valuable however the creator of the note is completely unaware of it. Nostr is so much more than traditional social media and I'm starting to think that trying to create within that limited framework is actually limiting and slowing nostr on its growth path.

If clients differentiated between likes, zaps on the user side and on the liker, zapper side (I had a record of all the notes I've liked and zapped) I am then incentivized to use them differently.

Right now they just seem like varying degrees of the same signal in which the weaker will inevitably fade and drown out.

Highlighter!

I think at this point I've given away more bitcoin in my life than I have fiat.

However I would never spend bitcoin the way I spend fiat.

If it were possible and we could zap fiat I wouldn't want it.

I want to give away my bitcoin to express my appreciation for content etc. V4V

I want to stack as much as possible. Spend the fiat, save the says.

Interesting to examine the thoughts, feelings, and attitudes I have developed around different monies.

I think monetization has a lot to do with this as well. The material world and mechanistic thought have been completely monetized. These patterns of thought are very progression-oriented making them the perfect structures for monetization and wealth extraction. This is why those ideas and processes are so heavily promoted and propagandized. It feels like our entire economy is built upon the wealth extractive principles built upon the material world.

Pharma

Not feeling well?

Head to the doctors - $$

Try this drug - $$

Education

Years of schooling - $$

Degree - $$

Everything is a stepped process including paywall after paywall. Each step toward the perception of progress requires permission from an authority, whether its a doctor, a professor, the state, a boss, etc.

In truth we live in a quantum world. A world of infinite possibility. We each have a personal and unique access to that place “beyond”.

A personal and unique access to health

A personal and unique access to happiness

A personal and unique access to knowledge

Nostr is the vascular system and LN is the nervous system of this new economy being built.

#nostr #grownostr #whatisnostr

Learning to use #nostr is like trying to find the toilet in the middle of the night during a power outage.

Good thing I like to be challenged.

#grownostr

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If I use the Web Console on Highlighter.com how do I know the relays I am publishing to?

I agree. The #nostr protocol is the birth of digital freedom of speech.

There is a lot of price signal distortion as a result of centrally curated information.

There is a lot of psychological distortion as a result of centrally curated information.

Information is equal to traffic lights and flow of traffic is equal to the flow of dollars.

The large corporations have control over over the information (the traffic lights) and manipulate and control the flow of dollars (cars) as they please and in a manner which yeilds greatest profits disregarding morality, health and safety along the way. These corporations do not compete for dollars they collaborate to control the flow of information and funnel the dollars into their front doors.

#nostrfixesthis

Lightning splits with relays!

Anyone know what these events are and why it's happening???

FTX Collapse was valued around 8bn

and was national news for weeks. According to the media and most headlines, the criminality of the situation was unfathomable and more than most people could grasp. SBF was called a con artist and a criminal and is currently set to be tried in October.

Meanwhile 3 banks have failed 5 months into the year 2023 for a combined total of over 530bn. 🙉

The lines between USD and every other #shitcoin are becoming more and more opaque while the line between #bitcoin and everything else continues to clarify and solidify.

Is it bad to stay logged into more than one at a time?

Anyone aware of a tool that will tell me how many clients I am currently logged into?

#nostr #nostrdevs