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GeoFitz
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Passionate about Bitcoin and the Mysteries of the Universe

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I had a friend who worked in a conventional fiat bank and became disgusted during a meeting discussing ā€œwallet shareā€ā€”where banks aim to dominate your entire financial life. This practice, aiming to consolidate all your financial dealings with one institution, turned his stomach. It’s a stark reminder of how oppressive these systems can be, ensnaring us in their clutches.

#Bitcoin offers an antidote to this. By allowing us to store our wealth in a cryptographically secure, self-controlled space, we reclaim power. If pursued by authorities, we hold the keys, not them. This shift is monumental in reclaiming our financial autonomy.

#ilovebitcoin

I liked the livestream nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqngza3a did on Monday

You called out for a few early adopters to test the new loan service on strike

I would love to volunteer please šŸ™Œ

I highly recommend this podcast #thetelepathytapes

It really is an outstanding deep dive into the subject

https://open.spotify.com/show/1zigaPaUWO4G9SiFV0Kf1c?si=9RrXqIc0QFOjD4oZyQKXKA

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Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. ā€œKeep Austin Weirdā€ feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

I love this point you make….

ā€œreduced to Instagrammable momentsā€

This is killing irl culture imo

Nostr has the vibes no doubt….. but we are in the world too…. I’d love to see the vibes of Nostr actually ā€˜Stand Up’ in the real world too

Aha, I can agree with that. It’s like an ok average movie… yes certainly

It’s no Matrix that’s for sure….

And Oscar’s and Hollywood I’ll bet has a shadow side to it…. No doubt!!

I can’t help loving movies and cinema though…..

What did you not like about it? Sincere question. I love movies…. Saw this yesterday and thought it was good enough. Not amazing but worthwhile at least…..

I could change my mind if I am missing something though šŸ‘

You can stamp a bitcoin seed on metal too!! šŸ‘

Is #bitcoin the Supreme example of ā€œonce you truly see a thing you can NEVER unsee it?ā€

#GM