‘If you have to convince people who are not directly dependent on the solution to the problem, you will not succeed.’ Ludwig von Mises
Hopefully it doesn’t come to this. Would mean face to face collaboration is dead…?
Yeah but that wouldn’t have saved zion would it
I mean, is unplugging from the matrix or whatever you call it enough? I think eventually you have to have heroes in the real world
Whatever point nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw is trying to make here, it's all coming from his own personal view of the whole matter. But I don't agree with him.
One thing is for sure for both Bitcoin and Nostr: individual sovereignty. The idea is to eliminate a single point of failure (e.g., Elon Musk). In other words, there is no need to trust Elon/X as a savior when a technology (Nostr) can do. This is what most Brazilians are yet to discover. And, whoever is point them to Nostr, is only moving them in the right direction. Iron man is incapable saving the world.
As much as Elon is doing his best with X/Twitter, he's just an outdated hero in a world full of Nostr, and Bitcoin. It's up to the individuals to discover for themselves.
Isn’t the issue though that sure, you can retreat into Nostr and Bitcoin but lets say they’re illegal, how is that going to change your life in the real world. If you’re just a pseudonym on a protocol and have value in bitcoin that you can’t spend… I can see how this might give you hope and be a path to revolution but it doesn’t help your immediate reality. I know patience is key but there at least has to be a path visible
There is only one person that can solve the Israel-Palestine dispute
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I still don’t agree. If someone has been posting under their real name on Nostr and has tens of thousands of followers, them turning around and saying to the authorities ‘oh that isn’t actually me posting’ isn’t going to convince anyone, let alone a regime that wants to convict them
Would think it would depend on how tyrannical the government is. Some really extreme ones could even spin up accounts of well known dissidents just to have something to arrest them for
Get stopped by a cop and asked for ID
He said stick to the limit I said bitch I can’t hardly read
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If you can make yourself laugh you’re going to have a great life
People keep dumping oversized rubbish in the bin room and the body corporate was throwing around ideas and I wanted to say that we should do that think in Saw 1 where he is chasing Jigsaw and triggers the trip wire tied to shotguns, but I didn't say it
Do you think it’s possible to be too tired to sleep?
If you do KYC to buy bitcoin it kind of defeats the purpose
Want to understand how inflation impacts your purchasing power?
Let's look at The New Yorker, which publishes the price of each copy right on the front of the magazine.
1925: 15 cents
2024: $8.99
What the heck happened to make The New Yorker so much more expensive?
It's important to understand that technology is naturally DEFLATIONARY.
Everything should be getting cheaper over time, including The New Yorker.
Think about it: printing, writing, & editing technology has improved tremendously since 1925.
So, why is the magazine more expensive now?
From 1925 to 1971, The New Yorker increased in price from 15 cents to 50 cents, an increase of 233.33%.
That's pretty dramatic, but not THAT bad...
But from 1971 to 2024, price increased from 50 cents to $8.99, an increase of 1698%.
So, WTF happened in 1971?
In 1971, Richard Nixon "temporarily" suspended the convertibility of dollars to gold, ending the Gold Standard.
This meant that the Federal Reserve could now print dollars out of thin air without restriction.
Increasing the money supply by creating new money out of thin air is literally "inflation."
"Prices rising" is the result of inflation.
When more monetary units are created, the purchasing power of the monetary units that already exist decreases.
When the government/central bank prints money out of thin air, they are STEALING your purchasing power.
Here's The New Yorker over a few decades:
1971: $0.50
1980: $1.00
1990: $1.75
2000: $3.00
The magazine did not become more valuable, our MONEY became LESS valuable.
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By looking at this example of The New Yorker, which cost 15 cents in 1925 and costs $8.99 today, we see that the U.S. dollar has lost approximately 98.33% of its purchasing power in less than 100 years.
This is what happens when you print money out of thin air...
When money is controlled by the State, you are powerless to stop the destruction of your purchasing power.
Technology should be making everything LESS expensive over time, but even something as simple as a magazine gets more and more expensive over time.
So, what can you do to protect yourself from the government/central bank printing money out of thin air and destroying your purchasing power?
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There will only ever be 21 million bitcoin and no government or central bank can print more.
But if you didn’t have fixat currency you wouldn’t have been able to raise an army and instead it would now be the New Tokyoer
In fact, I was talking to Dick Cuckerston just the other day and he said to me that he has since realised that humans themselves are a threat to democracy and appropriate measures are being discussed at all senior levels and will be implemented at the appropriate time for the good of the people