So I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a new book in preparation for a podcast we’ll be recording, and all I can say is get ready people! My god get ready...
If you can’t understand the value prop of Bitcoin after reading this book, you’ll never get it. The best part, she doesn’t even discuss bitcoin until chapter 20. 🤣
Mark my words, it’ll be a landmark classic that generations will reference. It's insanely thorough but also very accessible considering the complexity of the material that’s covered.
I think she plans to have it punished very soon (within a month or two), so watch-out for it! It’s the ultimate orange pilling device for people that are intellectually curious.
Yeah we are ready to be punished
I agree that Twitter is not a public square but nowadays more like a public surveillance toilet. However, Bitcoiners should be well spread all over the internet. We should be relentless in our message also in Fakebook, LinkedIn, and the rest of the mainstream platforms.
Because there’s people willing to hear the truth somewhere, they just happen to be in the wrong channels at the moment.
How can you have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat? 📢
Don’t sell your stack to BlackRock when they come into the game.
Word. You shouldn’t sell your stack to them at any point!
#self-custody 
Disclaimer: For guitar nerds. Awaiting some rainy and windy Norwegian summer weather I brought some guitar and studio stuff to our summer cabin, playing loud a 90s Oasis classic The Fender Bassman with Fryette Powerstation and a 70s Gibson SG does the trick.
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/9goz.mp3
Nice Elektron stuff there too ;)
Yeah what a trilemma, you should allow yourself to pick two options.
The fact that so many influencers who are vocal anti-CBDC immediately complied with twitter identity verification and continue to defend their decision is an incredibly interesting case study on the human condition.
Important to learn from all of this so we can better prepare for what comes next.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1683177394532655105/pu/vid/1240x700/Q_5aqzQRiV1PfKBU.mp4
Half of the world’s financial system? Yeah sure, this guy thinks he can pull a Chinese app out of his hat but the western world will not roll with it unless we succumb to the elites.
X more like my ex.
Makes you wonder if things will ever change. Thus the importance of faith. And hope.
So nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx gave an absolute masterclass on the problems with Musk's current Twitter approach on WBD, starting at the 17m mark. It's a great advertisement for Nostr and I recommend everyone watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ms-dE6aasA
I've been retweeting or reposting Odell's various observations on this topic for a while and so I'm happy to share this too, including on Twitter today, even as a filthy blue-check myself.
Where I disagree with Odell (slightly) is on tactics. He thinks people should give up blue checks in protest. And that's a very fair position. I don't disagree, especially for someone like Odell with a purist position and a generally cypherpunk audience.
But I think there are multiple successful paths on this. I have always been a Twitter fan, and my normie audience is there. I wanted to be able to pay for better UX and anti-impersonation defenses for years before they became available. Just because Musk is running it doesn't mean I won't pay for helpful services, especially if they protect my audience. Real people lose money to Lyn Alden impersonation scams if they can't tell my account from others, and I directly hear from them when it happens. It's always heartbreaking.
So, I'm on the offensive, not the defensive. The way I view it, unless or until someone censors me on Twitter, they're locked in there with me, rather than me being locked in there with them. If having a blue check reduces the success rate of impersonation scams and amplifies my reach at calling out Twitter's problems, I'll have the blue check. What I absolutely *won't* do is change what I say based on a blue check. If anything, I purposely overdo it to the opposite and exaggerate my criticisms on purpose to push back against platform incentives.
Two simultaneous approaches:
1) Call out the problem on Twitter. Don't give Musk a pass. Point out that a pro-freedom, pro-anonymity view doesn't match with what is going on there. Don't let his rhetoric disguise his inaction. If Twitter cares about freedom and anonymity then they will offer a paid option that doesn't require identity (e.g. the "orange check" bitcoin payment.) Until something like that, they are LARPing and are fair to criticize as such.
2) Have your foot here on Nostr and on decentralization technologies generally. In the long run, I think this is the future. And more importantly, I hope it is.
Filthy blue-check 😅
