I need to make an effort to post on nostr more.

Mark Cuban is not a fan of centralized social media algorithms, and has watched Jack's interview about user-chosen algorithms and Nostr.

Buy $200 worth of #Bitcoin each week and everyone tells you how risky it is.

Spend $200 each week for a bottle of alcohol in a club and people will give you fist bumps and tell you how good of a friend you are.

Society programs you to be poor. You gotta find your own way.

Europe has great history of putting people and their assets on lists. nostr:note1mqhs4peesydv39633j0k8r57qdvdwvs9ha3q8f35524wc46t0hjs9jea3w

This is big 🤯

Nostr is not for social media. It's the ENTIRE web 🌐

As the old web drowns in waves of AI generated spam, only Nostr will survive. A web without centralized choke points. A web with authenticity where every note is signed. A web that's machine payable by default.

Buckle up amigos. We're sailing to the new world much faster than I realized. Feeling lucky to be alive to witness and be part of this! 𓅦 🚀 ⚡⛵

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Some people have grown cynical with democracy (and various types of representative government broadly, e.g. including constitutional democratic republics that enshrine certain rights to protect liberty against the masses), viewing this method as promoting short-term leadership with bad incentives.

I have a different take.

Prior to the printing press and then the telegraph and radio, running a democratic society over long distances wasn’t even feasible. The concept of having people democratically participate in their government relies on people being relatively connected information-wise so that they can use their access to information to know what’s happening and to then select between different options, which you couldn’t do across the entirety of a country before people were literate and election materials or other publications could be mass produced. In the pre-press age of handwritten books, making written documents was expensive, and so literacy was a niche skill.

So, that era was ruled by kings and queens, council oligopolies, and so forth. Representative government, to the extent that it existed, only applied to small city states where people could literally gather in a town square, or to “elites” in a capital. There was literally no way to run an election over very broad distances on a regular basis. The printing press helped change that, and then the telegraph, radio, and other tech further reinforced it.

But ironically, as I discuss in Broken Money, those technologies also started to break our money. The printing press and telegraph allowed the transaction layer (the movement of IOUs between individuals and entities) to grow exponentially more efficient both domestically and globally, while our settlement layer (gold) remained basically unchanged. This broadening gap between fast transactions and slow settlements was increasingly bridged with centralization and credit, and the gap eventually became so wide that every nation dropped the settlement layer of gold almost entirely, except as a reserve asset.

So the same technologies that enabled widespread representative government also enabled the proliferation of softer money. Prior to these technologies, broad democracy wasn’t possible. And after these technologies, sound money was too slow to keep up. Oof.

But over a long enough timeframe, our technology became good enough that we finally figured out how to do fast settlements as well. Bitcoin. People can send value to each other quickly over long distances, in ways that no central entity can prevent or reverse, and with a unit that no central entity can debase. The first sound money of the Information Age.

If Bitcoin is successful over the coming decades and becomes a much larger and less volatile money, than it is now, fully entrenched in society, then that would be the first era where technology is at such a state where broad democracy and fast sound money can coexist. Or put more universally, it will be the first era where information spreads quickly without breaking the money, and thus both fast information and good money could coexist.

I, for one, would be curious to see how that develops.

Moderator: What is the next catalyst that will bring the next wave of #bitcoin adoption?

Calle: CBDCs

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Coding faster than the dystopia

PoW we are officially travellers with a hiking problem we did not know we had! 😂😎

And my two based kids went swimming

Oh no, anyway

software should serve you not manipulate you

software should serve you not manipulate you