IF YOU CARE ABOUT NOSTR BEING CENSORSHIP RESISTANT YOU SHOULD TYPE IN CAPS.

I remember the same discussions in the early days of the internet. Time will tell, in the meanwhile I will rather spend my time with likeminded people on NOSTR.

X will start shitcoining again, I than I rather build up my network here.

Human ingenuity will figure it out.

For some reason I can’t see this linked conversation, but what is the conclusion?

Raw milk: 15k sats

Maple syrup: 70k sats

Eating a bowl of cereal paid for in freedom coins to my fellow freedom loving farmers: Priceless

I think that Bitcoin Magazine and David Bailey have lost the plot with their pivot to focusing so much on inscriptions and other non-monetary uses of Bitcoin. I think it's a huge distraction and a bad look, and not something that I want to be associated with. No Nashville 2024 for me, sorry.

Someone privately asked me why I am wasting my time refuting the hyperbitcoinization narrative. They suggested that if I’m right, it doesn’t matter in the end. They also suggested this represents an unnecessary argument *within* the bitcoin conversation.

One, I don’t feel like I’m wasting my time at all. Because my goal isn’t even to convince people who hold the view that hyperbitcoinization is inevitable. In fact, given their predilection for simple, self-consistent narratives and their tendency to dismiss my attempts as nuance as a “lack of critical thinking skills”, I don’t actually expect to convince them of anything. But I do want to debate them, if for no other reason than I can test the strength of my own ideas. Which for me, is pretty important to being intellectually honest with one’s self. Alas, it does not surprise me that they refuse the opportunity of debate. Because, well, you can guess where I’m going.

The audience for things like this are always the unconvinced. The people who are coming to bitcoin for the first time and trying to make sense of it. I seek to give them a theory of bitcoin I think makes sense, and steers it towards its potential. That focuses people on believable use cases, that will hopefully, on balance direct research and development into more productive products and ideas.

Also, I am just generally fascinated by people who think they have everything figured out, and can smugly claim that something in the future is “inevitable”. I’ve never thought anything about the future is inevitable. To me, the future is an epistemic fog-of-war. The fact some people think they see it with overwhelming clarity (even in the narrow issue of money and markets) by playing forward some theory from a first principles foundation, says to me something about human nature that, quite frankly, I see as the seeds of fanaticism at worst, and sophistry at best.

As for the worry that I’m trying to create unnecessary discord within the bitcoin conversation, this just offends my intellectual and truth-seeking sensibilities. If I think something is wrong, and I feel strongly enough about it that I want to say something about it, then I’m going to. I don’t know what to tell you. Suggesting that it’s counterproductive to engage in a debate against a relatively popular strain of thought, in a field I work in, that I think is wrong, is just bizarre to me.

It’s the anti-intellectual golem showing up again.

Discord is a Balkanizing shit-hole.

Yet another centralized permissioned platform where information goes to be segregated and forgotten.

I would like to zap you for thank you but your zaps are off?

Sort it! :)

Dear America,

Half & half ≠ cream.

Stop ruining my coffee with it.

How exactly are we degrading bitcoin? Genuinely asking.

I’m not being pessimistic at all, lol. If it reads like that then it’s either just missing tone or is poorly worded. I literally am just curious on how people think we will adapt and what the new environment will look like. I for one love all the shit I can make with Ai, but it’s really fascinating to think what it could mean when generating basically anything has such an incredibly low barrier, that the idea of the open internet kinda doesn’t make sense anymore.

I certainly don’t think Ai is going to kill us all or make good content disappear. To the contrary, this is revolutionary for great content and human flourishing. But that will definitely come with enormous change. My musings are about how that change will unfold. 😁

A good reason to avoid the internet

That’s an amazing looking location. Excited for this episode

Most annoying thing about English accent is that "parse" sounds exactly like "pass".

I have to use an american accent every time for this.

Proof of Pattys 🤘🏻

I’m trying to convince my locals to move along. What do you suggest for group chats? Needs to be moderated to deal with occasional scammers.