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THE HIGHER LOW
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My new album FREEDOM IN THE DIGITAL AGE is out on Fountain, Wavlake, Spotify & Apple Music. LFG🔥

Merry Christmas, everybody, and try to pick up the Christmas reference from one of my OG songs https://youtu.be/r-vbEOo2x4

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It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

Very true, a lot of work ahead of us to regain freedom in the digital age for us and our kids

GM #bitcoin people, another fantastic day to stay humble, stack sats and keep rocking for the FREEDOM IN THE DIGITAL AGE https://youtu.be/sftpiHltqzk

Nice two weeks in Finland, now back to the Middle East, and #bitcoinmena next week... LFG 🚀

GM from #finland plebs & rockers, tonight the first full-band THL practices with my besties. If you are thinking of a Christmas present for your rock-loving loved one, you can get my latest album FREEDOM IN THE DIGITAL AGE from nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 here (EU-only) https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoininspiredrockalbumbythehigherlow/rewards/view/fda96d43-7aac-4a81-8792-a0aa9df49ad1?hero=thehigherlow DM for global delivery options! LFG🚀

Day 2 at the awesome #bitcoinamsterdam conference, meeting old pleb friends and making new ones. No show this time so just having fun and soaking up the atmosphere. LGF🔥

Nice to be back in Amsterdam. Looking forward to #bitcoinamsterdam tomorrow. LGF🔥

Just had the same 100 THB beef noodles in #bangkok which I had when #bitcoin hit 100k for the first time... And today 100k 🌽 once again 💯

Happy 17th BD #bitcoin whitepaper

GM, another great day to rock hard and use #bitcoin as a tool for freedom in the digital (fiat) age. https://youtu.be/sftpiHltqzk

Howdy, fellow plebs! I did not make it to Lugano #satoshirockamoto this time, but here's my new video, The Cause, filmed in NYC last month. Stack hard and rock hard 🔥. Let me know what you think. https://youtu.be/sftpiHltqzk

Howdy pleb rockers, aiming to release my next video, The Cause, next weekend. You can check the latest one here. https://youtu.be/FzUWMPfYV98 Happy stacking and rocking!

GM, good time to stack sats & rock on

Hello digital freedom fighters in #Helsinki #Finland. My new album vinyl version is now available at the mighty #levykauppaäx store in Kamppi. #bitcoinmusic #bitcoin #digitalfreedom #plebrock https://www.recordshopx.com/artist/higher_low/freedom_in_the_digital_age/

GM from the east, another fantastic day to stay humble, stack sats, and rock on. https://open.spotify.com/album/67uirBkrqWT858pR9Wb1OH

Album out in the wild, first ever full-band show done, by @thehigherlow https://open.substack.com/pub/thehigherlow/p/album-out-in-the-wild-first-ever

Hi nostr:npub1w2eget49s60cyeznumcmqczk0xkmhz24ajqgzfyfrugdfl4mz7ns7rpmgp visitors, my vinly album is on sale at the nostr:nprofile1qqsymrmayr3t54hru0q5w4pfxn6s4pz6j7q60ugsxutajk2ahs0dh8gpzemhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2un9d3shjtnrdakj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctc7vyc59 & nostr:nprofile1qqsf9jl9scw0c5snmkylpfhkppzgd7z7dupul6ms5yl52kfcz9jr8wqpz3mhxue69uhk2mmnw3skwunpd5hxxmmd9uq3xamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvhst943ge book store stand for 21 EUR if you are interested 🔥

Hope to see many of you at my Helsinki album release show on Friday at nostr:nprofile1qqs89v5v46jcd8uzv3f7dudsvpt8ntdm3927eqypyjy37yx5l6a30fcpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucm9wf3kzarjdamxztndv5q36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46qtpm59u afterparty! https://public.orangepillapp.com/event/689c418c5fa84233845a3a24

GM #bitcoin #freedomtech #bitcoinmusic people! Less than three weeks to the launch of my new album, FREEDOM IN THE DIGITAL AGE. You can check the launch video single here. LFG! https://youtu.be/248Zbw1oPnw

Just fimed footage for my upcoming single Freedom Engine in #Thailand, check out current single and ongoing vinyl crowd funding campaign on nostr:nprofile1qqstdhxam7rxw5586xjwscsdj24fqhp93kzsh7xvjg7nnhc7mlh9aecpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap07ew9ug , next show 15 Aug at nostr:npub1w2eget49s60cyeznumcmqczk0xkmhz24ajqgzfyfrugdfl4mz7ns7rpmgp https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoininspiredrockalbumbythehigherlow/

121k #bitcoin freedom money, LFG

GM from #thailand, another fantastic day to stay humble, stack sats and rock on https://youtu.be/248Zbw1oPnw

GM from #khonkaen amazing town in northern Thailand where my day job has an office. Let’s keep building on #bitcoin #freedomtech #bitcoinmusic LFG!

GM from the east #bitcoin & #nostr people

Here’s the first video single, ENHANCER, from my upcoming album FREEDOM IN THE DIGITAL AGE: https://youtu.be/248Zbw1oPnw Check it out and let me know what you think. Also, my nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 vinyl version campaign is live and well here: https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoininspiredrockalbumbythehigherlow