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How is issuing treasuries (liability) to buy Bitcoin (asset) not budget neutral?

It seems all they'd really need is a buyer of those treasuries.

This is the “hoodie anon, hideaway culture”. People should not have to hide their identities in order to swipe software.

Human collaboration in person and in the open should not suffer because the State doesn’t like the code you write.

Having your name associated with the tools you write is not about “recognition” it’s about free association in a free country.

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Opens X…

Scrolls through 100s of comments.. no nostr. Loads “probable spam”.. no Nostr.. no more comments..

Finds reply on profile. Retweets.

Closes X…

Nostr is shadow banned on X. I have 0 doubt.

My stack waiting for bitcoin to become adopted as currency

*cheaper* sats. For now..

A network is either permissionless or authoritarian. Open or closed. Censorship-resistant or censored.

Open networks inevitably run into the issue of spam and impersonation. Sybill attacks, DDoS attacks, resource exhaustion, and worse.

It's tempting to solve these issues in a centralized (read: authoritarian) way. But this just introduces new problems, turning the open network into a closed one.

These issues can't be solved perfectly. However, a clever combination of PoW + WoT will solve most of them, and yes, I include sats in this equation implicitly, because sats are just difficulty-adjusted PoW.

Identity has to be cryptographic, which means taken and defended, as opposed to given. Keys, not accounts.

Money has to be money proper, which means a bearer instrument as opposed to credit linked to an account. Cash, not credit.

Keys and sats have the power to usher in a new era of the internet. We must be careful to not repeat the mistakes of the past, however. It will take time. But it's fundamentally possible, and we're slowly but surely getting there. Key by key. Sat by sat. Npub by npub.

The Web is dead. Long live the web 🤙

🚩 False Dichotomies

1. “A network is either permissionless or authoritarian. Open or closed. Censorship-resistant or censored.”

✘ False dichotomy.

• Networks exist on a spectrum: some are semi-open (e.g. federations, permissioned blockchains, P2P overlays).

• Permissionlessness can also be partial (open to connect, but with rate limits or whitelists).

• “Authoritarian” is a rhetorical label — most systems balance openness with practical controls.

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🚩 Spam & Security Assumptions

2. “Open networks inevitably run into spam and impersonation.”

✘ Misleading.

• True they are vulnerable, but mitigations exist beyond just PoW: rate limits, staking, identity attestations, proof-of-human systems.

• Saying “inevitable” ignores 30+ years of real-world open systems like email (with spam filters, DKIM, reputation systems).

3. “Sybil attacks, DDoS attacks, resource exhaustion… can only be solved via PoW + WoT.”

✘ Wrong.

• Proof-of-Stake, proof-of-space/time, trusted hardware, economic bonding, and many other mechanisms also mitigate sybils.

• Web-of-Trust (WoT) has historically failed to scale (PGP being the canonical example).

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4. “I include sats in this equation implicitly, because sats are just difficulty-adjusted PoW.”

✘ Wrong.

• Sats are ledger entries, not work itself. The work (hashing) secures the chain; it doesn’t imbue the units with intrinsic PoW that can be “re-spent” elsewhere.

• PoW isn’t portable: you can’t reuse Bitcoin’s PoW to defend against email spam, DDoS, or sybils. The work is consumed once in block validation.

• Claiming sats = PoW overstates what they can do outside the Bitcoin ledger.

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🚩 Identity & Money Claims

5. “Identity has to be cryptographic, which means taken and defended, as opposed to given.”

✘ Overstated.

• Cryptographic keys = control, but most identity in practice is socially anchored (governments, institutions, web-of-trust attestations).

• Purely cryptographic identity (keys alone) fails when keys are lost, stolen, or reset.

6. “Money has to be bearer instrument … cash, not credit.”

✘ Misleading.

• Most modern money is credit-based (bank deposits, treasuries). Bearer instruments (cash, gold, crypto) exist but are not the only form of “money proper.”

• This is more of a philosophical preference than a factual truth.

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7. Keys and sats have the power to usher in a new era of the internet.”

✘ Overclaim.

• Keys already underpin the internet (TLS, SSH, DNSSEC). They don’t, by themselves, fix spam, identity, or governance.

• Sats are not a generalized anti-spam tool. Even with protocols like bithash on nostr, using payments as a universal rate-limit is impractical: too costly for normal use, easy to bypass via custodians, and risks centralizing around payment hubs.

• Cryptographic signing ≠ trust. Signing proves a message came from a key, but not that the key belongs to who you think, or that the content is truthful. Saylor’s “private-key identity” vision collapses without external social/organizational anchors.

• In short: keys + sats can improve certain systems, but they cannot alone restructure the whole internet.

8. “The Web is dead. Long live the web.”

✘ Rhetorical flourish, but misleading.

• The Web is evolving (Web3, federated services, p2p overlays). It’s not “dead,” just changing.

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✅ In short:

• He sets up false dichotomies (“open or authoritarian”).

• Misrepresents sats as “just PoW.”

• Ignores non-PoW solutions to spam and Sybils.

• Treats WoT as viable at scale when history shows otherwise.

• Frames bearer-money-only as a necessity when in reality credit money dominates.

• Declares “Web is dead” for rhetorical drama, not accuracy.

Fiat currency

I eagerly await your next note when you do

You read those #stoopidlines like no one else

I eagerly await your next note when you do

You read those #stoopidlines like no one else

Is there a way to stream on Zap.stream from a phone? #AskNostr

Yep. Totally missing the hush puppies and OJ.

👆 you're on a list now

What's this? A lunch break? We waiting for you back on zap stream!!

Good thing I'm also anti-american these days, too.

Maduro warned the USA: "No empire will conquer the land of Venezuela"

Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela: “The deployment of 4.5 million military forces across the country guarantees that no empire will touch the sacred land of Venezuela.”

The hourly doesn’t look bad

Nah, Saylor says we good.

Soak it up

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