David Sacks just announced the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve built on civil asset forfeiture – aka ✨stealing✨ – and everyone on X is freaking out

I swear these morons would have cheered on 6102 smh

Sometimes, when I notice I have persistent trolls over months, I take a couple tries to reach out and talk to them.

I try to directly address their issues, and ask what their problem is, or who hurt them.

Like someone who is clearly a human but posts anti-Bitcoin stuff on my threads 193 times. Or who makes fun of my voice 65 times.

Thus far, it has almost never worked out. They just keep going until they burn out. Their views and comments tend to be near-zero anyway. It’s a mental illness issue. And I’m not equipped to handle it.

Kind of like how people throw poop in certain cities, there are people who digitally just parasitically can’t stop clutching to others negatively.

I invite them to do better, hope they recover, but I increasingly learn that dealing with them rationally doesn’t work and I’m not the right one to help with that sort of mental illness.

Get connected with your local meetup crowd.

The bitcoin citadel concept is basically a cypherpunk version of an Amish order. We even have deliberate technology use rules like preferring e2ee, protocols over platforms, and self hosting.

Order = Citadel

English = NPC

I'm sure other concepts map directly as well if I thought about it more.

gm

I'm completely mindblown that getting ~80% of the way to a decentralized, anonymous bounty marketplace on nostr took less than a day of work.

I've been an application developer for about 15 years and the only "platform" that even came close to this level of efficiency and speed-to-market was Urbit - which had a pile of other flaws, with new user barrier-to-entry being at the top of the list.

When I'm done with this, anyone will be able to easily and permissionlessly create a keypair and start posting bounties or working on them, handling payments with soverieign and private Lightning payments.

I didn't have to ask for permission, sign up for anything, or deal with needlessly complex hosting or build pipelines - nor will a finished version require _me_ to custody any user data. (Of course, this also means I won't be making any money directly from it)

This is unprecedented and tragically undervalued.

GM & PV fellow nostriches ☕️🌞 Wishing everybody a great & successful day 🫂💜🧡

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