Dorks unite. ✊🏻

Listening to “What Technology Wants” by Kevin Kelly right now. I had always been on team “Bitcoin was invented”, but now I’m leaning towards “Bitcoin was discovered”.

Of course, the specific parameters of Bitcoin were selected by Satoshi, like the 10 minute block time, the 2 week difficulty readjustment period, the 21 million supply cap, the 4-year halving cycle etc.

But it may have been inevitable that someone would figure out proof-of-work consensus, marry it to a native token, and use these to maintain an immaculate, immutable, public transaction ledger.

nostr should be the place to discuss everything, especially what’s found on Twitter and other networks. No bounds.

Thought experiment: a world in which the main gage of success is the clarity of one’s conscience not how much wealth one has acquired.

I think it's too easy for people on Twitter to bubble up into an echo chamber. I like Reddit where I can invade spaces where they need to hear the message and can't keep me out.

Sometimes I REALLY feel like deleting twiddler and becoming a Nostr maxi. However we can spread the message and reach more people on Twitter. Thoughts? #grownostr

I think I'm the first (but not the last) to mention nostr on an earnings call...

I still believe one of the worst nostr feelings is accidentally liking your own post. Feels bad.

There are only bad dad jokes. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

It’s true. #theMoreYouKnow💫

おはよう🌞☕️

Seems like the banking snow ball is accelerating.

The weird thing I notice about some of the people who state they are most opposed to identity politics, is how ironically -- and seemingly unknowingly -- they are enmeshed in extreme forms of it.

If your personal identity is tied to a belief system of any kind, and you consider attacks on that belief system to be a personal attack. And, you tend to constrain your personal relationships to people who share that belief system, you are simply part of identity politics. That is what identity politics is.

It doesn't really matter what the belief system is: if it's progressive or "woke" politics. Or right-wing populist politics. Or even if it's categories like bitcoiner vs nocoiner -- if your personal behavior, and community behaviors fit the definition I laid out in the second paragraph, then you are participating in identity politics.

And yes, identity politics is pretty bad for anything resembling a functioning pluralistic society.