Looking back it’s amazing that we sat in front of this thing for hours everyday to literally be programmed by the government.

The phone and whatever replaces it will be a million times worse unless we stop it.

bitcoin has been running for nearly 17 years

at the protocol level, no transaction has ever been blocked, no coin has ever been seized

not enough people appreciate the magnitude of these simple facts

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all behavior makes sense with enough information.

Bitcoin search interest is up 23.5% 📈 Looks like more people are catching onto the digital gold rush! 🚀🔍

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It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

It was my girlfriend’s fathers birthday yesterday. The coolest one piece of Chipa you’ll ever see.

Epstein files won’t be released for another 50 years when everyone on them is already dead

He want to reduce supply so he control a higher percentage of coins in the network. His aim is to become the new age central banker.

quantum computing will forever be in the superposition of happening and not happening

NOBODY EVER THINKS OF THE GUY IN THE COMA

He's the moosiest moose of them all.

#nogstr

Rate my pesto. #foodstr

I’d rather research and talk about shitcoins than treasury companies.

They’re much more interesting to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

First attempt at baking Focaccia.

Don't comply with anus scanning.

Not gonna dox these two even though they are influencers who doxxed themselves but please for the love of God don’t post shit like this.

Just raw dogged a trip with my GFs family.

- No Raw Milk

- Seed Oils everywhere

- No Bitcoin Podcasts