One of my top five favorite quotes:

“But there do exist, I can assure you, souls that are feeling and pure; it exists, that tender, imperious, and irresistible passion, the torment and delight of magnanimous hearts; that deep horror of tyranny, that compassionate zeal for the oppressed, that sacred love for the homeland, that even more sublime and holy love for humanity, without which a great revolution is just a noisy crime that destroys another crime…”

— Maximilien Robespierre, “Speech of 8 Thermidor Year II” (26 July 1794)

“When a people is constituted – that is, ordered by the principle of sovereignty – it is collectively responsible for maintaining this sovereign order, maintaining the laws. Within this space of sovereignty, responsibility is collective. Someone who does not rise up against tyrant and crime, but allows crimes to happen, himself becomes a tyrant and a traitor. ‘The cruelty of pity’ is therefore not just a figure of rhetoric; it means that allowing political crime means becoming criminal oneself. The logic of natural right thus associates a theoretical humanism (it is in the name of humanity that one must act) with a situational anti-humanism (the life of a man or a people is worth nothing if they betray their humanity). The sentiment of revolutionary humanity does not lead to protecting suffering bodies above everything else, regardless of who and where they might be. The object is to protect above all humanity as a group constituted politically by its respect for declared natural right, from the most local to the most cosmopolitan level. We might say that this sentiment of humanity is entirely on the side of political life, sometimes accepting the need to despise the ‘fine day of life’ that may conceal within it the oppression of the whole human race.”

- Sophie Wahnich, In Defence of the Terror

Yeah, it just came out

Filmmakers stop lying about and disparaging Robespierre and the Jacobins challenge level: impossible

Otherwise, Napoleon was good

It’s just a tribute

“Since what is wrong with our economy is the excessive numbers of assignats [paper money] in circulation, we must ensure that their numbers are not allowed to increase, lest they depreciate apace. We must legislate so that as little money as possible is printed, but for that to be practicable, we must reduce the burden of charges falling on the national treasury, either by paying our creditors in land, or by repaying our debts in annual installments. In either event, it must be done without manufacturing additional paper money.”

"But if instead of restoring the economy and putting pressure on the traitors, if instead of making them pay for the war, you issue assignats to enrich them even more, you will add more and more to the means that have your enemies to harm you.”

“How would three or four hundred million [assignats] issued per month not cast corruption into society? This finance system could flourish a monarchy; but it has to ruin the whole republic.”

“When the country upholds a terrible war, when twelve hundred thousand citizens shed their blood, the Treasury, by a huge mass of new currencies, nourish disturbances and passions, without anyone retrenching his avarice and cruelty!”

- French revolutionary Louis Antoine de Saint-Just on inflation

Thanks for everything you did to put this together and make it what it was, Rockstar! 🙏💜👏⚡️

The fans and the actors are about to will #wolfwren into existence

🙏❤️💚🙏

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-ahsoka-sabine-shin-ship-support/

Thanks, nostr:npub1u5njm6g5h5cpw4wy8xugu62e5s7f6fnysv0sj0z3a8rengt2zqhsxrldq3! And thanks for letting me talk French Revolution stuff at you 😂✊

*Rockstar’s presence and persistence

In a world where scaling up to infinity is the default, I’m grateful to work at nostr:npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha where the power of intimate events like #Nostrville is on full display. I greatly appreciate the guidance and leadership of nostr:npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3, nostr:npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3, and nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx in this community-first, third space endeavor that I feel is absolutely integral to the success of a grassroots movement like Bitcoin.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us from around the world this week to share their energy, expertise, and vision for the future of nostr (and Bitcoin more broadly), and to every volunteer who donated their time and effort to the well-being of the Park and its guests. Running sound for the event means I heard every panel and presentation in the event space, and man did I hear a lot of signal and learn more than I anticipated. But it’s the in-person interactions that occur on campus that offer unique opportunities to connect or reconnect that hold real power.

Special shoutout to nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf for the Nostrville app and jumping on our Open House panel with literally no notice. And to nostr:npub1rpes5hhk6mxun5ddt5kecxfm8y3xdr0h5jwal32mc6mxafr48hxsaj2et2 who designed the Nostrville poster below, and whose touch on Bitcoin Park events immediately secures my confidence in our logistical success.

Finally, I would be remiss to not thank nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg for his presence and (yes, his attendance, but more his general way of including and exciting everyone) in making this event what it was. And last but certainly not least, the one and only nostr:npub1j0sh8peshr8rthgn0hlh2mxqwaazne3kc3rqsm0y7ysssg77wd8smfga0n, whose attention to detail and steadfast commitment to excellence keeps the entire operation soaring.

Thanks, y’all! The future is bright because the people are. Apologies if I left anyone out.

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Thank you, nostr:npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4! Happy to help y’all get your signal out to the world. Your show was the perfect finale for #Nostrville. 💜

It appears that I am the very first person to post any #wolfwren content on nostr (at least on the relays I’m connected to)

Where are my Star Wars fans at, especially fans of the Ahsoka series, and even more specifically, fans of Sabine Wren and Shin Hati??

Bitcoin’s block space/fee market is a really good example of how a “free market” is not a “market without regulation”.

Bitcoin has a very strict set of rules and regulations that govern the protocol, including block size and how to conduct a valid transaction.

The fact that the rules apply to everyone equally is why it could be considered free. Allowing a central authority or a few big actors to rewrite the rules at will or dominate the market is how it becomes unfree. And when people attempt to circumvent the rules—by essentially colluding with miners on out-of-band payments, as an example—much of the community is rightly frustrated that said action effectively manipulated the market.

Free markets (or freed markets) require rules and guidelines to maintain as much freedom as possible.