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Bowtied Peasant
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Decentralisation, self-sufficiency, self-sovereignty.

Goals for my week:

- Orange-pill two mates

- Purple-pill two more

- Spend more quality time with wife & kids

- Invoice my clients (it's silly, but I find doing the work easier than invoicing sometimes...)

- Plant some more trees

What does your week look like?

Thoughts on this? Found it pretty persuasive. China has been accumulating gold for years, and their (or Russia's) adoption of the gold standard would be more damaging to the US than any war:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/golds-imminent-return-money

GM notriches! Hope everyone starts their week with energy and enthusiasm.

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Might suffice just to add a warning: a QR code is probably safe if people are only scanning from a wallet (not a QR code reader) and also checking that it's not an invoice - but in a rush I don't know if everyone will do that.

Might want to be careful with this: encouraging people to hastily scan QR codes can be as bad as encouraging them to click unknown links in emails!

Roald Dahl is being given the make-over by 'sensitivity readers'. So what? they're only childrens' books - right? But the desire to rewrite books is yet another form of ideological purity, which points in the same direction as outright censorship: totalitarian control and punishment of wrong-think.

JP sadly has taken a dislike to anonymous accounts - presumably as he's so often trolled by them from the Left. But he's clearly well aware of the importance of free speech. I'm sure he can reconcile these two positions to himself, but would like to see him recent the former.

Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

Consider,

Twitter could've implemented lightning tips, or honestly payments of literally any kind YEARS ago. But they didn't. Why?

#Nostr on the other hand has accomplished this in no time, and everyone who has experienced it immediately feels what a big deal this is... but why exactly?

Numerous features implemented in Nostr could've been on Twitter all this time.

• Do you think it's because they didn't want to?

• Was it too technically difficult, even though Nostriches pulled it off in a matter of days or weeks?

Of course not, it was POLITICALLY infeasible. Remember how Facebook spent *years* and bookoos of capital trying to create a *whole new currency* just to enable it because there was no chance of doing it with dollars? They were even dragged before Congress to explain why they would do such a thing as enable payments on social media! How dare they! It was easily squashed despite the fact that the list of those backing it was essentially a Who's Who of Silicon Valley fintech.

And what did the Twitter Files teach us? That not only would the suffocating regulatory environment make tips and payments on social media virtually impossible, but the political leviathan refused to even allow them to freely TWEET to their followers! Intelligence agencies were both *funding* social censorship & had direct communication channels to shut down people's accounts, shadow ban, & ensure that "unapproved" opinions simply can't travel through the network.

Like @#[0] said, "this has the power to monetize dissent." Consider the insane power of sharing an "unapproved" opinion to millions of people and being directly rewarded with 1000s, maybe 10s of thousands of private, instant payments while the post has unfiltered, free flow to every last user in the network.

No more "donation services" or "patreons" that take 10% and will preemptively shut down anything remotely against the establishment. No more Go fund Me's fuck stealing millions going to protestors to donate to a "charity of their choice." They are all immediately redundant & pointless.

Instead we are walking into a world with unfiltered, free flowing information and unfiltered free flowing money.

The simple fact is that no large, centralized social platform of any kind CAN do what Nostr does so easily. Because they have a gun to their head & they know it.

This is the 10x value add that is going to wake people up, and it's going to start with ALL the dissenters. We need to find all of them and bring them here.

The simple ability to have direct access to millions of followers, and be able receive payments and tips from them directly, unfiltered, untaxed, with no middle man & no authority whatever involved...

They are afraid as FUCK of that power. And they absolutely should be. Think of what a staggering problem the mere existence of someone like Joe Rogan has presented in the past couple of years. Now consider they attacked him through his network, his advertisers, his payment processors, and a huge targeted propaganda campaign (and fucking LOST despite, 🤣). Now think about the 1000s of others we watched get attacked, banned, deplatformed, canceled, etc...

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Now imagine the past 3 years done over again, except without any of that being possible anymore...

Guys, we are right in the fucking middle of the revolution. It's right now.

⚡⚡🔥🔥

🎯 Spot on. But we mustn't be complacent. Governments *will* look for weak points to shut this down - eg doxed devs, known relay operators or ways to trace payments back to known wallets. This platform is censorship-resistant but not always private, and we must stay hyper-vigilant for weakmesses.

Covid petrified many; there were great numbers utterly convinced that those not taking the Vax were selfish and putting others' lives in danger. (the same people were also likely to overestimate mortality by at least an order of magnitude). Shamefully, the government also falsely portrayed the protestors as racists and white supremacists - so making it a political issue where many saw the protestors as dispicable individuals who didn't deserve fundamental rights. Of course, whenever such things happens, people never conceive that the powers they give to government might one day be used against them, too.

Key q: wil it compete or complement nostr?

It allows algorithmic selection, right?

For those who missed it: a Canadian enquiry announced yesterday that the government *was* justified in freezing the bank accounts of truckers - and those donating to them. This is a hugely dangerous precedent, and underscores why Bitcoin is so important.

https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/

It's great. Just hope the key devs watch their backs: when the protocol becomes a thorn in the side of corporates and governments, those will be the people they come after.