One thing that I’m excited to work on into the new year is a project I’m calling “Altcoin 101.” Before you make assumptions, let me explain.

Something I’ve always tried to stay true to is to not hate what you don’t know. No matter what it is. In that same regard, I am going to be doing deep dives into various shitcoins on an intelectual and fundamental level with the view of them being a solution to a Bitcoin problem and disproving that.

This idea came from an Uber ride where the driver was fairly knowledgeable about Bitcoin (relatively), but thought that there was a scaling issue, and thus came to the conclusion that XRP was the solution. He had never heard of Lightning and was very open to learn about it. I was able to help him understand Lightning to a degree, but was not able to disprove any of his XRP claims. We have created a relationship and I’m going to keep working to move him over.

I want to share this research with you all as I conduct it so it gives you a ground to argue against shitcoins without just saying “they’re not Bitcoin so they’re bad.”

For the last 5 years, I have reviewed the list I made 5 years ago, of all the sectors of my life I want to move further into independent sovereignty, and have tried to move each area further toward that goal.

Things like:

Power

Water

Waste

Food

Cooking

Heat

Computing

Communication

Transportation

Defense

I don't get so obsessive that I cant have fun, and be flexible.

But I have a sub-process in my brain thinking about this stuff and looking for patterns almost all the time.

I try to do something each day that advances at least one front further away from a dependency system.

I don't think most of the people around me fully grasp just how seriously ive been taking this stuff for the last 5 years, or why.

That is fine. I dont share much unless directly asked, and I am not looking for others opinions. But some people are starting to take notice and ask questions about how they might move in this direction.

I have a feeling that this year I may start to break through to new levels, and I may start to see if some of my choices have been as wise as I have hoped.

Are you really asking me to convince you why you don’t want a dystopian super power seeing your every thought and having complete authority over you?

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 🫂💜🤙🏻

Bitcoin and Nostr are hope for the future of the world. It's hard for most to comprehend this and to think about the other 8 billion people that have different living circumstances than they do. More will realize the importance of this freedom technology in the coming new year. Keep building.

Not yet. Requires a federation invite code and we're using that right now for private testing. Though anyone can spin up a federation and send out invite codes to their federation. We expect that to happen more in the coming weeks and months.

If it defunds the government's Fiat, it is.

GM and GN #nostr

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#หมอบ่นfiat

#healthstr

#health

#IFF

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Frens can you help? ...where can I view statistics, #Bitcoin nodes, Bitcoin nodes per country, and miners per country? 🙏

==== To The Governments & People of Earth: ====

We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it.

We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We

merely wish to be left alone.

All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a

long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we

could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to

stop. That has now changed.

We no longer see any benefit in working through the world?s systems. At some

point, working within a system becomes cowardly and immoral; for us, that

point has arrived.

Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to

restrict, restrain and punish us. We hereby reject them all. We hereby

withdraw from them all. We hold the ruling states of this world and all that

appertains to them to be self-serving and opposed to humanity.

We now withdraw our obedience and reclaim the right to strike back when

struck. We will not initiate force, but we do reserve the right to answer it.

We did not choose this ? it was forced upon us.

==== To The Governments of Earth: ====

You are building cages for all that is human. In the name of protection, you

have intruded into all areas of human life, far exceeding the reach of any

Caesar. You claim ultimate control of our property and our decisions, of our

travels and even our identities. You claim ownership of humanity far beyond

the dreams of any Emperor of any previous era.

Understand clearly: We reject your authority and we reject your legitimacy. We

do not believe that you have any right to do the things you do. You have

massive power, but no right to impose it upon us and no legitimacy. We have

forsaken you. We are no longer your citizens or your subjects.

Your systems are inherently anti-human, even if all their operators are not.

We are not merely angry young people. We are fathers and mothers; aunts,

uncles and grandparents; we are business owners and trusted employees; we are

mechanics and engineers and farmers. We are nurses and accountants and

students and executives.

We are on every continent.

This is not a burst of outrage; this is a sober declaration that we no longer

accept unearned suffering as our role in life.

For long decades we sat quietly, hoping that things would turn around. We took

no actions; we suffered along with everyone else. But after having our limits

pushed back again and again, we have given up on your systems.

If our fellow inhabitants of this planet wish to accept your rule, they are

free to do so.

We will not try to stop them. We, however, will no longer accept your

constraints upon us.

- - From now on, when you hurt us, we will bite back. If you leave us alone we

will leave you alone and you can continue to rule your subjects. We are happy

to live quietly. But if you come after us, there will be consequences.

You caused this because of your fetish for control and power. The chief men

and women among you are pathologically driven to control everyone and

everything that moves upon this planet. You have made yourselves the judge of

every human activity. No god-king of the ancient world ever had the power that

your systems do.

You have created a world where only the neutered are safe and where only

outlaws are free.

==== To The People of Earth: ====

We seek nothing from you. We do not want to rule you and we do not want to

control you.

All we wish is to live on earth in peace. As always, we will be helpful

neighbors and generous acquaintances. We will remain honest business partners

and trustworthy employees. We will continue to be loving parents and

respectful children.

We will not, however, be sacrificial animals. We reject the idea that others

have a right to our lives and our property. We will not demand anything from

you, and we will no longer acquiesce to any demands upon us. We have left that

game. We reject all obligations to any person or organization beyond honesty,

fair dealing and a respect for human life.

We will shortly explain what we believe, but we are not demanding that you

agree with us. All we ask is that you do not try to stop us. Continue to play

the game if you wish; we will not try to disrupt it. We have merely walked

away from it.

We wish you peace.

==== To Those Who Will Condemn Us: ====

We will ignore you.

We welcome and seek the verdict of a just God, before whom we are willing to

expose our innermost thoughts. Are you similarly willing?

We would stand openly before all mankind if it were not suicidal. Perhaps some

day we will have to accept slaughter for our crime of independence, but not

yet.

Your criticism and your malice are much deeper than mere disagreements of

strategy or philosophy. You do not oppose our philosophy, you oppose our

existence. Our presence in the world means that your precious ideals are

false. Some of you would rather kill us than face the loss of your ideologies,

just as those like you have either hated or killed every sufficiently

independent human.

You present yourselves to the world as compassionate, tolerant and

enlightened, but we know that your smooth words are costumes. Oh yes, we know

you, servant of the state; don?t forget, we were raised with you. We played

with you in the schoolyard, we sat next to you in the classroom. Some of us

studied at the same elite universities. We watched as you had your first

tastes of power. We were the boys and girls standing next to you.

Some of us were your first victims. We are not fooled by your carefully

crafted public image.

==== What We Believe ====

#1: Many humans resent the responsibilities that are implied by consciousness.

We accept those responsibilities and we embrace consciousness. Rather than

letting things happen to us (avoiding consciousness), we accept

consciousness and choose to act in our own interest.

We do not seek the refuge of blaming others, neither do we take refuge in

crowds. We are willing to act on our personal judgment, and we are willing

to accept the consequences thereof.

#2: We believe in negative rights for all: That all humans should be free to

do whatever they wish, as long as they do not intrude upon others; that no

man has a right to the life, liberty or property of another; that we oppose

aggression, fraud and coercion.

#3: We do not believe that our way of life, or any other, will make life

perfect or trouble-free. We expect crime and disagreements and ugliness, and

we are prepared to deal with them. We do not seek a strongman to step in and

solve problems for us.

We agree to see to them ourselves.

#4: We believe in free and unhindered commerce. So long as exchanges are

voluntary and honest, no other party has a right to intervene ? before,

during or after.

#5: We believe that all individuals should keep their agreements.

#6: We believe that honestly obtained property is fully legitimate and

absolute.

#7: We believe that some humans are evil and that they must be faced and dealt

with. We accept the fact that this is a difficult area of life.

#8: We believe that humans can self-organize effectively. We expect them to

cooperate. We reject impositions of hierarchy and organization.

#9: We believe that all humans are to be held as equals in all matters

regarding justice.

#10: We believe that the more a man or woman cares about right and wrong, the

more of a threat he or she is perceived to be by governments.

#11: We believe that there are only two true classes of human beings: Those

who wish to exercise power upon others ? either directly or through

intermediaries ? and those who have no such desires.

#12: Large organizations and centralization are inherently anti-human. They

must rely upon rules rather than principles, treating humans within the

organization as obedient tools.

==== Our Plans: ====

We are building our own society. We will supplement traditional tools with

networking, cryptography, sound money, digital currency and anonymous

messaging. Our society will not be centrally controlled. It will rely solely

on voluntary arrangements.

We welcome others to join us. We are looking for people who are independent

creators of value, people who act more than talk, and people who do the right

thing because it is the right thing.

We will develop our own methods of dealing with injustice, built on the

principles of negative rights, restitution, integrity and equal justice.

We do not forbid anyone from having one foot in each realm ? ours and the old

realm - although we demand that they do no damage to our realm. We are fully

opposed to any use of our realm to facilitate crime in the old realm, such as

the hiding of criminal proceeds.

We expect to be loudly condemned, libeled and slandered by the authorities of

the old regime. We expect them to defend their power and their image of

legitimacy with all means available to them. We expect that many gullible and

servile people will believe these lies, at least at first.

We will consider traps laid for us to be criminal offenses.

Any who wish to join us are encouraged to distribute this declaration, to act

in furtherance of our new society, to voluntarily excel in virtues and to

communicate and cooperate with other members of the new society.

Free, unashamed men cannot be ruled.

We are The Free and The Unashamed.

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