But then there’s no cultural identity, and that makes Larry Fink a bitcoiner… which I disagree with.

I don’t think “uses Bitcoin” as a means to any end, when often those ends conflict, makes someone a bitcoiner.

There was a cultural foot print in the white paper, addressing the root issue, therefore the people who are causing the root issue to deepen, and trying to centralize bitcoin to capture / co-opt / control, cannot be bitcoiners, even though they are using the tool (for evil).

What does that mean for the statist? Whether republican or democrat, who believe in the lesser evil?

Are they no longer Bitcoiners?

Even if they save in it or spend it?

There’s no such thing as being a bitcoiner beyond some common values about money.

Some are cynical, some relentlessly optimistic, some build, some tear down at every corner, some do both!

Some are libertarians, some are statists, some are confused in between.

Some are Christians, some are Jews, some are neither (atheist).

Some want riches and the Bitcoin dollar, they don’t care about a social credit system, as long as they get rich - while others want private payments and don’t care about the riches at all.

What we all seem to agree on, is that the money is fucked and it is the highest order of priorities, as everything else is downstream of this (monopoly on law, violence, communications).

What other common ground do we all share?

#asknostr

GM nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m & nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

Time to sign off for the day.

Potentially forgive my ignorance here Rabble, but didn’t you recently create a bot or client where you flag hate speech or censor?

Test comment, is this thing on? 😂💀

Where does one acquire this hoody?

I’m not sure, I never did their course. I paid stupid amounts of money to learn what I could have learnt for free elsewhere.

Try it and let me know 🫡

Yes he is! 🤝

I just realized you were probably referencing Wasabi specifically.. right? 😅💀

The brother nostr:npub1s9etjgzjglwlaxdhsveq0qksxyh6xpdpn8ajh69ruetrug957r3qpklxzl is making a generic FOSS version of Pleb Devs:

https://plebdevs-three.vercel.app

And stripping it back, so we can all fork it and have our own NOSTR 🤝 Next.js platform with Bitcoin integrated for educational purposes.

I’d like to take this, repurpose it with education from nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf & I, make it so you can have e-commerce (merch) and also multi-sig (BitPac, Bitcoin Keeper) backup keys & signing services, or inheritance planning, without having to rely on normies from the fiat clown world who don’t get it.

It will be cool if we can rope in a friend of Erik’s so that we can add FROST (DKG) for the multi-sig side of things too, perhaps it will help solve NOSTRs key privs, rotation and degradation issues.

We reached out to nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx & nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f to gauge whether or not he could get a grant from this. What do you think nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt ? Good idea?

Hahaha I fucking loved this.

NOSTR, this anti-state free speech tool where all we currently use it for is say GM to the homies…

GM!

“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are [clown world], and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are [Bitcoin 🤝 NOSTR 🤝 honoring the social contract]” - St Augustine [with my 2 sats].

This quote is from nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m's new book ‘The Bushido Of Bitcoin’, to kick off the section about courage.

I’m really enjoying this book, and I’m really excited to do something courageous this year with the brother nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf. I have a lot of hope for my family, friends and future generations generally.

For the first 5 years of being in Bitcoin, I thought it was going to be incredibly dangerous, that the state would have noticed that ‘We the people’ have not only figured out that fiat is their ‘ring of power’, and we are going to destroy it, but they seemingly haven’t yet and now the Trojan horse is now inside the city walls, while they’re busy buying wBTC (lol).

It took 3 years further to come out of my shell further, and now I know, the state is retarded and doomed (for now), they will figure out the game sooner or later. Regardless of when, fiat, their ring, is about to meet its destruction, as we hurdle towards the end of the long term debt cycle. It [the state, an amalgamation of evil, injustice, centralization and corruption] will be back, in some way, but without the monopoly on money, it will struggle to retain a monopoly on violence. So I suspect it will largely be defanged, but like any wild animal backed into a corner, it could get ugly, but given its retardation, I suspect it will be smoother and far less confrontational than I initially imagined. Fear was the mind killer, and it was all in my head.

Welcome, as a developer, what do you think about joining a protocol with dumb servers and smart interoperable clients?

I tried to send you some sovereign money, but it looks like you haven’t set that up yet. Sing out if you have any questions by using #asknostr 🤝

My autism won’t let me say it’s not 😅 money is whatever two or more parties agree on as a medium of exchange, it’s limitless on what could be money.

Now whether that’s a good money is another conversation.

Yeah, that’s a good point.

On a pyramid too 😂 c’mon!

Isn’t that an Illuminati symbol (Phoenix) & ideological reference “order from chaos”?

If you don’t talk about Palantirian crypto : Bitcoin play, how that intersects with ‘the Bitcoin dollar’, PayPal mafia & Tether - I will be disappointed.

Also, given orange man is back, touch on Q - is that bullshit Operation Trust 2.0 or what?

You were the one that came to visit Erik / Rockstar at the house in Madeira right?

For some reason, you were saying something about Nemo saying anemone?

Please tell me I have the right person 😂💀