The sad truth is that most people have spent their entire lives being conditioned to simply obey, and to resist thinking.

Doesn’t matter what or who it is: stoplights, signs, announcements, strangers, someone ‘official’ looking, or just another human; most people just want someone or something to listen to so they don’t have to take responsibility to think for themselves. Thinking demands responsibility, the capacity to be correct or incorrect, the existential angst of what it means to decide on the nature of things, and what it means if you are right or wrong.

We have been trained most of our lives to eschew this responsibility and allow for others to tell us ‘what is right’ without considering for a moment if these are people we should listen to, or if they even have the cognitive capacity to actually think, rather than just do what they are told.

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And what would #nostr use this space for?

Which 8?

Can’t hit “sell” if you can’t access your brokerage account.

I just had one of the most serendipitous, fortuitous events happen EVER on one of our film shoots.

Earlier today, my partner and I had a flight cancellation in NYC while shooting a documentary about what it means to be a bitcoiner.

Naturally, we went on the Orange Pill App @orangepillapp to see if any bitcoiners could help us out - as we were well over our documentary budget and needed a place to stay since the earliest flight rebooking was 2 days later.

After just 45 minutes of posting the message, @HODLhuddle gets in touch and offers her place to us.

Turns out - she joined Orange Pill App just *8 HOURS* or so earlier this same day by sheer coincidence, all because she happened to ALSO stumble upon our latest documentary (without knowing we were the same stranded filmmakers/creators), which reminded her of the bitcoiners she had met in New York at @PubKey_NYC.

Now, we're staying at her place until our next flight - and this entire encounter is fundamentally changing the story of our documentary as we live through the unexpected generosity and hospitality of a member of the bitcoin community in real time.

TL;DR - Bitcoin is much bigger than money. There are forces beyond our perception that bring us together ♥️

Wow, I’ve not lived enough I’ve only done 21 of these 😳😜

How many have you done?

#asknostr

The capstone is Monero.

You are still stuck on what is literally a fedcoin.

Most people who I know that think the CIA invented bitcoin, are not very familiar with the pre-history of Bitcoin including work by Back, Szabo, Finney, etc.

I'm not saying that certainly no intelligence agency created Bitcoin, but rather, I'm very skeptical of the certainty that many people have around that topic.

Because, when you are somewhat familiar with that pre-history and look at it from an engineering perspective, you can clearly see the pieces gradually falling into place. In the1980s there was work by Chaum about how to build a database run by mutually suspicious entities. In the 1990s there was work by Back for proof-of-work. As things moved into the 2000s, there was Szabo's Bit Gold, which is very similar to what Bitcoin ended up being, and Finney's Reusable Proof of Work "RPOW" tokens. Finney hadn't solved the centralization issue, and Szabo hadn't solved the issue of better computation causing supply inflation over time, but they were collectively within shooting range of the solution. Others as well. Meanwhile global bandwidth was getting better, encryption in general was getting better (and there we've got an actual intelligence agency contribution), etc.

And then Satoshi added to that work, including the difficulty adjustment in particular and many other details, with a full implementation.

Basically, if someone thinks that Bitcoin just kind of magically came out of nowhere, then it's pretty easy to see how they'd be inclined toward a conspiratorial assumption.

However, if one sees that, just like any other industry, there was a series of engineers building on each others' work until someone finally got it over the line, then it looks a lot more organic.

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When my Dad first bought bitcoin, I wrote this with him in mind .. maybe your Mum will find it useful too 🤝

Omg my mom bought her first Bitcoin yesterday!