"Banking apps can now read which apps you have installed and also from where.

You installed something they don't like?

Sorry, can't access your money until you stop your wrongthinking.

We are entering the dark ages of technology."

Source: Twitter

"Banking apps can now read which apps you have installed and also from where.

You installed something they don't like?

Sorry, can't access your money until you stop your wrongthinking.

We are entering the dark ages of technology."

Source: Twitter

If you're tempted to whine about the current price, don't.

Complain enough times and you'll start to believe something's wrong.

Then you'll start listening to the haters.

Then you'll start to doubt.

Then you'll sell.

Holding is supposed to be hard. And even little slip ups can lead to failure.

"Withdrawing into technology is like pulling the blankets over your head. It feels good for a while, until reality catches up. The next Clipper or Digital Telephony proposal will provide a rude awakening."

— Hal Finney (Politics vs Technology, 1994)

#politics #warning

“…look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?” #marcusaurelius

In short, this too will pass, so will you, and nothing will repeat itself as it was. Your life is so special that it is only made once. Enjoy it as the gift it was given to you.

#photography #philosophy #mindfulness

Amethyst, yakihonne, nostria, damus

Who controls Bitcoin?

A friend recently told me the reason they don't ALL IN HODL bitcoin is because they are worried that 10 Devs control the protocol "I don't wanna trust 10 devs with all my wealth" they said.

I corrected them (it's a pretty common mistake)

So who really controls bitcoin?

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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.