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Hello Frens,

I have finally finished my book:

Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin

I wanted to share some preliminary digital copies with those that would be willing to share some feedback (4 to 6 sentence blurb).

I must warn before hand that it’s quite esoteric and is a gathering of my previously published works modified to fit into a larger metaphysical presentation.

Cryptosovereignty I hope will be a foundational work to my larger metaphysical approach to Bitcoin, which I think I will call the general theory of Bitcoin, but we will see.

I also want to do a limited podcast series coving each chapter of the book with someone who has read a specific chapter and we will have a long discussion dissecting and unpacking it (there is a lot of that to be done).

If you have any interest in reading it, providing feedback, or even in doing a pod w/ me in the future around a specific chapter, please let me know. Just shoot me a DM with a good email I can send you a PDF.

Thank you all for your support, and I hope this book will help further facilitate deep thinking about Bitcoin.

As of today the Bitcoin network has been operational for a decade without a consensus failure. Shout out to the developers who have maintained the quality of the software and thus the integrity of the network!

In case anybody outside the UK is unaware of this (which you almost certainly are, which is kind of the point) a journalist named Isabel Oakeshott signed an NDA with with Matt Hunt, who was the UK Health Security during early covid hysteria, to help him write a book, then breached the NDA and leaked ~100k WhatsApp messages to the press. The messages show - entirely unsurprisingly - that the UK government didn’t have a fucking clue what it was doing, then amidst all the lying and smearing to justify lockdowns, started lying and smearing to cover it all up as well.

Not that this in itself should be news to anybody, but two things stand out: i) there’s now undeniable proof in the public record of everything that has been a “conspiracy theory” for 3 years, and ii) the mainstream media is flat out embarrassing itself in a hilariously tone deaf way by giving precisely zero shits about the actual story and pretending that the “news” here is the breach of the NDA.

Absolutely nobody is buying it. It’s all very cathartic. Nature is healing ☺️

But seriously, for a less naive take consider that this all feeds into the increasingly undeniable realisation that state control of information dissemination was key to the catastrophe. The Muskificiation of twitter may be a very slight reprieve - and one that makes the regime shit itself much more than it really ought to because it has no idea how anything actually works - but if they understood nostr even a little the level of self-shitting would be off the charts 🙏

The hero this epoch need.

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Do you realize just how much of a bargain Nostr is? You pay relays a one time fee and never see ads, there is no risk of your email or phone number leaking and you can't get cancelled.

Way better deal than being the product.

A marketplace on Nostr, especially one that's built in clients, would skyrocket our circular economy. There's now a bounty to build one.

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Wow! Thank you #[1] !

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Remember when everyone was wearing a mask?

#pseudoscience #compliance #control #fearmongering #psyops

Nostr is proving what I have been saying about Twitter for years; if they integrate Bitcoin they will be the worlds biggest “Financial Institution” ever; the biggest bank with no money, with the greatest number of clients with no accounts, the biggest bank with no branches, money or staff. It could still change everything. Sadly, Elon thinks money is some sort of weird joke. I’m not sure why, and I don’t care much; bigger things are coming.

Exactly one year ago I went to the Lightning Hack Days in Istanbul. I've met other Bitcoin devs for the first time in my life in meat space there. My life has completely changed ever since.

I'm very greatful for every person I've meet on this path and all the incredible projects that I was able to work on so far. I truly am. Working on open source software has always been a dream. Being able to do that in Bitcoin is something that brings me immense fulfillment.

I fundamentally believe that what we're doing here will have a disproportionate positive impact on the world of the future. We might be wrong about some things, we might be right about others. But what we have - without a doubt - is pure and honest passion. Pura vida, you beautiful bastards.

We refuse to accept custodial, KYC'd, permissioned, and surveilled wallets as the norm.

There's a better way. We're building it.