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Harrison Friedes
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AI for Individual Rights at the Human Rights Foundation, Founder & President of Freedom Lab NYC , Chair of Fat Cat Fab Lab.

A local AI that tracked all personal transactions and provided an exact calculation of inflation could be cool.

If it requires a YouTube tutorial, the UX isn't that good.

What's the best podcast on Bitcoin politics / policy you listen to?

If vibe coding can get to a point where it can easily replicate any app, which it's not far away from, everything will be de facto open source.

Kind of crazy I've received $10 in zaps on Club Orange, for advertising I never have to even look at. Feel like there's something in the future of advertising here that could be very positive.

We might be at an end of an era, where there will no longer be early adapters of technology, and AI tools like vibe coding become so intuitive that innovations are equally available to everyone at once, independent of aptitude or technical niche. Sort of unheard of throughout the history of technology? The implications of this seem largely positive, but I could be wrong or missing something.

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What AI do you like best for logo image generation?

I've been doing some research on the biggest mistakes we Bitcoiners made as a community β€” and obviously we got very complacent over time.

Instead of listening to podcast hopium and alienating people with "have fun staying poor" narratives, we should've focused on game theory and patched up at least some of the holes.

It was always inevitable that Bitcoin was going to get attacked, and things like having close to 100% of nodes run on a single implementation was just silly in hindsight.

People are doing more harm than good when posting charts of hashrate going vertical without the context that 2 pools (Foundry and Antpool) are close to 50% of hashrate and for more than 98% of cases, pools, not miners decide which transactions get added to the blockchain.

You had most of the Bitcoin community cheering price over payment share; we welcomed ETFs as victory. Paper share rose, self-custody fell.

The entire community also cheered Square's surveilled "Bitcoin payments" where every payment generates identity-linked transaction data: buyer, location, device, and amount.

All transactions flow through Square/Cash App's KYC/AML perimeter, meaning both sides of the payment are verified.

That data fuels risk scoring, fraud models, blacklist propagation, and targeted marketing.

Exactly this surveillance value is Square's enduring moat, not the 1% fee.

We just got too complacent.

I'd say the 5 main mistakes we Bitcoiners made are:

1. Letting arbitrary data compete with money on the base layer (witness discount abetted it). For Medium-of-Exchange you need predictable fees; underpriced junk data is a Denial-of-Service subsidy.

2. Treating privacy as an "expert mode". That guarantees surveillance wins by default. Make privacy invisible and automatic.

3. Under-investing in operational safety (backups, recovery, liquidity UX). Normal users pick custodians when scared.

4. Relying on norms over policy. In a low Gross Consent Product world, policy beats culture. If your mempool policies are naΓ―ve, adversaries will price you out.

5. Ignoring perimeter levers (app stores, banks, clouds). If you don't plan redundant routes, the other side will plan your failure.

The uncomfortable truth is that Bitcoin's defense can't be "hope users pick hard mode".

Defaults decide outcomes.

If Bitcoin wants to be mass Medium-of-Exchange, privacy, finality, recoverability, and predictability must be invisible and automatic β€” and the perimeter must be treated as hostile by default.

Until then, paper wrappers will dominate, regulators will "clarify", and L1 will be priced as store-of-value with supervised access, not as everyday cash.

The good news: all of that is fixable β€” but only if it's designed, not preached.

"Make privacy invisible and automatic" πŸ’―

Has anyone tried vibe coding a Nostr Etsy with Shakespeare.diy? Seems like low hanging fruit.

Pro-tip: Tell AI to ask 5 - 10 clarifying questions before generating or editing an image. It turns out it actually has a thought process behind all the inane-seeming choices it makes, and it will spell them out for you to direct beforehand to preempt.

Example of an image I was able to get in a few prompts using this trick.

Had a great time presenting nostr:nprofile1qyf8wumn8ghj7cnfw3ehgctrdvhxzursqythwumn8ghj7cmp9ehhyctwvajhq6tvdshxgetkqqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sggjrzcm 's AI for Individual Rights program at Oslo Innovation Week. It was very cool to get to join a conversation that was largely about policy and the potential dystopian outcomes of AI to introduce the goal of supporting AI tools that are privacy- and sovereignty-preserving on a technical level.

I just slaughtered 3 Nostr zombies using #PlebsVsZombies! βš”οΈπŸ§Ÿβ€β™€οΈπŸ§Ÿβ€β™€οΈ

My Zombie Scoreβ„’ was 7%! What's yours?

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Kind of wild to see this in the NYC subway

This looks amazing, thank you nostr:nprofile1qy8hwumn8ghj7cfwdehhxtnvdakqz9thwden5te0dp5hxapwdehhxarj9ekxzmnyqqsr7809rks0n4fy32tw68zn8dazhxxelq9whjqmy99t2plkc7shpfqlcrt8p !

Check out our hands-on workshop on running a node, Tues, July 29th!

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